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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 […]
March 22, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Article and comments on buying cheapest oral history recording equipment, from The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/askjack/2013/mar/21/which-voice-recorder-capture-parents-history
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. […]
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 […]
January 24, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Reblogged from Helen Gibb: Last Friday was a rather bittersweet day for me. Since March 2012 I've been making regular trips to Nottingham as a volunteer on the 'Story of the Croft' project. Eager for some practical experience working on an oral history project, I offered my skills to Emma Golby-Kirk of Now Heritage. 10 […]
January 6, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Article: Doug Boyd and the Power of Digital Oral History in the 21st Century by Mike Ashenfelder on Library of Congress blog http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/01/doug-boyd-and-the-power-of-digital-oral-history-in-the-21st-century/
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 […]
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 […]
October 28, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
The Oral History Society is seeking feedback and comment about new digital guidelines introduced by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The guidelines are online and downloadable from HLF’s website: http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/furtherresources/Pages/Thinkingaboutgooddigitalpractice.aspx#.UI1ZI8VnRBk If you have any comments about the guidelines, either in principle or practice, please email OHS secretary Rob Perks at rob.perks@bl.uk by the end of […]
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 […]
November 16, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
This just a signposting blogpost today to point out a short article that appeared in the US version of “The Daily” (the News Corporation’s iPad newspaper) on 7th November 2011. It contains a few interesting snipppets from the authors/ compilers of recent and popular oral history books. From the AIDS crisis to the birth of punk, to tales from the […]
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 […]
June 1, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
I’ve recently had a short stint of teaching a course in community oral history to business undergraduates at an international university in London. So I thought I’d continue the theme of teaching and oral history from yesterday’s post and kick-start the ‘experience-sharing’ part of the blog with some comments (and sounds) on how I went about introducing oral history to these business students, […]
Gove & History Teaching: Should oral history be on the National Curriculum?
April 30, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
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When Michael Gove announced the new draft national curriculum it included a new approach to history teaching. As he stated in Parliament, this approach to teaching history would include: ‘a clear narrative of British progress with a proper emphasis on heroes and heroines from our past’. This has had its cheerleaders, such as Niall Ferguson, […]