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.
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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.
Brooklyn oral history
People talk a lot about Brooklyn changing, but to understand what the change is, one must understand what it’s changing from. To that end, the Brooklyn Public Library has undertaken over the past year an oral history project called Our Streets, Our Stories, whose audio files are shared on a Tumblr and on SoundCloud. The participants in Our Streets, Our Stories are senior Brooklynites who share their memories of what their neighborhood was like growing up, or when they moved here, or how it’s changed over the years. Click for more and listen to interviews here.
Podcasts of abortion stories
The Abortion Diary is the intersection of self-expression, healing, and the art of story-sharing and story-listening. We are dedicated to creating a space for people to share stories they haven’t been able to share and listen to stories they haven’t been able to hear. See more here.
NZ Projects receive funding
Diverse stories of New Zealand history, including sheep shearing, an internationally successful business and Cook Island music-making will be brought to life through this year’s New Zealand Oral History Awards recipients announced by Manatū Taonga, Ministry for Culture and Heritage. See more here.