digital-works is an arts and education charity dedicated to social history and community voice. We specialise in high-quality media production — including documentary film, podcasts, and photography — with a focus on participation and co-creation.
Our Core Expertise:
Oral History: We are experts in capturing lived experiences, ensuring the voices of under-represented communities are recorded and shared widely.
Media Production: We translate those stories into compelling documentary films and podcasts designed for wide public engagement.
Training: Our experienced team provide skills training through highly regarded workshops in video production, audio recording, and oral history interview techniques.
Over the years we have completed many wonderful projects covering dozens of subjects, and had the pleasure of interviewing hundreds of incredible people. Subjects we have explored include various types of work in London, neighbourhoods, political campaigns, leisure, music and housing. In the process we have found ourselves in dusty workshops in Hatton Garden and Savile Row, trudging through mud, or sitting on boats on the River Thames, riding on Routemaster buses, taxi cabs and trains, in inspiring youth and community centres and in breweries and jazz clubs.
In the process we have worked with hundreds of volunteers, dozens of historians, academics and archivists.
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From centuries old traditions to post-war modernisation, baking in London has seen the evolution of multi-generational, and multi-cultural bakeries with traditional overnight baking methods shifting to more modern practices and a recent rise of smaller craft and artisan bakeries. This oral history project works with students from the National Bakery School and is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Bakers Hall.
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Walter Greaves, the often‑overlooked artist who recorded the old Chelsea before the building of the Embankment. Greaves was not only an artist; he was part of a working river community at a time when Chelsea was changing fast from the busy, muddy foreshore of the nineteenth century. This project sees Year 5 Children from Christ Church and Holy Trinity schools interview a range of experts and historians to capture Walter Greaves life and times. Digital-works is working alongside RBKC Archives in their National Lottery Heritage Funded project.
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Beale and Inman master tailors, dressed London from New Bond Street for over 150 years, from circa 1828 to 1980. This project aims to conserve and celebrate the legacy of Beale and Inman and their archives by engaging local communities through fashion, heritage and sustainability. Digital-works is engaged in documenting this through oral history interviews, interviews with conservators and those involved in a collaboration between SEN and London College of Fashion students who are being introduced to the textile industry through practical experience in design and sustainable practices.
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For 77 years, Thursday nights in Wimbledon were all about the roar of engines and the smell of methanol. The Wimbledon Dons weren't just a speedway team; they were a British institution. At their peak, they drew crowds of over 30,000 to Plough Lane with a family atmosphere that made Wimbledon Stadium such a special place. Funded by Merton Culture and Heritage Arts Programme and supported by Wimbledon in Sporting History and The Dons Den.
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With the “Holiday with Pay Act” of 1938 began a whole new leisure industry as Londoners began taking vacations at holiday camps such as Butlins, Pontins and Warners as well as the trade union run camps. With gorgeous archive footage listen to stories of family holidays, romance and more! Funded byTha National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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Railway workers at Kings Cross Station tell stories from their working lives from the age of steam to the super fast trains of today. Drivers, guards, cooks, firemen, station announcers and more talk about their work, the skills, the joys and pain and the camaraderie working at ‘the cross’. Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund with support from ASLEF.
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