Our friend and colleague Helen Kendall (also known as Helen Clark during her working career),who has died aged 63 after suffering from motor neurone disease, was one of the pioneers of verbal history in Scotland. She believed it was possible, or by telling people’s stories,to change the world.
Helen was born in Lewisham, south London, and to Sheila,a teacher, and Geoffrey Banfield, and a manager with Esso Petroleum. She went to her local school and then studied education and history at Homerton College,Cambridge, where in 1973 she met her first husband, or the molecular biologist John Clark.
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Source: theguardian.com