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As a Research Unit our mission was to explore new ways of understanding change through oral history and to harness the power of the Internet in presenting oral testimony in the virtual museum environment.
We also conducted special projects.The Centre for the History Of Defence Electronics, CHiDE, was the embryo of the Research Unit. Follow the link on the left to find out about the history of CHiDE and the work that has been achieved.
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The History of Technology Research Unit is located in the School of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University. This site is particularly interesting for its collection and presentation of the oral history of technology in the twentieth century. The authors had an ongoing project on the history of military electronics, and had conducted dozens of interviews on various consumer and industrial technologies which changed the lives of many in the last century. An online entry form allows visitors to record their own memories of using twentieth-century technologies such as the washing machine and television. The site also contains a geographical map of museums dedicated to preserving old machines and technologies.