At the Oral History Centre, Singapore’s stories are kept alive through oral history recordings – interviews with people about their personal recollections. Since 1979, the Centre has collected 23,000 hours’ worth of interviews with 4,100 interviewees in more than 30 projects. These span a wide range of topics, capturing the broad sweep of Singapore’s history from politics and the civil service to vanishing trades, the performing arts, broadcasting and medical services. For full story with link to interviews, click here.
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Stories of Survivors of Genocide
There are firsthand accounts included in a project called “Survivors of Genocide” by Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History (IOH). Researchers with the institute have created an online exhibit, conducting extensive interviews in the homes of 14 people who faced atrocities in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur and Burundi but managed to escape and immigrate to the United States. For full story with links to website and interviews, click here.
Genomics History
A collection of oral history videos released today by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) features candid conversations with pioneering genomics researchers and an interactive discussion with the institute's three directors to date. For full story click here.
A collection of oral history videos released today by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) features candid conversations with pioneering genomics researchers and an interactive discussion with the institute's three directors to date.
Read more at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-03-nhgri-oral-history-features-influential.html#jCp
Battle of Beersheba
Logan residents and descendants of indigenous Australian soldiers who took part in the Battle of Beersheba and the Sinai-Palestine campaign are being called on to take part in an oral history project. For full story click here.
Dating in Australia
Historian Alistair Thomson from Monash University introduces us to Ruth and Arthur – two people who've shared their story as part of Australian Lives: An Intimate History. Listen to this interview on Radio National here.
Mormon Oral History
Oral histories are one tool the Church History Department uses to capture and preserve information, gain first-hand insight into historical events, and record the faith-promoting experiences and testimonies of members that would otherwise be lost. Also, when traditional records are inadequate, oral histories are a good way to fill in the gaps, said Matthew K. Heiss, an area manager of Global Support and Acquisitions in the Church History Department. For full story click here.
Interviewing Vulnerable Narrators
On 23 February 2017, Oral History Queensland in partnership with the State Library of Queensland hosted a panel discussion on interviewing vulnerable narrators. The speakers were Anne Monsour, Jo Besley and Kevin Cocks. SLQ has made the audio of the session available here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDTgdguqBL0
Interviewing Journalists, South Dakota
"Three veteran journalists, who have witnessed and chronicled major South Dakota events for years are being interviewed and recorded as part of an ongoing oral history project in the state."
This is an interesting article from which we can learn. Read the full article here.
Digitising Coalfields Heritage, NSW
Local resident turned historian, Jack Delaney, undertook a remarkable project in the 1970s and 1980s. Realising that so many of our local stories went unrecorded and that when many elderly residents passed away they took not only their stories, but our region’s history with them – he decided to act. Jack began interviewing as many people as he could, particularly from the coalfields area, deliberately seeking out ordinary people whose lives often went undocumented. The result is an astounding oral history collection containing hundreds of interviews, which he deposited for safe keeping with the Coalfields Heritage Group. For full story click here.
Adelaide’s Market Gardens
Campbelltown Council’s recent decision to consider including $14,500 in its 2017/18 budget to produce an oral history collection on the area’s horticultural past means a lot to Max Amber. “All the vegetables were grown in very ordered rows, they didn’t just go out and sprinkle them,” says Mr Amber, who is also Campbelltown Historical Society’s president. “Cauliflowers and cabbages; they made rows with a horse and a plough.” For full story click here.