Links

Key Oral History Organisations

• Oral History Society (UK): http://www.oralhistory.org.uk
• Oral History Association (US): http://www.oralhistory.org/
• Canadian Oral History Association: http://www.canoha.ca/
• International Oral History Association: http://iohanet.org/
• H-Oralhist is a network for scholars and professionals active in studies related to oral history: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist/

UK SITES

• Aberdeen and Region Oral History Association (AROHA): http://www.arohascotland.org/
• Age Exchange, The Reminiscence Centre, Blackheath, London: http://www.age-exchange.org.uk/
• Ambleside Oral History Group: http://www.aohg.org.uk/
• Bracknell Forest Heritage: http://www.bfheritage.org.uk/
• British Library National Sound Archive: Click here
• East Midlands Oral History Archive, Oral History Around the UK: http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/emoha/arounduk.html
• Epping Forest District Museum's new online oral history page: Click here
• Exmoor Oral History Archive http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/exmoor/
• The Immigrants Project. Reading:  http://www.theimmigrantsproject.org/
• The King's Cross Voices Oral History Project: http://www.kingscrossvoices.org.uk/
• Kiveton Park and Wales Community History Project www.kivetonwaleshistory.co.uk
• Mass-Observation Archive. Recording Everyday Life in Britain. University of Sussex http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm
• Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration in England http://www.movinghere.org.uk/default.htm
• Museum of London.  Belonging: Voices of London's refugees: www.museumoflondon.org.uk/belonging
• Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff: http://www.nmgw.ac.uk/www.php/195/
• My Yorkshire: http://www.myyorkshire.org/
• Newport Community Memories Project: Click here
• North East Oral History Network: http://www.oralhistorynortheast.info/
• Oral History Society (UK): http://www.ohs.org.uk
• Refugee Communities History Project:n http://www.refugeestories.org/
• Society of Archivists Film, Sound & Photography Group: Click Here
• School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh http://www.sss.ed.ac.uk/
• Society for Folklife Studies: http://www.folklifestudies.org.uk/
• Somerset Voices Oral History Archive http://www.somersetvoices.org.uk/
• Sound Portraits: http://www.soundportraits.org
• Theatre Archive Project. The British Library, University of Sheffield and AHRC http://www.bl.uk/theatrearchive
• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland http://www.uftm.org.uk/
• University of Aberdeen Oral History Archive: Click here
• Untold London. Discover the history of London’s diverse communitie:shttp://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/
• Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop: http://www.wforalhistory.org.uk/
• Wild Rose Heritage and Arts: http://www.wildrosearts.net/
• Working Lives. Memories of work and industry in Nuneaton and Bedwort: http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/workinglives

Oral History Handbooks and Bibliographies

• Finnegan, Ruth, Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices, London, Routledge, 1992.
• Hays, P., Speak for Yourself, Namibia, Longman, 1992.
• Hutching, M., Talking History: a Short Guide to Oral History, Wellington, New Zealand, Bridget Williams Books/Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs, 1993.
• Matters, M., Oral History Cataloguing Manual, Chicago, Ill.: Society of American Archivists, 1995.
• Perks, Robert, Oral History: An Annotated Bibliography, London, British Library National Sound Archive, 1990.
• Perks, Robert, Oral History: Talking About the Past, London, Historical Association, second edition 1995.
• Perks, Robert & Thomson, Al (eds), The Oral History Reader, London, Routledge 1998.
• Ritchie, Don, Doing Oral History, New York, Twayne, 1995.
• Robertson, B., Oral History Handbook, fourth edition, Adelaide: Oral History Association of Australia (South Australia Branch), 2000.
• Seldon, Anthony and Pappworth, Joanna, By Word of Mouth: Elite Oral History, London, Methuen, 1983.
• Taylor, P., Telling It Like It Was: A Guide to Making Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History, Camberra: Australian Institute Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies, 1996.
• Thompson, P., The Voice of the Past: Oral History, third edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Trask, David and Pomeroy, Robert, The Craft of Public History: An Annotated Select Bibliography, Westport, Greenwood, 1983.
• Wilton, J., Oral History in Australia: A List, Sydney: Oral History Association of Australia (NSW Branch), 1996.
• Yow, V. R., Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2nd edition, Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2005.

Key Studies using Oral History

• Amin, S., Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
• Bozzoli, B., with Nkotsoe, M., Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983, London: James Currey, 1991.
• Broadfoot, B., Ten Lost Years 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians who Survived the Depression, Toronto: Doubleday, 1973.
• Caplan, P., African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village, London: Routledge, 1997.
• Cruikshank, J., The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
• Field, S., Lost Communities, Living Memories: Remembering Forced Removals in Cape Town: David Philip, 2001.
• Fraser, R., Blood of Spain: The Experience of Civil War 1936-9, London: Allen Lane, 1979.
• Fyfe, J., The Matriarchs: A Generation of New Zealand Women Talk to Judith Fyfe, Auckland: Penguin, 1990.
• Genovese, E., Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World Slaves Made, New York: Pantheon, 1974.
• Glassie, E., Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Folkore and History of an Ulster Community, Dublin: O’Brien Press, 1982.
• Gluck, S. B., Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War and Social Change, Boston, Mass.: Twayne, 1987.
• Greenspan, H., On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History, Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.
• Haley, A., Roots, London: Hutchinson, 1977.
• Hammerton, A. J. and Thomson, A., Ten Pound Poms: Australia Invisible Migrants, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
• Hareven, T., Family Time and Industrial Time: The Relationship Between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
• Hinton, W., Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village, London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.
• Hofmeyer, I., We Spend our Years as a Tale that is Told: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom, London: James Currey, 1993.
• James, D., Dona Maria’s Story: Life Journey, Memory and Political Destiny, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000.
• Kay, B., Odyssey: Voices from Scotland’s recent Past, two volumes, (ed.), Edinburgh, Polygon, 1981/1982.
• Kennedy, E. L. and Davis, M., Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of  Lesbian Community, New York, Routledge, 1993.
• Langer, L., Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991.
• Lanzmann, C., Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust, New York: Pantheon, 1985.
• Lowenstein, W., Weevils in the Flour: An Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in Australia, Melbourne: Hyland House, 1978.
• Maloof, J., Voices of Resistance: Testimonies of Cuban and Chilean Women, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
• Parker, T., The People of Providence: a Housing Estate and some of its Inhabitants. London: Hutchinson, 1983.
• Passerini, L., Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
• Portelli, A., The Order Has been Carried Out: History, Memory and the Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
• Roberts, E., A Woman’s Place: An Oral History of Working Class Women 1890-1940, Oxford, Blackwell, 1984.
• Roseman, M., The Past in Hiding, Harmondsworth, London: Penguin, 2000.
• Rosengarten, T, All God’s dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, New York: Knopf, 1971.
• Summerfield, P., Reconstructing Women’s Wartime Lives, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998.
• Terkel, S., Hard Times, An Oral History of the Great Depression, New York, Pantheon, 1970.
• Thomson, A., Anzac Memories, Living with the Legend, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Van Onselen, C., The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985, New York: Hill & Wang.
• Wigginton, E., Sometimes a Shining Moments: The Foxfire Experience, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985.
• Zhang, X. and Ye, S., Chinese Lives, Harmondsworth, London: Penguin, 1989.