This role is supported by The Canterbury Journey, which aims to engage new, hard-to-reach and diverse audiences with heritage and the collections through the Activity Plan.

The Oral History Transcriber is key to unlocking Canterbury Cathedral’s living community archive. These roles will collate people’s experiences and memories of the Cathedral and city through wide ranging interviews. The interviews will focus on the way the Cathedral has influenced the lives of those interviewed.

The Oral History Interviewers conduct interviews that allow a person to tell their own story in their own words, subsequently the Oral History Transcribers will use their transcription skills to write up the interviews by listening to those that have been recorded by others.

The time it takes to transcribe each interview will vary. It is unlikely that a recorded interview will be less than an hour in duration. Transcribing will take several hours per hour of recorded interview.