Resources and Organisations in Britain and Abroad
Since the Oral History Society launched its own website many more oral history groups and organisations, in Britain and abroad, have done likewise. Many more members of the Society now have access to the Internet with email facilities, and are able to explore oral history projects and collections right around the globe. The listing that appears below is by no means exhaustive but it does feature particularly useful and well-developed sites, those that make use of audio extracts, and those with lots of useful hypertext links to other sites.
Please send us more suggestions, particularly for any UK sites that you feel should be on this list, but also comments about your own experiences of using the Web.
Back issues of the Journal of the Oral History Society are also available. They feature wide-ranging news reports on oral history work in Britain and abroad, information on conferences and meetings, reviews, letters, in-depth articles, practical and comprehensive advice on techniques and equipment. Issues are often thematic and have included: childhood, women's history, health care, war, politics, reminiscence, the national curriculum, the sea, work, museums, ethnicity, popular memory and family history.
Key Oral History Organisations
- Oral History Society (UK) http://www.oralhistory.org.uk
- Oral History Association (US) http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/
- Canadian Oral History Association http://www.canoha.ca/
- International Oral History Association http://www.ioha.fgv.br/
- H-Oralhist is a network for scholars and professionals active in studies related to oral history http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist/
Some UK Sites
- Age Exchange, The Reminiscence Centre, 11 Blackheath Village, London http://www.age-exchange.org.uk/
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Ambleside Oral History Group
http://www.aohghistory.f9.co.uk/ -
Aberdeen and Region Oral History Association (AROHA)
http://www.arohascotland.org/ - British Library National Life Story Collection, London http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nlsc.html
- BBC Education - History - 20th Century Vox http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/20cvox/
- Department of Sound Records, Imperial War Museum, London http://www.iwm.org.uk/lambeth/sound.htm
- Qualidata - Qualitative Data Service http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/
- Mass-Observation Archive, University of Sussex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/massobs/homearch.html
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Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff
http://www.nmgw.ac.uk/www.php/195/ - North East Oral History Network
http://www.oralhistorynortheast.info/ - School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh http://www.sss.ed.ac.uk/
- The Society of Archivists Film and Sound Group (UK) http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/fsgmain.htm
- South Wales Coalfield Collection/Miners Library, University of Wales Swansea http://www.swan.ac.uk/swcc/
- Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland http://www.uftm.org.uk/
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Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop
http://www.wforalhistory.org.uk/ - East Midlands Oral History Archive http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/
- Exmoor Oral History Archive http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/exmoor/
- The King's Cross Voices Oral History Project
http://www.kingscrossvoices.org.uk/ - Dartmoor National Park Authority's Moor Memories Oral History Project
http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/dnp/oralhist/ohhomepage.html
Virtually Dartmoor – Interactive Visits to the National Park
http://www.virtuallydartmoor.org.uk - The Federaton of Worker Writers and Community Publishers
http://www.thefwwcp.org.uk/ - British National Corpus http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
- History Today Magazine
http://www.magazine-group.co.uk/magazines.php?id=73 - Bracknell Forest Heritage
http://www.bfheritage.org.uk/ - Refugee Communities History Project
http://www.refugeestories.org/ - Epping Forest District Museum's new online oral history page
Link here - Society for Folklife Studies
http://www.folklifestudies.org.uk/ - Wild Rose Heritage and Arts
http://www.wildrosearts.net/
Some US Sites
- Indiana University Oral History Research Center http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ecshm/
- John F Kennedy Library Oral History Project http://www.cs.umb.edu/~serl/jfk/oralhist.htm
- Kellogg African American Health Care Project http://www.ur-net.com/kellogg/theoral.htm
- Michigan Oral History Association http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~moha
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Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, New York
Link here - Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, Berkeley University http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/
- Smithsonian Institution Archives http://www.siris.si.edu/
- Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.unc.edu/depts/sohp/
- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation http://www.vhf.org/
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington http://www.ushmm.org/
- University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program http://www.uaf.edu/library/libweb/oralhist/
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University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Oral History Program
Link here - University of Connecticut Center for Oral History http://www.oralhistory.uconn.edu/
- University of Hawai'i Center for Oral History http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/oral_hist/index.html
- University of Louisville Oral History Center http://www.louisville.edu/library/uarc/ohc.html
- US Library of Congress WPA Federal Writers' Project Life Stories http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
- Utah State University Oral History Program http://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/oralhist.html
- Youngstown State University Oral History Program http://www.as.ysu.edu/~histpres/
- 1968: The Whole World Was Watching http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968
- University of Nevada Oral History Program http://oralhistory.unr.edu/
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USC Shoah Foundation Institute
http://college.usc.edu/vhi/ -
The Vermont Folklife Center
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/
Other Key Sites
- National Library of Australia Oral History Collection http://www.nla.gov.au/oh/.
