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| Company type | Charitable trust and limited company |
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| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Paul Thompson |
| Headquarters | 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB, London , England |
| Website | www |
National Life Stories (NLS) is an independent charitable trust and limited company (registered as the "National Life Story Collection") based within the British Library Oral History section, whose key focus and expertise is oral history fieldwork. Since 1987 National Life Stories (NLS) has initiated a series of innovative interviewing projects funded almost entirely from sponsorship, charitable and individual donations.
Each NLS project is archived at the British Library and comprises recorded in-depth interviews, plus content summaries and (if funds allow) transcripts to assist users. Alongside the British Library's oral history collections, which stretch back to the beginning of the twentieth century,[1] NLS recordings form a unique and invaluable record of people's lives in Britain today.