The National Union of Journalists is planning to celebrate its centenary with an oral history of the organisation.

The union has teamed up with the department of journalism at Liverpool John Moores University and will produce a website looking back at its work over the past 100 years, which will be unveiled at next year's NUJ Annual Conference.

It is hoped the website will include memories from members of the NUJ, including former presidents, general secretaries, industrial leaders and working journalists, as well as looking at how the media has changed over the past century.

Staff and students from the university will interview key members from the NUJ, and the union is also looking for members who would like to help by interviewing retired members, or members with a story to tell, in their branch or local area.

Chris Frost, head of journalism at John Moores and a former NUJ president, said: "This is a very exciting project that should help us to record the last 50 years or so of journalism and the NUJ – 50 years that have seen some enormous changes.

"We hope that NUJ members will be keen to get involved and help build the resource by interviewing people in their local branches."

The project will also create a series of papers, to be held by the university, analysing the experiences of marginalized groups such as women and ethnic minorities.

The findings will be cross-indexed to provide a database detailing significant events, people and places that had a particular importance and effect on the last century of journalism.

Anyone willing to help with the project can contact Zoë Alker on Z.Alker@ljmu.ac.uk.