Last Saturday a group from the Friends of Willow Court and one member of the Willow Court History Group went for a day training session at the Glenorchy Linc. The training was provided by “Oral History Tasmania” who have a high standard of professionalism and ethics when recording the stories of Tasmanian’s and is a part of the national group, Oral History Australia Inc.
The Friends of Willow Court are members of Oral History Tasmania and have been part of the recording history project that the Willow Court History Group have been a part of for the past 3 years. We have accumulated many hours of podcasts across of broad spectrum of the history at Willow Court, Royal Derwent Hospital and Lachlan Park Hospital.
When gathering Oral History recordings we have been abiding by the “Oral History Australia Inc.” Guidelines of ethical practice. We have recorded oral history from 1938 to the closure in 2000. This has been lived experience from patients, all levels of care staff, trades persons and senior management.
We are looking for people who are able to contribute to the oral history repository of Willow Court. We need more people who experienced being a patient, senior policy makers, cleaners, Millbrook Rise staff and patients, Parents and Friends Association, Community support organisations and people who may have been regular visitors at the site. We also have an interest in finding more Doctors, senior and junior nursing staff who worked on the east side of the Royal Derwent Hospital and I’m sure I have missed many areas of the history so please contact us at:
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Hi – just came across your wonderful web site. Can you tell me if these OH recordings are available as an MP3 download, and if so how do I do this on your site.
We will have permission to share some soon, until then please find the audio section under the media tab. You will find audio and film there.
Sorry theses recordings are not downloadable at the moment. The speaker owns the copyright and gives us a limited release which is negotiated.