Oral History
 

Oral History

Our e-Book course ‘Oral History for beginners’ is based on Ken Howarth’s now out of print widely acclaimed manual on oral history. Click here for more information.

Special launch price £25 ($42.45 US) Includes free email back up and advice for one month.


 

 

The Oral History Download Centre

All eBooks are in Microsoft Reader format unless otherwise stated.

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Courses and training

  • A beginner’s guide to Oral History. A basic course introducing community project based oral history. The guide includes an introduction to OH, equipment, preparing questions, basic interviewing, copyright and clearance, an introduction to indexing, cataloguing & transcription. Uses of oral history & a section on point & shoot photos of informants.

Coming soon!

  • Oral History in the classroom
  • Oral History and the elderly.

Advanced Oral History

  • Interviewing. Advanced interviewing techniques.
  • Oral History for heritage interpreters. E.g. heritage centres, national parks, historic buildings etc.
  • Oral History for museums and archives
  • How to archive your recordings

Online-services

  • Question sheet preparation by email. (£5 - £25 UKP, $10 -$50 US, €EUROS 7 - €32, $AUS 1-55) Click here for details and free estimate.

FREE Information downloads

  • A code of ethics ~ click here (pdf)
  • Clearance etc. A specimen UK style deposit agreement and clearance note ~ click here (pdf)
  • Ten Top Tips ~ click here (Microsoft Reader format)
  • Sample Oral History ebook/transcription with embedded MP3 audio file. ~ click here
    (Please note this is in DNL format and you will need to download a free player to enjoy the eBook sample. Full simple instructions will be given at the start of the download.)
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