After four podcasts, 140 hours of interviews and one report, the Rape Crisis Oral Herstories project came to a close in July 2025.
The Oral Herstory project was launched in 2023 to celebrate and honour Rape Crisis’s 50-year legacy of feminist resistance, solidarity and support, by recording important voices from across our network.
The result was 140 hours of audio interviews capturing the remarkable stories of a diverse selection of experiences from women across England and Wales, who were all united in one goal: to end sexual violence by building the Rape Crisis movement.
These fascinating interviews with over 35 women, spanning Rape Crisis founders and staff to volunteers and survivors, are now preserved in the British Library Sound Archive, where they will be held as an archive accessible to the public from 2027.
Find out more about the Oral Herstories project
You can find out more about the Oral Herstory project on our website, through our podcast, and a members-only report which offers interview summaries, extracts and key insights into the project.
- What is the oral herstory project? - Find out more on our website
- Herstory - 50 Years of Rape Crisis - Listen to a four-part series that follows the creation of Rape Crisis, as told by the women who were there
- Rape Crisis: Exploring the Herstories and Futures of the Movement - Download a members-only report summarising the findings of the project.
- A new oral ‘herstory’ archive and podcast - Read more on the British Library website
Oral Herstories was made possible thanks to support from our partners at the British Library and Oxford University’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
