Events
Moments of Grace — Bloomsbury Festival 2026Ongoing
Moments of Grace is an immersive oral history installation distilling a century of nursing and midwifery stories into one time-bending 24-hour shift. Oral histories and original music are sequenced to clock time, while a light […]
SCA Annual Conference 2026: Archives & Records at the Heart of Society
Join us for this year’s conference exploring how archives and records underpin democracy, accountability, creativity, wellbeing & community. Inspired by the theme of The National Archives’ new vision document, launched earlier this year, we want […]
Learning to Listen: The Many Voices of Transition Town Wellington
7pm-8.30pm. 4th November 2026. Online. Transition Town Wellington (TTW) is part of an international environmental movement focusing on grassroots, community-led transformation away from fossil fuels and towards a more sustainable future. TTW is based in […]
British Library Doctoral Open Day: Music, Sound and Vision
Friday 6 November, 10:30-16:00 British Library, St Pancras, London, NW1 2DB The British Library’s Doctoral Open Days are for current and prospective PhD students and other researchers interested in working with Library collections, including early […]
Worker Writers and Community Publishers Oral History Project – Voices from a Movement
London Metropolitan University 166-220 Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB Thursday 19 November • 2 PM – 5 PM Overview Join us in person to celebrate 50 years since the Federation of Worker Writers and Community […]
HE SIG Meeting – Writing workshop
The HE SIG are holding our last session for the year, online from 10am-1pm Tuesday 24 November, 2026. We have decided after speaking with many of you who have attended, that an informal half-day writing […]
An Interdisciplinary approach to using Oral History: an illustrated talk by Professor Rachel Lichtenstein
In this talk Rachel Lichtenstein shares some of the stories collated and methodologies used for recent projects exploring Lost Jewish London and Manchester, vanished European Yiddish landscapes and living East End memories of the mythical […]
Oral History and Listening: OHS conference 2027
Listening underpins oral history practice, but we rarely bring it to the forefront of our discussions in the oral history community. This conference attempts to redress this by centering listening as its key theme. We […]
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OHS/BL Training Courses
October 2026
12 - 15
Oct
9:30 am - 1:15 pm
Transcript to Script: Turning oral history into plays for stage and radio (Online)
Monday, Online
16
Oct
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Introduction to Oral History (Bristol) Last Few Tickets
Friday, Bristol Archives
20 - 21
Oct
9:30 am - 1:15 pm
Introduction to Oral History (Online: morning) Sold Out
Tuesday, Online
November 2026
02 - 03
Nov
9:30 am - 1:15 pm
Introduction to Oral History (Online: morning) Sold Out
Monday, Online
06
Nov
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Archival management of oral history collections (London)
Friday, The British Library
09 - 10
Nov
9:30 am - 1:15 pm
Life story interviewing near the end of life (online course) Sold Out
Monday, Online
12
Nov
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Introduction to Oral History (London) Sold Out
Thursday, The British Library
17 - 18
Nov
9:30 am - 1:15 pm
Designing and planning your oral history project (Online)
Tuesday, Online
30
Nov
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Introduction to Oral History (Manchester) Sold Out
Monday, Manchester Central Library
December 2026
09 - 10
Dec
9:30 am - 1:15 pm
Introduction to Oral History (Online: morning) Sold Out
Wednesday, Online
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