An online meeting of the OHS’ Environment and Climate Change Special Interest Group Open to all Speaker: Molly Graham, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States Molly Graham, of the National Oceanic
Is nostalgia really a problem? Drawing on oral histories from Bradford, this post explores how nostalgia works as evidence, not error.
An ONLINE event Dr Toby Butler and Dr Saskia Papadakis from Royal Holloway, University of London will report on a recently completed three-year project recording 100 life stories for the National Life Stories Collection at
About half a year into my interviews with Aluízio Palmar, a former political prisoner and torture victim, I asked whether he wanted to co-author the book that I was writing about his life. Prior to
by Joana Etchart Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024, 264pp, £92 (hardback), ISBN: 9781802074468 That ‘community relations’ are a problem in Northern Ireland, and that the problem requires the balm of policy, has been a hegemonic
An online presentation by Kathryn Nasstrom A meeting of the OHS’ Environment and Climate Change Special Interest Group This presentation is situated at the juncture of two important trends in recent oral history research: 1-
Who am I? – was the question posed at a recent theatre production by Mukul and Ghetto Tigers, inspired by the stories collected through the oral history project Who am I? – which explored identity and belonging among second-generation
As part of the Oral History Society’s In-Dialogue Series, BBC broadcaster Kavita Puri will be discussing challenges and controversies in making the multi-award-winning radio series ‘Three Million’ about the 1943 Bengal Famine. Date: Tuesday 9
South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, launched in July 2025, is a free online platform that reveals the interconnected, rich presence of South Asians in Britain, spanning from the 1830s to today. A major output of the
As local newspapers across Britain continue to decline, three oral historians have come together to capture the memories and continuing experiences of local and regional journalists across England.
