Resources and Organisations in Britain and Abroad
Since the Oral History Society launched its own website many more oral history groups and organisations, in Britain and abroad, have done likewise. Many more members of the Society now have access to the Internet with email facilities, and are able to explore oral history projects and collections right around the globe. The listing that appears below is by no means exhaustive but it does feature particularly useful and well-developed sites, those that make use of audio extracts, and those with lots of useful hypertext links to other sites.
Please send us more suggestions, particularly for any UK sites that you feel should be on this list, but also comments about your own experiences of using the Web.
Back issues of the Journal of the Oral History Society are also available. They feature wide-ranging news reports on oral history work in Britain and abroad, information on conferences and meetings, reviews, letters, in-depth articles, practical and comprehensive advice on techniques and equipment. Issues are often thematic and have included: childhood, women's history, health care, war, politics, reminiscence, the national curriculum, the sea, work, museums, ethnicity, popular memory and family history.
KEY ORAL HISTORY ORGANISATIONS
- Canadian Oral History Association
http://www.canoha.ca/ - H-Oralhist
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist/
(H-Oralhist is a network for scholars and professionals active in studies related to oral history) - International Oral History Association
http://iohanet.org/ - Oral History Association (US)
http://www.oralhistory.org - Oral History Society (UK)
http://www.oralhistory.org.uk
SOME UK SITES
- A 'Durham In Time' Community Website: Coal mining oral history
http://www.durhamintime.org.uk/Coal_Mining/index.htm - Age Exchange, The Reminiscence Centre, Blackheath, London
http://www.age-exchange.org.uk/ - Ambleside Oral History Group
http://www.aohg.org.uk/ - Birmingham Black Oral History Project
http://www.bbohp.org.uk - Bracknell Forest Heritage
http://www.bfheritage.org.uk/ - Brighton Ourstory
http://www.brightonourstory.co.uk/aboutus/index.html
(Brighton Ourstory was set up in 1989 by a group of local lesbians and gay men. Our aim is to collect material about our lesbian, gay and bisexual past - and present - and to make sure that our experience is preserved and made visible to the lesbian, gay and bisexual community.) - British Library National Sound Archive
http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/history.html - Captive Memories: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Far East POW experience
http://www.captivememories.org.uk - Centre for North West Regional Studies, Lancaster University
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/cnwrs/archives.html - Culture 24
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage - Dartmoor National Park Authority Moor Memories Oral History Project
Click here to view site - 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 to view site - Exmoor Oral History Archive
http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/exmoor/ - Hanging Out: Youth Culture Then and Now
http://www.hangingout.org.uk/ - Imperial War Museum Sound Archive
http://www.iwm.org.uk/lambeth/sound.htm - King's Cross Voices (Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre catalogue)
http://adlib.camden.gov.uk/default.aspx - Kiveton Park and Wales Community History Project
http://www.kivetonwaleshistory.co.uk - Mass-Observation Archive. Recording Everyday Life in Britain. University of Sussex
http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm - Migrant health workers in the NHS
http://www.migranthealthworkers.org.uk/ - Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration in England
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/default.htm - Museum of London - Belonging: Voices of London's refugees
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/belonging - Museum of London - London's Voices
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/londonsvoices - 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 to view site - North East Oral History Network
http://www.oralhistorynortheast.info/ - Oral History Society (UK)
http://www.ohs.org.uk - Refugee Communities History Project
http://www.refugeestories.org/ - School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh
http://www.sss.ed.ac.uk/ - Society for Folklife Studies
http://www.folklifestudies.org.uk/ - Society of Archivists Film, Sound & Photography Group
Click here to view site - Somerset Voices Oral History Archive
http://www.somersetvoices.org.uk/ - Sound Portraits
http://www.soundportraits.org - Swanshurst School History Channel
http://www.swanshurst.org/historychannel/ - The corner shop. A social history project
http://www.thecornershopproject.co.uk - The Immigrants Project. Reading
http://www.theimmigrantsproject.org/ - The King's Cross Voices Oral History Project
http://www.kingscrossvoices.org.uk/ - 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 to view site - Untold London. Discover the history of London’s diverse communities
http://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 Bedworth
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/workinglives - [VIVA] Voices in the Visual Arts
http://www.vivavoices.org/website.asp?page=Viva
SOME US & CANADIAN SITES
- 1968: The Whole World Was Watching
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968 - Canadian Oral History Association/Société Canadienne d'Histoire Orale
