Videos tagged with MEMORIES
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Remembering WW2 as a child
Margaret recalls the start of WW2 during her childhood, her relatives moving in during the war and how living in the countryside helped avoid any heavy bombing.
Somalian Civil War: Family Home Looted and Destroyed - Part 3
The Somalian Civil War in 1991 caused chaos and destruction to the lives of millions of Somalians and their families. In Part 3, Muhammed remembers returning home with his family only to find their house had been looted and destroyed by someone from another tribe. Damage was done to the entire property, and most significantly for Muhammad, to his fathers library where his father had a great collection of books and priceless family memories. Watch Part 1: Fleeing Home - http://www.storyvault.com/video/view/somalian_civil_war_forced_to_flee_home_part_11 Watch Part 2: Tribal Conflict - http://www.storyvault.com/video/view/somalian_civil_war_tribal_conflict_part_2
Evolution of Gaming
A look back at one of the the first home games console on the market and the progress the video game industry has made over the years, its current use of technology and what could potentially happen in the future.
Maria's Memories From Her Childhood Home
Maria talks about her times in her childhood home collecting apples and her pets, she also descibes her home and how it was to move house.
AL MURRAY TELLS WHY HE IS HOOKED ON HISTORY AND WHY HE IS SUPPORTING STORYVAULT
Al Murray is best known as "the pub landlord" but what is less well known is that he is a graduate in Modern History from Oxford who has been fascinated by history his whole life. Here he tells why, and why he thinks oral history is so important.
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Secretarial work, typing pools and using the first ever photocopier in the 1950s
Jacki Rogers talks about life during the 1950s training to be a secretary. She recounts her experience learning to type through 'touch type'and going on to work in a busy typing pool. She learned Pitm
Flight of FANY!
During WW2 Elizabeth Ward was a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) working for SOE. By September 1944 she was stationed in Bari, Italy but a back injury meant she'd have to return to Brit
My Grandpa, My Hero: Memories of Monte Cassino
Melissa recalls stories told to her by her Grandpa who served during WWII in the Battle of Monte Cassino, how he won the prestigious Medal of Valor and the heart rendering decision of choosing between
Earliest memory of World's Oldest man
Henry William Allingham was born on 6th June 1896 and, at the time he gave this interview, was a supercentenarian, World War I veteran and at the age of 113 years and 13 days, the oldest living man
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Operation Mincemeat (aka The Man Who Never Was)
Operation Mincemeat was a top secret WW2 deception operation designed to fool the Germans as to where an Allied invasion in the Mediterranean would take place. Patricia Davies worked as a secreta
ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI Part 2
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he talks about being in Nagasaki in 19
ONBOARD HMS COVENTRY JUST BEFORE ATTACK during Falklands War
After HMS Sheffield was hit during the Falklands War, morale onboard HMS Coventry was down...but only for a bit! Coventry and her crew started preparing for further attacks. Here David Wood who serve
LAST TRAIN OUT OF PRAGUE 1939
Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines is from Prague. She came to England in 1939 as one of nearly 700 Jewish children saved from the Nazis by Sir Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker who earned the nickname 'Britain
Secretarial work, typing pools and using the first ever photocopier in the 1950s
Jacki Rogers talks about life during the 1950s training to be a secretary. She recounts her experience learning to type through 'touch type'and going on to work in a busy typing pool. She learned Pitm
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