Membership FAQs
General Membership Queries
You can join OHS by visiting this link or by clicking on JOIN US.
Fill in the online form and then click on “continue to payment” which will direct you to Stripe to enter your payment details. .
When your payment is complete, you will be directed back to the membership login page.
You will then receive a welcoming email from the Oral History Society and, once your payment is complete, an email receipt from Stripe.
You will be able to login immediately to the OHS website using the username and password that you have just created.
If you are unable to login, please reset your password here. You will need access to the email address that you used to register as a member.
If you are unable to login and haven’t accessed the new membership system before, please reset your password here. You will need access to the email address that you used to register as a member. If that email address is no longer accessible to you, please contact us.
Once you have logged in using your email address and password, click on “Manage subscription” to open the billing portal in Stripe.
If you pay by direct debit, then your payment details will already have been imported into Stripe and your subscription renewal will take effect automatically.
Please note: If you have not logged into the website since the new membership subscription system was launched in November 2025, you will need to reset your password here. You will then be able to login to renew your membership.
Once you have logged in using your username and password, click on “account details” and scroll down to update your mailing address.
You can update your email address in the Account Details tab (the 2nd one) in your Members Area dashboard. This will also change the email address you use to log in.
Please note that your billing email address won’t update unless you also update it in Stripe by clicking on the Manage subscription button under the Manage Membership tab.
Group members who are not the billpayer will only be able to change their login address as they cannot access the billing area.
Once you have logged in using your username and password, click on “Manage subscription” to open the billing portal in Stripe. Here you can add a payment method, update your existing payment methods, update your billing details, view your receipts and cancel your subscription.
Once you have logged in using your username and password, click on “Manage subscription” to open the billing portal in Stripe. Click on “cancel subscription”. Your subscription will remain valid until the end of the billing period.
All of our membership plans are recurring annually until cancelled.
You can pay using credit card, debit card, direct debit, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and many other payment methods depending on which country you’re in. We use Stripe to process payments.
Please get in touch with [email protected].
All OHS members can share information with each other in our Members Discussion Group.
Each Special Interest Group of the OHS also has its own discussion group.
You can join by going to https://ohs.org.uk/oral-history-society-discussion-groups/
Group and library subscriptions
No, it is not. A number of organisations use agencies to subscribe to the journal. This will only provide you with printed issues of the Oral History journal for your library. If you wish to access OHS member benefits as an individual or a group, then you will need to purchase an Individual or a Group Membership.
As named members with registered email addresses, you will then have access to:
Past issues of the journal back to 1969
Online discussion groups
Membership of Special Interest Groups
Discounts on training courses and events
The lead person for an OHS group membership can add additional members of the group as sub-members. This will enable them to access members-only parts of the website, back issues of the journal and other member benefits.
In order to activate this feature, you should log in to
https://ohs.org.uk/members to access your Member’s Dashboard. You will see an additional tab titled Manage Group Members. Here, you can add up to 9 additional members to your account by filling in the form. You will also be able to remove existing sub-members you have added in the past, for example, if someone has changed their job role or no longer works for the organisation.
A number of organisations use agencies to subscribe to the journal. This will only provide you with printed issues of the Oral History journal for your library. If you wish to access OHS member benefits as an individual or a group, then you will need to purchase an Individual or a Group Membership.
Payment offline by invoice or bank transfer can be arranged by emailing [email protected]. Please be aware that joining in this way is not immediate as we are a voluntary organisation and do not employ full time staff. You will not be able to access member benefits until the subscription process is completed.
