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War Memorial celebrates indigenous service

While Australian War Memorial curator Amanda Jane Reynolds is passionate about all the exhibits she has drawn together for the first exhibition devoted solely to the military experience of Australia's first peoples, Len Waters' flying helmet speaks to her most strongly. Warrant Officer Waters, who was born at Eurabi Mission near Boomi in northern NSW in 1924, was Australia's first Aboriginal military aviator. For full story click here.

Former broadcaster wins award

Rachel Maher, a former Melbourne community broadcaster, and previous CBF board member has been nominated in Prix Italia – an international Italian television, radio broadcasting website award, for her documentary on Ebola, The City That Doesn't Touch. Working in West Africa during the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus, Rachel was struck by the frightening parallels with Albert Camus' novel "The Plague". Click here to read full article.

Rachel Maher, a former Melbourne community broadcaster, and previous CBF board member has been nominated in Prix Italia – an international Italian television, radio broadcasting website award, for her documentary on Ebola, The City That Doesn't Touch.

Working in West Africa during the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus, Rachel was struck by the frightening parallels with Albert Camus’ novel "The Plague".

Centenarian celebrates his birthday

CLIFTON Haynes still has a sparkle in his eye and still plays the piano. The always-dapper Mosman identity has lived in the suburb since 1924 and last week celebrated his 100th birthday. r Haynes has remarkable memories of Mosman, of an era when trams ran past his house, when a party was a private ball in a local mansion and the cinema cost a shilling and sixpence. For full story click here.

Stolen Wages (Queensland)

Queensland’s first dedicated Reparations Review Panel has had its inaugural meeting and stands ready to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people without formal documentation access the Palaszczuk Government’s $21 million stolen wages fund by accepting their oral history as evidence. Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Curtis Pitt said the Palaszczuk Government established the expert panel in direct response to community feedback from the Stolen Wages Reparations Taskforce led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda. For full story click here.

Oral History Review Virtual Issue

We spend a lot of time in this space pointing to particular people or projects that we think are doing interesting things with oral history. In June we talked to Josh Burford, who is using oral history to start important conversations in North Carolina. In April, we heard from Shanna Farrell, who discussed Berkeley’s Oral History Summer Institute. Last September we talked to Doug Boyd about how he uses oral history in the classroom, and the incredible potential that OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) has for making oral histories more accessible. We love highlighting the exciting things others are doing, but sometimes we can’t help but brag about our own work. We’ve done something really cool, and we are so excited to share it with you. See full article here.

African-American Oral History

YPSILANTI, MI – Ypsilanti is a city that loves its history and perhaps holds more historians per capita than any town in the state. A new oral history project in which leading figures in the city's rich African-American past tell their own stories will add to that tradition. For full story including links to audio interviews click here.

9/11 Memories in Air Force 1

Nearly every American above a certain age remembers precisely where they were on September 11, 2001. But for a tiny handful of people, those memories touch American presidential history. Shortly after the attacks began, the most powerful man in the world, who had been informed of the World Trade Center explosions in a Florida classroom, was escorted to a runway and sent to the safest place his handlers could think of: the open sky. For full story click here.

Cost of doing oral history

To kick off our #HowToOralHistory series, we invited Steven Sielaff to come back and explain some of how he estimates the costs – both in time and money – to produce a single well researched interview. See full report here.

King Edward Memorial Hospital’s 100th Anniversary

A RETIRED Bassendean couple have released a historic book to celebrate King Edward Memorial Hospital’s 100th anniversary last month. Historians Jennie and Bevan Carter were previously a former councillor and Mayor of the Town of Bassendean and now run a private consultant business. For full story click here.

Oral history of Savile Row

Students from fashion courses at Kensington and Chelsea College and the London College of Fashion were working with arts and education charity digital-works to explore the history of tailoring in the Savile Row area in London's West End. With support from the Museum of London the students have undertaken research and then gone on to interview 25 people working in various aspects of the trade. These interviews are given to archives for public access. Read story and watch movie here.