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It’s that time of year again! The 2013 East Midlands Oral History Day is on the subject of ‘Past, Present & Future’ and will be held at East Midlands Oral History Archive, 1 Salisbury Rd, Leicester on Wednesday 26th June 2013. More details here - http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/news/ohday_2013.html . The 2012 event was on the subject of ‘Telling Stories’. Details of the […]
May 19, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
University of Warwick’s Oral History Network is organising a Webinar with the Warwick-Monash PhD Collabration Team to take place on 3 June, 9.30-11am in Ramphal R0.12. Our two invited speakers Dr. Laura King (Leeds University) and Dr. Karin Eli (Oxford University) will talk about oral history and medical anthropology. Laura King is a historian of fatherhood and masculinity in twentieth-century […]
April 30, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
History at the University of Huddersfield invites applications for a fully-funded 3-year PhD studentship in public or community or oral history. In addition to fees (at Home/EU rate), the studentship will be funded at RCUK rates, £13,726 in 2013-14. The University of Huddersfield also has a generous package of research development funds for research students […]
April 29, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
The Oral History Society have a wonderful new website! Check it out at http://www.ohs.org.uk/.
April 24, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
The History of Parliament is looking for Oral Historians with a good knowledge of British politics to act as volunteer interviewers for our Oral History project. Since autumn 2011, The History of Parliament Trust has been working with the Oral History Society and The British Library on this project to record the reminiscences of former […]
April 15, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Power and Democracy: The Many Voices of Oral History XVIIIth International Oral History Association, Barcelona, Spain - 9-12 of July 2014 The International Oral History Association will hold its next meeting in Spain at the University of Barcelona, July 9-12, 2014 (master classes will be held on July 8). Its theme will be Power and […]
March 28, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Have you ever wondered how to cite a television advert? Or what about an extra from a DVD? Do you ever need to provide advice to students or contributors about how to reference audiovisual content within their own work? The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) has today launched a pioneering set of guidelines to help answer all these […]
March 23, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Eastside Community Heritage are celebrating Women’s History Month (March 2013). We’ll be sharing the stories of women who’ve fought against racism in East London, in their own words. Half the Battle will draw from oral history interviews with local activists who have been involved with groups such as Rock Against Racism and Unite Against Fascism. History […]
March 10, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
This 30-part series explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. Recorded on location around the world and featuring treasures from the British Library’s Sound Archive, it takes us from prehistory to the present, encompassing the shamanistic music of our cave-dwelling ancestors, the babel of ancient Rome, the massacre of noisy […]
February 7, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Notice from Social History Society Bulletin Board: A group of historians based at the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow are currently embarking on a project to interview men who were in reserved occupations in Britain during the Second World War. We feel that these men made an immense contribution to […]
January 18, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Special issue Memory Studies Vol. 6.1, January 2013: Challenging dominant discourses of the past: 1968 and the value of oral history This special issue – with case studies from France, Germany, UK and Italy – explores different trajectories and narratives of 1968. Through the application of oral history methodology, it creates a more inclusive and complex […]
November 2, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Here’s a little Friday treat for you all… The Oxford Handbook of Oral History is newly out in paperback and, after some hard negotiations with Oxford University Press (well, an email…), The Oral History Noticeboard is delighted to offer blog readers a fabulous 20% off! Paperback RRP Price: £32.50 but for you, dear readers, just £26.00 (incl. free P&P on orders […]
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 […]
October 18, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Are you interested in the Cold War history of the 1940s and early ’50s? We are looking for committed volunteers of all ages and experience who can assist in collecting stories and memories of British veterans of the 1948 Berlin Airlift. This is a worthwhile new oral history project delivered by Legasee in partnership with […]
October 17, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Hidden Stories, Contested Truths: The Craft of Oral History 2013 OHA Annual Meeting October 29 – November 3, 2013 The Skirvin Hilton Hotel Oklahoma City, OK Deadline: January 18, 2013 The 2013 annual meeting of the Oral History Association will offer an opportunity to showcase the ways in which oral history has been used to […]
September 24, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
The Public History Discussion Group 2012-3 The Autumn of 2012 sees the 15th year of the group from its start at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1998. This is the second year of meeting at the Bishopsgate Institute in London at 230 Bishopsgate, EC2M 4QH. http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/ This is a few minutes walk from Liverpool Street station […]
September 16, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
This year’s seminar programme for the Oral History Seminars, jointly organised by the Oral History Society and Institute for Historical Research, has now been confirmed. All dates and details can be found at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/325
September 11, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
What bonds us to a certain place? Born and Bred – Stories of Holloway Road is an oral history project that focuses on the cultural heritage of Holloway Road in Islington. Through photography, illustration and oral history, Born and Bred captures the living memories of people who live or work in the area and were […]
May 23, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
‘Playback’ is a social media network that welcomes anyone with a professional or personal interest in sound and sound recording. The aim is to make this site a vibrant forum where members can connect with like-minded individuals, share knowledge and discuss current topics relevant to the fields of audio recording, composition, archiving, engineering, research and […]
April 21, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Just a note to mark the first anniversary of The Oral History Noticeboard. Happy 1st Birthday to us! I set up the blog in April 2011, and since then it’s really taken off. The blog has more than 60 subscribers and has received more than 14,500 15,000 hits from visitors from 87 countries. The reason I started the […]
April 19, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
The 1950s saw a major shift in the lifestyles of many in Britain. The austerity that had dogged the 1940s after the end of the Second World War began to give way to better times. Employment levels rose to new heights, white consumer goods appeared in shop windows for the first time, television replaced the […]
March 23, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
The British Library Sounds has a new website that lets you listen to 50,000 tracks of music, spoken word and environments, dating from the 1900s to the present day. You can also browse very popular sound maps including dialects from all over Britain and thousands of nature sounds The website is a taste of the Library’s […]
February 21, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Notice from http://www.oralhistory.org/ Across the country and throughout the world, grade to graduate school teachers, professors, and program coordinators are integrating oral history into their pedagogical practice. In order to capture the transformative power of oral history as an educational methodology, the Oral History Review, the journal of the Oral History Association, dedicated its Winter/Spring 2011 issue […]
February 16, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Ronald Fraser, distinguished historian of Spain, author of In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes, Blood Of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War , Work: Twenty Personal Accounts, and In Search of the Past, and ‘one of the masters of oral history’, has died. An obituary by Tariq Ali was in The Guardian yesterday. For those with access […]
December 24, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
Happy Christmas and Festivities, Everyone! Here are some short Christmas reunion stories to make you feel all warm and fuzzy by flavour of the month writer Craig Taylor (author of Londoners): http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/23/heathrow-airport-family-friends-reunions
December 22, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has recently annouced it has an increased budget for new awards in 2012-13 of £375million, an increase of of £120million from the 2011-2012 budget. The increase is because HLF now receive a greater proportion of the National Lottery good causes money, and lottery ticket sale shave increased. There are a number of increases in the different types of grants […]
December 16, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
The Scottish Labour History Society has recently published a volume focussing on oral history. The Society was formed in 1961 and to celebrate their 50th anniversary, they have devoted the current issue of the journal, Scottish Labour History (Volume 46) to oral history. The content includes an introduction to the journal, Fiftieth Anniversary Guest Editorial: Working Class History and the People’s Voice […]
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 […]
September 19, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
This post is another article signposting, this time to a piece in The Wall Street Journal. With the considerable rise in using oral history as a way to write “popular” and accessible histories of people, trends, events and phenomena, and in this case, music, Mark Yarm, author of the well-received Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History […]
May 23, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
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