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
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Oral History Society (UK)
http://www.oralhistory.org.uk -
Oral History Association (US)
http://www.oralhistory.org/ -
Canadian Oral History Association
http://www.canoha.ca/ -
International Oral History Association
http://iohanet.org/ -
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, Blackheath, London http://www.age-exchange.org.uk/
- Ambleside Oral History Group
http://www.aohg.org.uk/ - Bracknell Forest Heritage
http://www.bfheritage.org.uk/ -
British Library National Sound Archive
Click here - Culture 24
Click here - East Midlands Oral History Archive, Oral History Around the UK
http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/emoha/arounduk.html - Epping Forest District Museum's new online oral history page
Click here - Exmoor Oral History Archive http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/exmoor/
- The Immigrants Project. Reading http://www.theimmigrantsproject.org/
- The King's Cross Voices Oral History Project
http://www.kingscrossvoices.org.uk/ - Kiveton Park and Wales Community History Project www.kivetonwaleshistory.co.uk
- Mass-Observation Archive. Recording Everyday Life in Britain. University of Sussex http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm
- Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration in England http://www.movinghere.org.uk/default.htm
- Museum of London. Belonging: Voices of London's refugees: www.museumoflondon.org.uk/belonging
- Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff
http://www.nmgw.ac.uk/www.php/195/ - My Yorkshire
http://www.myyorkshire.org/ - Newport Community Memories Project
Click here - North East Oral History Network
http://www.oralhistorynortheast.info/ - Oral History Society (UK) http://www.ohs.org.uk
- Refugee Communities History Project
http://www.refugeestories.org/ - Society of Archivists Film, Sound & Photography Group
Click Here - School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh http://www.sss.ed.ac.uk/
- Society for Folklife Studies
http://www.folklifestudies.org.uk/ - Somerset Voices Oral History Archive http://www.somersetvoices.org.uk/
- Sound Portraits
http://www.soundportraits.org - Theatre Archive Project. The British Library, University of Sheffield and AHRC http://www.bl.uk/theatrearchive
- Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland http://www.uftm.org.uk/
- University of Aberdeen Oral History Archive
Click here - Untold London. Discover the history of London’s diverse communities
http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/ - Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop
http://www.wforalhistory.org.uk/ - Wild Rose Heritage and Arts
http://www.wildrosearts.net/ - Working Lives. Memories of work and industry in Nuneaton and Bedworth
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/workinglives
Some US sites
- 1968: The Whole World Was Watching http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968
- Oral History, Concordia University
Click here - In the First Person. An index to letters diaries oral histories, personal narratives http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.shtml
- John F Kennedy Library Oral History Project http://www.cs.umb.edu/~serl/jfk/oralhist.htm
- Oral History Association [USA] http://alpha.dickinson.edu/oha/
- Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, New York
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/index.html - Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, Berkeley University http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
http://www.siris.si.edu/ - Storycorps
http://www.storycorps.net - Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation http://www.vhf.org/
- Telling Their Stories. Oral History Archive Project http://www.tellingstories.org/
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington http://www.ushmm.org/
- University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program http://library.uaf.edu/oral-history
- University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Oral History Program
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/6265.cfm - University of Connecticut Center for Oral History http://www.oralhistory.uconn.edu/
- University of Florida. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program http://www.history.ufl.edu/oral/
- University of Hawai'i Center for Oral History http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/oral_hist/index.html
- University of Nevada Oral History Program http://oralhistory.unr.edu/
- USC Shoah Foundation Institute
http://college.usc.edu/vhi/ - US Library of Congress WPA Federal Writers' Project Life Stories http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
- The Vermont Folklife Center
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/ - Veterans History Project. American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/vets/ - Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu - Youngstown State University Oral History Program http://www.as.ysu.edu/~histpres/
Other key sites
- H-Oralhist
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist - Brazil Oral History Association/Associação Brasileira de História Oral
http://www.cpdoc.fgv.br/abho - Brunei History Centre
http://www.history-centre.gov.bn/eng-s_research.htm - Centre for Popular Memory [South Africa]
www.popularmemory.org - The Hong Kong Oral History Archives Project
http://www.hku.hk/hkcsp/oral.html - Hong Kong Heritage Project
https://www.hongkongheritage.org/html/eng/index.html - Institut für Geschichte und Biographie/Institute for History and Biography [Germany]
Click here - International Oral History Association
http://www.ioha.fgv.br - Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV)/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies [Netherlands]
http://www.kitlv.nl - National Archives of Singapore. Collection of Oral History Recording Database
http://cord.nhb.gov.sg/cord/public/internetSearch/ - National Oral History Programme [Barbados]
http://www.ncf.bb/ - 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/ - National Oral History Association of New Zealand/Te Kete Körero-a-Waha o Te Motu
http://www.oralhistory.org.nz - Northside Folklore Project
http://www.ucc.ie/research/nfp - Oral History Association of Australia
www.ohaa.net.au - Oral History Centre [Singapore]
http://www.a2o.com.sg/ - Oral and Pictorial Records Programme [Trinidad and Tobago]
http://www.mainlib.uwi.tt/ - University of New South Wales Oral History Program, Sydney, Australia
http://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/ - Western Cape Oral History Project, University of Cape Town, South Africa
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/history/ohp1.htm
Useful link /search sites
- 24 Hour Museum. News
Click here - British National Corpus
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ - CommunityArchives.org,uk. The National Directory of Community Archives in the UK.
http://www.communityarchives.org.uk/ - FamilyRecords.gov.uk. Official Source for family records http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/
- GENUKI. United Kingdom and Ireland Emigration and Immigration
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Emigration.html - History in Focus. Guide to Historical Archives http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Migration/index.html
- Museums around the UK on the Web http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/vlmp/uk.html
- The National Archives http://www.ndad.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
- Qualidata - Qualitative Data Service http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/
- The Real Histories Directory http://www.realhistories.millipedia.net/
- UK Archives on the Internet
http://www.archivesinfo.net/ - University of London Institute of Historical Research http://www.ihr.sas.ac.uk/