Expect the Unexpected You never know what’s going to happen when you visit someone’s house or another venue for an interview. I could bore you to death with memories of unusual television interviews I’ve done (for
This blog looks at the Sounds for the Future audio preservation project. It describes the work involved, emphasises how long cataloguing can take, warns about the cost of keeping playback equipment running, and shares the fun of outreach sessions.
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
Cats and Dogs It’s a straightforward business this oral history. Not much to worry about. You just set up your recorder and carry out your interview. But, of course, it’s not. For a start, background
Edited by Thomas Wright and Rody Oñate, and translated by Irene Hodgson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2023 (2nd edition), 278pp, £21, paperback Alongside executions, disappearance and torture, exile was one of the tactics of
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
The role of British soldiers in the Korean War which lasted from 1950 to 1953 has been largely forgotten in this country whereas in America there are massive libraries of oral interviews with their servicemen.
Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain – from co-produced exhibition to research, website, films, public events and publication
Author Robert Ashton is leading a campaign to erect a blue plaque to mark where Evans wrote Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay.
by Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips Mudlark, 2023, 432pp, £12.99, paperback It is often forgotten that when Mike and Trevor Phillips began work on Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain in the mid-1990s, ‘Windrush was not
