Sorted, coming soon

Later this year, the Postal Museum in London plan to take part in a project for which they would like our help in recruiting some volunteers.

With funding from the Lottery Heritage Fund and the CWU ‘Sorted’ will be an intergenerational oral history project exploring the experiences of postal workers in London.

With training and support from arts and educational charity, Digitalworks, Year 6 children from two London schools will be exploring this history by conducting and filming oral history interviews with 24 older and retired colleagues to record their working lives.

In depth background research activities, workshops and talks will take place with a historian, at the Postal Museum and at local archives. The project will explore the everyday working lives of people ‘on the post,’ how they got into the job, their family histories, details of their work and social lives, as well as the changing nature of the workforce and technology.

The full interviews will go to local and London-wide archives and the interviews edited to make a documentary film that will be shown at a launch event later this year as well as at schools, libraries and online. The plan is for the film to also be shown on television.

Watch this space for further details. Please note, the Postal Museum is currently closed until further notice.