Royal Holloway, University of London (United Kingdom).
Dr. Toby Butler is a public historian with a wide-ranging skill set developed in higher education, the third sector and the media industry. Currently he is Reader in Geography at Royal Holloway University where he is a leading a project on the Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK from 1970-2020 in partnership with National Life Stories at the British Library.
He has devised collaborative oral history projects in India, the USA, Wales, and England. He has created oral history trails along the River Thames with the Museum of London and several London parks for local authorities. He was project director for the “Ports of Call” project at the Royal Docks in East London to map and historically interpret the working history of the area. Dr. Butler is also a Director of LivingMaps Network, an editor of History Workshop Journal and recently worked on the Mapping Museums project at Birkbeck, University of London, to map of all the museums in the UK from 1960-present featuring interviews with 57 museum founders that featured Stories from Small Museums.