“Researchers at the University of Winnipeg are hitting the road this summer in a new food truck, inviting Manitobans to hop on board, cook family recipes and be interviewed about the process. “We have people coming aboard the food truck to cook a dish that has meaning to them, and to interview them about their life stories. And we’re also going off the food truck and interviewing business owners and workers of long-standing food production facilities and food businesses,” said Sarah Story, an archivist involved with the Manitoba Food History Project.” A great idea for an oral history project. See full story here.
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London Audio Tour
“Unearthing London’s history, and the tales behind it, could soon be as easy as a quick phone call. All it takes is a cellphone to tap into the Hear, Here network soon to be built in London, a program that links bite-size audio clips to historical and cultural sites around the city.” Read full story here.
Papua New Guineans’ World War II Memories
A new website has been created to collect the memories of Papua New Guineans who experienced World War II. See full story here.
Evolution of Australian Language
“It is thought by those who have studied the subject that the Australian accent developed through a process of ‘levelling’, where speakers of different accents come together, major differences gradually disappear and a homogeneous way of speaking is adopted.” Read full story here.
Doug Boyd 2018 Recipient of Archival Innovator Award
Doug Boyd, director of the University of Kentucky Libraries Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, is the 2018 recipient of the Archival Innovator Award from the Society of American Archivists (SAA). See full story here.
Voices of the Eyre Peninsula
“Stories of the past from Port Lincoln and the wider Eyre Peninsula region are being collected as part of a new oral history project, Voices of the Eyre.” See full story here.
From interview to robot response
“Stephanie Dinkins is busy turning the experiences of three generations of her family into a bot, an oral-history-cum-memoir of a black family in America in the form of a computer algorithm. She, her aunt, and her niece have been interviewing one another intensively for the past several months, using stock questions intended to get at the fundamentals of their values, ethics, experiences, and the history of their family.” This is a fascinating use of oral history. See full story here.
Oral History of Television (USA)
Freedom Rider 1961
India Oral History Project
“As with most children listening to their grandparents’ stories, Bhatia too hadn’t placed too much importance on the memories that her grandmother shared with her. She enjoyed listening to these recollections, of course, but it wasn’t until she started working at The Citizens’ Archive of India (CAI) that she fully understood the value of the stories that her grandmother had once told her.” For full story, click here.