- National Library of Australia Oral History Directory http://www.nla.gov.au/ohdir/
- University of New South Wales Oral History Program, Sydney, Australia http://www.oralhistory.unsw.edu.au/
- JS Battye Library, Library and Information Service of New South Wales, Australia http://www.liswa.wa.gov.au/oral.html
- National Library of New Zealand Oral History Centre http://tepuna.natlib.govt.nz/abouttp/abkilbirnie/about.html
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New Zealand Historical Branch (Oral History)
Link here - National Archives of Singapore Oral History Centre: http://www.museum.org.sg/nas/ohr.html
- Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, Israel http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/
- Western Cape Oral History Project, University of Cape Town, South Africa http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/history/ohp1.htm
- Museum of the Person, Sao Paula, Brazil http://www2.uol.com.br/mpessoa/engl.htm
- The Hong Kong Oral History Archives Project http://www.hku.hk/hkcsp/oral.html
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Northside Folklore Project
http://www.ucc.ie/research/nfp
Useful Link / Search Sites
- BBC Education - History http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/history
- Museums around the UK on the Web http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/vlmp/uk.html
- University of London Institute of Historical Research http://www.ihr.sas.ac.uk/
- The History Channel http://www.historychannel.com/gspeech/
- UK Archives on the Internet http://www.archivesinfo.net/
- Rhodes College, Memphis Tennessee, History Resources http://blair.library.rhodes.edu/histhtmls/histnet.html
- New Jersey Council for History Education http://www.njche.com/links.html
- University of California History Resources http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/
- Australian National University Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~cims/oralhist.html
- Assisted immigration from Britian to New Zealand http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/immigration/index.htm
Oral History Publications
Oral History Handbooks and Bibliographies
- Finnegan, Ruth, Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices, London, Routledge, 1992.
- Perks, Robert, Oral History: An Annotated Bibliography, London, British Library National Sound Archive, 1990.
- Perks, Robert, Oral History: Talking About the Past, London, Historical Association, second edition 1995.
- Ritchie, Don, Doing Oral History, New York, Twayne, 1995.
- Seldon, Anthony and Pappworth, Joanna, By Word of Mouth: Elite Oral History, London, Methuen, 1983.
- Thompson, Paul, The Voice of the Past: Oral History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, third edition, 2000.
- Trask, David and Pomeroy, Robert, The Craft of Public History: An Annotated Select Bibliography, Westport, Greenwood, 1983.
- Yow, Valerie Raleigh, Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists, London, Sage, 1994.
- Perks, Robert & Thomson, Al (eds), The Oral History Reader, London, Routledge 1998.
Theory and Practice
- Bornat, Joanna, (ed.), Reminiscence Reviewed: Perspectives, Evaluations, Achievements, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1994.
- Dunaway, David and Baum, Willa (eds), Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, London, Altamira Press, second edition 1996.
- Evans, George Ewart, Spoken History, London, Faber, 1987.
- Frisch, Michael, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1990.
- Gluck, Sherna Berger and Patai, Daphne (eds), Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History, London, Routledge, 1991.
- Grele, Ronald (ed.), Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History, Chicago, Precedent, second edition 1985.
- Lummis, Trevor, Listening to History: The Authenticity of Oral Evidence, London, Hutchinson, 1987.
- Portelli, Alessandro, The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1991.
- Samuel, Raphael and Thompson, Paul (eds), The Myths We Live By, London, Routledge, 1990.
- Tonkin, Elizabeth, Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Vansina, Jan, Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965.
Periodicals
- Canadian Oral History Association Journal, vol. 1 1975/6--
- Cuadernos, [International] no. 1 1997--
- Family & Community History Journal, vol.1 issue 1 1998--
- International Journal of Oral History, vol. 1 1980--??1990
- International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, vol. 1 1993--vol. 4 1996
- Life Stories/Recits de Vie, [UK/France] no. 1 1985--no. 5 1989
- Memory and Narrative, [International] vol. 1 1997--
- Oral History, [UK] vol. 1 no. 1 1969--
- Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 1 1978--
- Oral History in New Zealand, vol. 1 1988--
- Oral History Review, [US] no. 1 1973--