http://oral-history.ncf.ca - In the First Person. An index to letters diaries oral histories, personal narratives
http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.shtml - John F Kennedy Library Oral History Project
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~serl/jfk/oralhist.htm - Oral History Association (USA)
http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/ - Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, New York
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/index.html - Oral History, Concordia University
http://storytelling.concordia.ca/oralhistory/index.html - Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, Berkeley University
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ - Smithsonian Institution Archives
http://www.siris.si.edu/ - Storycorps
http://www.storycorps.net - Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
http://www.vhf.org/ - Telling Their Stories. Oral History Archive Project
http://www.tellingstories.org/ - The Vermont Folklife Center
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/ - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington
http://www.ushmm.org/ - University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program
http://www.uaf.edu/library/oralhistory/index.html - University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Oral History Program
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/6265.cfm - University of Connecticut Center for Oral History
http://www.oralhistory.uconn.edu/ - University of Florida. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
http://www.history.ufl.edu/oral/ - University of Hawai'i Center for Oral History
http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/oral_hist/index.html - University of Nevada Oral History Program
http://oralhistory.unr.edu/ - US Library of Congress WPA Federal Writers' Project Life Stories
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html - USC Shoah Foundation Institute
http://college.usc.edu/vhi/ - Veterans History Project. American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/vets/ - Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu - Youngstown State University Oral History Program
http://www.as.ysu.edu/~histpres/
OTHER KEY SITES
- Brazil Oral History Association/Associação Brasileira de História Oral
http://www.cpdoc.fgv.br/abho - Brunei History Centre
http://www.history-centre.gov.bn/eng-s_research.htm - Centre for Popular Memory (South Africa)
http://www.popularmemory.org - Institut für Geschichte und Biographie/Institute for History and Biography (Germany)
http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/INST_GESCHUBIOG/welcome.shtml - Jamaica Memory Bank
http://www.instituteofjamaica.org.jm/ACIJ/jmb_main.html - Japan Oral History Association
http://www.joha.jp/site/index.php - Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV)/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (Netherlands)
http://www.kitlv.nl - National Archives of Singapore. Collection of Oral History Recording Database
http://cord.nhb.gov.sg/cord/public/internetSearch/ - National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
http://www.nla.gov.au/oh/ - National Library of Australia Oral History Directory
http://www.nla.gov.au/ohdir/ - National Oral History Association of New Zealand/Te Kete Körero-a-Waha o Te Motu
http://www.oralhistory.org.nz - National Oral History Programme (Barbados)
http://www.ncf.bb/ - Northside Folklore Project
http://www.ucc.ie/research/nfp - Oral and Pictorial Records Programme (Trinidad and Tobago)
http://www.mainlib.uwi.tt/ - Oral History Association of Australia
http://www.ohaa.net.au - Oral History Centre (Singapore)
http://www.a2o.com.sg/ - Oral History Centre, St Petersburg (Russia)
http://www.eu.spb.ru/en/history/oralhist.htm - The Hong Kong Heritage Project
https://www.hongkongheritage.org/html/eng/index.html - The Hong Kong Oral History Archives Project
http://www.hku.hk/hkcsp/oral.html - University of New South Wales Oral History Program, Sydney, Australia
http://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/ - WebCT Oral History Research in the Nordic-Baltic Area (Estonia)
http://webct.e-uni.ee/public/TUOHaLHRitNBA/index.html - Western Cape Oral History Project, University of Cape Town, South Africa
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/history/ohp1.htm
USEFUL LINK/SEARCH SITES
- 24 Hour Museum. News
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART17153.html - British National Corpus
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ - CommunityArchives.org,uk. The National Directory of Community Archives in the UK
http://www.communityarchives.org.uk/ - FamilyRecords.gov.uk. Official Source for family records
http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/ - GENUKI. United Kingdom and Ireland Emigration and Immigration
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Emigration.html - History in Focus. Guide to Historical Archives
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Migration/index.html - History Workshop Journal
http://hwj.oxfordjournals.org/ - Museums around the UK on the Web
http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/vlmp/uk.html - Qualidata - Qualitative Data Service
http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/ - The National Archives
http://www.ndad.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ - The Real Histories Directory
http://www.realhistories.millipedia.net/ - UK Archives on the Internet
http://www.archivesinfo.net/ - University of London Institute of Historical Research
http://www.ihr.sas.ac.uk/