Memory Line: A history of British computing
Memory Line is a multimedia artwork and oral history project that reflects on the early days of computing and listens to computing veterans who remember their experiences of the memory machine, EDSAC.
Tag: oral history
OHS condemns closure of Memorial International
The Oral History Society joins in the widespread condemnation of the closure of Russia’s International Memorial Organisation. The decision to close ordered by a Russian court on the 28th of December represents an assault on human rights, and in particular an attempt to suppress the Organisation’s significant contribution to the history of the Soviet Union.
The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights: an Intellectual History
Book review: The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights, by Robert Garner and Yewande Okuleye
World AIDS Day: Oral History and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Britain
Oral history has always been at the heart of historical research on HIV/AIDS in Britain, and its popularity as a source for historians of the epidemic continues to grow. To mark World AIDS Day, George Severs charts the history of oral history in HIV/AIDS research and explains why oral history interviews remain so powerful.
“Black history is Welsh history”
How Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales and Welsh Government are working to embed Black History into the story of Wales.
Granadaland: Exploring the world of television through oral history
In the run up to this year’s OHS conference Oral History and the Media, read about Stephen Kelly’s project interviewing over 120 people who used to work for Granada Television.
Climate change affects all of us – but what’s our SIG meant to do?
This is the story of the resurrection of the Environment and Climate Change Special Interest Group of the Oral History Society. But the question that really needed answering was, what is it for?
