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28/02/2013
The last seminar was led by Anindya Raychaudhuri, a post-doctoral fellow at St Andrews University, who talked about his research into the Indian partition. The partition in 1947 was perhaps the single largest migration in human history, with 15 million people crossing borders between India, Pakistan and what is now Bangladesh, and 2 million killed. […]
30/01/2013
Guest post by Alex Henry: Everyone has a story, or two, or three to tell. And one way to make people’s stories heard is through digital storytelling. This is a process where groups work together, provide peer support and share experiences with one another to create their own personal digital stories. The participants’ experience in […]
20/12/2012
In the second of this academic year’s Oral History Society and Institute of Historical Research seminars on December 13th, Lynn Abrams, professor of gender history at Glasgow University, spoke about her oral history interviews with women born in the 1940s, focusing on two ways of interpreting their narratives. Abrams (right), who is also the author […]
23/11/2012
Earlier this month, thirty Oral History Society regional networkers attended their annual meeting at the University of Leicester. The theme of the event, hosted by Colin Hyde and Cynthia Brown, was Celebrating anniversaries using oral history: creative ideas & outputs. Colin talked about the East Midlands Oral History Archive project Migration Stories, which focuses on the […]
08/11/2012
The first Oral History Society and Institute of Historical Research seminar of the academic year took place on November 1st, led by Professor Paul Thompson of the University of Essex. Thompson, who was founding editor of the Oral History journal and founder of National Life Stories at the British Library, talked about his work interviewing […]
16/07/2012
More than 70 delegates from around the world met at the Oral History Society’s annual conference in Southampton on 13th and 14th July. The theme of this year’s conference was Displaced childhoods: Oral History and traumatic experiences and papers focused on a range of subjects: from the effects of growing up in care; to the […]
17/05/2012
Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Children’s Lives is the first major project in Birmingham and the West Midlands to consider children’s lived experiences from the 18th century to the present day. The project consists of a series of interrelated activities, including an exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, and draws on the nationally […]
04/12/2011
Guest Post by Cynthia Brown Last month 35 oral historians got together in Ipswich for the Oral History Society‘s annual regional networkers event. The event, organised by regional network co-ordinator Juliana Vandegrift, enables the society’s network of oral historians around the country to get together, share stories and catch up both on personal and society […]
27/09/2011
Wendy Ugolini, history lecturer at Edinburgh University and Oral History Society committee member, talks about her new book: “Having started my oral history research on the experiences of Italians in Scotland during the Second World War many years ago, it is immensely satisfying to see the final version published as part of Manchester University Press’s […]
Seminar Review: Subjectivity and gender in oral history
12/04/2013
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Penny Summerfield (pictured below), professor of modern history at Manchester University, led the latest Oral History Society/Institute of Historical Research joint seminar, focusing on oral history, subjectivity and gender. Prof Summerfield, author of the book Reconstructing Women’s Wartime Lives, began her seminar by talking about the work of oral history scholars such as Alessandro Portelli and […]