Rob Perks writes: Fifty years ago an eclectic group gathered in York to form the Oral History Society. They declared that the ‘interview method presents a tremendous opportunity for historians’ and that ‘oral history is
Thea Thompson describes Raphael Samuel and his approach to life and work.
Alun Howkins describes George Ewart Evans, his relationship with Paul Thompson and connections to Welsh poets Iorwerth Peate and Keidrych Rhys.
A few months ago I was invited by fellow freelancers to join a panel at the Oral History Society Conference entitled ‘My Life as an Oral Historian’. I was looking forward to talking about the
Sheffield’s National Emergency Services Museum has been evolving into a centre for research. And oral history is on the agenda.
Image: The Toulouse en transition movement participates in the Climate March in 2021 The South-West France in Transition network held its first meeting in 2018 at the initiative of the Haute-Garonne and Gironde transition groups,
Featured image: The Appalachians, courtesy of vt.edu Jessica Taylor has been conducting interviews in the Appalachian mountains of the Eastern United States. A region that has fueled the United States’s twentieth-century industrialization and militarization through its
In Bergen the pilot project is a Nordic collaboration. We plan to investigate people’s thoughts of the future using life stories from Bergen and Gothenburg. Internationally, the total collection forms part of the Oral History
My name is Kelly Hydrick. I am Program Manager at Climate Stories Project, where I’m the lead instructor for the online Climate Stories Ambassador program. The Ambassador program provides education and support to diverse participants as
Transition Town Wellington has gone from strength to strength over its 16 year history. This small town on the border of Somerset and Devon has seen its green spaces turn into herb beds, forest gardens,
