
Oral History Society
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For 50 years @OralHistorySoc has been promoting the collection, preservation and use of recorded memories of the past both in the UK and abroad.
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An inspirational day at @BL_0ralHistory presenting our interview selection framework and playing the ‘Matrix’ game otherwise know as fun with spreadsheets! OHEM oral environmental history Oral History Society #oralhistoryfest


Back this evening from the Oral History Society Festival at the British Library. Brilliant time, very pleased to put a lot of faces to names and eager to take some of the energy and ideas from that forward.


Very happy that the first publication from my oral history project on legal solidarity & the 1984-85 #MinersStrike will feature in the next issue of Oral History (v 52 n 2). I've also written this blog post for Oral History Society to introduce the research: ohs.org.uk/ohj-online/whi…

📢 UPCOMING EVENTS 📢 Register here forms.office.com/pages/response… 1️⃣ 19th Sep, online: PhD/ECR panel + Prof. Jolly (Connected Histories Of The BBC) 2️⃣ 20th Sep, in-person History at Leeds: Chris Hill (An Oral History of British Nuclear Test Veterans), Evelyn Curl (ADS) and Verusca Calabria (@Trentuni Oral History Society)


This memory box was created to remember personal histories of mental health care in Nottingham. Find out how Mental Health Care Memories and Verusca Calabria used our funding to run an inclusive oral history project in our latest case study. Read more 👉 heritagefund.org.uk/projects/hidde…


Check out the 2024-25 NTU #oralhistory seminar series with special guest Alessandro Portelli who will visit us in person on 21 May 2025, all welcome. Chris Reynolds Oral History Society OHS Higher Education SIG Oral History Collective Newcastle Oral History Collective NTU Research


The second of our new publications: "They're still fighting the fight on Facebook": The landscape of social media remembering the British coal industry in Oral History Oral History Society. Open Access version available here: wlv.openrepository.com/handle/2436/62…

Are you in Belfast, are you interested in getting involved in a community-led oral history project in East Belfast? You'll receive training and guidance from myself (EastSide Partnership & Oral History Society) and National Museums NI. Info night Wed 6 Nov 19:00-20:00. Pls share!






Join us on Thurs 5/12 for our next free In Dialogue online seminar with Institute of Historical Research! Maya Parmar will discuss her #RemakingBritain project on South Asian networks from the 1830s to today. #OralHistory #SouthAsianDiaspora history.ac.uk/events/dialogu…

Exciting news! We’re featured in the Oral History Society blog! Read the blog to discover the UK South Asian Digital Archive’s vision and learn how we’re building an exciting, future focused archive. ohs.org.uk/regions/east-m…


Really helpful training course on carrying out oral history interviews with Oral History Society at the British Library yesterday. Lovely to meet up with Xinyi Zhao and Takayuki Nagamine / 長峯貴幸 afterwards too! 😀NW Consortium DTP Lancaster University Phonetics Lab Keri Nicholson Lancashire Archives Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni


More story fragments documenting my journeys for LOST & FOUND - this time Narrow Marsh, once a slum area of Nottingham. Inspired by Mr Armfield (b.1913) from the oral history collections Inspire Nottinghamshire Libraries British Library East Midlands Oral History Archive Oral History Society Nottinghamshire Heritage Forum #artistinresidence

'This project was about creating a different kind of record of what the British Council does'. #BritishCouncilOralHistories Project Lead James Perkins reflects on the value of #OralHisory as a methodology to capture of our ‘backstory'. ohs.org.uk/general-intere… Oral History Society
