$$$$
{{ $t($store.state.user.experience_value_in_dollars) }}
Expert
{{ $t($store.state.user.experience_search_name) }}
0
jobs
Strong feature and copywriting skills, with a specialism in social history and storytelling skills.
Marsha O'Mahony
,
Park Street, United Kingdom
Experience
Other titles
Skills
I'm offering
I am the seventh child of nine born to a large Irish family. When I was 21 I decided it was time to see a bit of the world, and set off, not returning for another four years. In that time, I filled shampoo bottles in Sydney, waitressed in a cocktail bar in an opal mining town, attempted teaching English in far-flung places like Hong Kong, Japan and Nepal, and even ended up in Tashkent on my way back to England, courtesy of Aeroflot.
I studied Anthropology & Politics at University, gaining a First-Class Honours and First Prize and publication of my dissertation, an examination of the Burakumin, Japan’s ‘underclass’. I was set on the path of PhD glory, when I won a scholarship to study for my MA in Anthropology & Development.
I am currently project managing an oral history of the Gwent Levels for the Living Levels Partnership. Alongside this, I have been commissioned to write a book on the social history of the hop, which is due to be launched in October 2020. But there is more. I settled in Herefordshire in 1996 and I have two children, who have now flown the nest. I have worked as a reporter on weekly and daily newspapers, am author and contributing writer to a number of books, a commissioned memoir writer, report writer, blogger, chief researcher and oral historian on a series of documentary film projects, one-time community reporter for BBC Radio Wales, reminiscence session worker, freelance journalist with features in national publications (The Guardian, The Field, BBC Countryfile), and a ‘performed’ playwright. I have also led and designed the Heritage Lottery-funded project, ‘River Voices: Extraordinary Stories from the Wye’, and appeared with the book of the same title at Hay Literary Festival 2019.
In the course of my career, I have interviewed a huge number of people, from farmers, MPs, teenage mothers, poachers, bailiffs, nuns, and the last man born on St Kilda!
I studied Anthropology & Politics at University, gaining a First-Class Honours and First Prize and publication of my dissertation, an examination of the Burakumin, Japan’s ‘underclass’. I was set on the path of PhD glory, when I won a scholarship to study for my MA in Anthropology & Development.
I am currently project managing an oral history of the Gwent Levels for the Living Levels Partnership. Alongside this, I have been commissioned to write a book on the social history of the hop, which is due to be launched in October 2020. But there is more. I settled in Herefordshire in 1996 and I have two children, who have now flown the nest. I have worked as a reporter on weekly and daily newspapers, am author and contributing writer to a number of books, a commissioned memoir writer, report writer, blogger, chief researcher and oral historian on a series of documentary film projects, one-time community reporter for BBC Radio Wales, reminiscence session worker, freelance journalist with features in national publications (The Guardian, The Field, BBC Countryfile), and a ‘performed’ playwright. I have also led and designed the Heritage Lottery-funded project, ‘River Voices: Extraordinary Stories from the Wye’, and appeared with the book of the same title at Hay Literary Festival 2019.
In the course of my career, I have interviewed a huge number of people, from farmers, MPs, teenage mothers, poachers, bailiffs, nuns, and the last man born on St Kilda!
Markets
United Kingdom
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2005 - ?
job
Contributing researcher, writer, and interviewer
Herefordshire Lore, Herefordshire's.
Researcher
2018 - 2020
job
Lead oral historian/author of the Gwent Living Levels Project
unknown.
2015 - 2019
job
Chief Oral Historian, researcher & blogger
Catcher Media.
Heritage Lottery Funded HLF- Herefordshire life through a lens' series of documentary films 2015 - 2019
Blogger, Researcher
2017 - 2018
job
Oral Historian/Chief Researcher/Blogger
Arts Council England-funded.
writer-in-residence at residential home, working with residents suffering from a variety of neuro-degenerative illnesses 2017/2018
- Oral Historian/Chief Researcher/Blogger for documentary film makers Catcher Media: https://www.herefordshirelifethroughalens.org.uk
- Oral Historian/Chief Researcher/Blogger for documentary film makers Catcher Media: https://www.herefordshirelifethroughalens.org.uk
Movie, Blogger, Researcher
2017 - 2018
job
Project manager and oral historian on 'River Voices
Extraordinary Stories.
- Reminiscence worker at Herefordshire care homes
- Writer/interviewer 'Shared Past/Shared Future', an oral history of Polish war veterans settled in UK post WWII
- Writer/interviewer 'Shared Past/Shared Future', an oral history of Polish war veterans settled in UK post WWII
Project Manager, Manager
2016 - 2018
job
Privately commissioned memoirist
WWII.
2018
- Blogger: Cartographic Loveletters; Herefordshire Life Through a Lens
- Blogger: Cartographic Loveletters; Herefordshire Life Through a Lens
Blogger
2016 - 2017
job
Playwright
About Face Theatre Company, Courtyard Theatre.
- Press/communications LOOK-UK March 2016 - 2017
- Playwright: 'Moondrops', Birmingham MAC July 2007; 'Rickety Tickety Tin', About Face Theatre Company, Courtyard Theatre, Hereford, 2006.
Oral Historian:
- Playwright: 'Moondrops', Birmingham MAC July 2007; 'Rickety Tickety Tin', About Face Theatre Company, Courtyard Theatre, Hereford, 2006.
Oral Historian:
Mac
2014 - 2016
job
Senior Reporter Gloucester Citizen
unknown.
2009 - 2014
job
Senior Reporter and Deputy Editor with the Ross Gazette
unknown.
2011 - 2013
job
Writer/Researcher/blogger
unknown.
Blogger, Researcher
My education
1991
-
1994
n/a
Bachelors, Social Anthropology & Politics
Bachelors, Social Anthropology & Politics
Marsha's reviews
Marsha has not received any reviews on Worksome.
Contact Marsha O'Mahony
Worksome removes the expensive intermediaries and gives you direct contact with relevant talent.
Create a login and get the opportunity to write to Marsha directly in Worksome.
38000+ qualified freelancers
are ready to help you
Tell us what you need help with
and get specific bids from skilled talent in Denmark