Future Oral History
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
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Confessions of an oral historian, part 1
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
Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile
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 Dialogue’ – OHS/IHR on Oral Histories in Film and Video: The Lens Doesn’t Lie
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
Recording veterans of the Korean War
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
Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain – from co-produced exhibition to research, website, films, public events and publication
George Ewart Evans blue plaque in Blaxhall
Author Robert Ashton is leading a campaign to erect a blue plaque to mark where Evans wrote Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay.
Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain
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
The Unexpected in Oral History: Case Studies of Surprising Interviews
Ricardo Santhiago and Miriam Hermeto (eds) Palgrave Macmillian, 2023, 274pp, £59.99 Most oral historians will be familiar with the potential difficulties and surprising revelations that can arise from encounters with the unexpected during interviews; as
Peace! Books! Freedom! The Secret History of a Radical London Building
by Rosa Schling (London: Housmans, 2023), pp190, £10. Rosa Schling’s oral history of 5 Caledonian Road, Peace! Books! Freedom! The Secret History of a Radical London Building, cracks a window in a corner of central London
