An Introduction to Oral History

15 March 2010

Event Type: Research Training

Description:

(Mondays, 18 January – 29 March 2010)

This course addresses theoretical and practical issues in oral history through workshop sessions and participants’ own interviewing work. It deals with the historiographical emergence and uses of oral history, with particular reference to the investigation of voices and stories not always accessible to other historical approaches. It will examine theoretical and methodological issues, for instance concerning memory, the interviewing relationship, ethics and the uses to which recordings may be put. And it will help students to develop practical skills in interviewing, recording, the preservation of cassettes and the organization and preservation of oral material. The course fee is £200.

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