Speakers: Timothy Cooper and Harley Dyson This presentation tries to outline the oral history of the oil spill in contemporary history since the Torrey Canyon disaster of 1967. Drawing on both original interviews and archive
An OHS Festival Special Online Event Ticket Information Free to OHS members Free to Oral History Festival delegates £4 to Non-members This special online event, part of the OHS Oral History Festival, explores the challenges
by David F Elmer and Peter McMurray (eds) Harvard University Press, 2024, 524pp, £33.95, paperback The essays collected in Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century originated in a 2010 conference markingthe fiftieth anniversary of Albert Lord’s hugely influential The Singer of Tales, and
Notes from the OHS Regional Network event, 2 March 2024 In March 2024 the Oral History Society Network of Regional Advisers held its annual event at the University of Leicester, hosted by Colin Hyde, manager
OHS AGM. Join us this year for short presentations from our Special Interest Groups covering: LGBTQ+, Archives, Climate Change, Higher Education, Migration, and Creative Oral History (https://ohs.org.uk/special-interests/). And to hear audio highlights from our OHS@50
In this tenth edition of the In Dialogue series, first established in 2022, our guest speakers Danaé Wellington and Milton Brown will be reflecting on the use of oral history in Film and Video. This will be
CLICK HERE TO BOOK A PLACE JOIN US FOR A DAY OF REFLECTION, LISTENING, CONVERSATION AND PARTICIPATION Pigott Theatre, Knowledge Centre, British Library, London NW12DB Saturday 06 July 2024 Doors Open: 9:00 Starts: 9:30 Hosted
At the OHS committee meeting held on Friday 8th December 2023, the Trustees agreed to the following statement on the destruction of libraries and archives in Gaza. The statement will be posted on our website and sent
by Pam Fox Valentine Mitchell, 2022, 400pp, £19.95, softback Pam Fox’s informative, well-researched and entertaining book provides a detailed picture of Jewish holidaymaking at Bournemouth, and the guesthouses and hotels that have hosted varying numbers of
Today is the Oral History Society’s fiftieth birthday. All ‘significant’ birthdays deserve celebrating and all year we’ve been reflecting on what the Society has achieved over its first five decades, what we’ve learnt, and how
