Memory group interviews using original WRAP material with researcher Ali Ronan

In 2019-2020 the ESRC funded 'Reanimating data: experiments with people, places and archives'. Part of the project involved staging a series of reanimations using data from interviews with young women from Manchester, conducted thirty years previously as part of the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP 1988-1990). This reanimation involved a collaboration between a community memory group and Ali Ronan (historian/youth worker) and used creative methods to explore the WRAP data and help bring it to life in new ways. Ali Ronan, historian and youth worker, leads oral history interviews with elderly Manchester residents who attend the Once Upon a Time community group (Harpurhey) using WRAP interviews as prompts. The interviews are with members of the group who lived in Manchester in 1989 and were in their 40s or 50s at the time WRAP had been conducted. They talk about their experiences of Manchester at this time, prompted by excerpts from WRAP Manchester interviews about place and social class, and sex education.