East Midlands Oral History Archive
Training links
The East Midlands Oral History Archive provides training in oral history to people in the East Midlands and the world via a variety of web resources. You may also find the following websites useful:
Oral history
- : A layman's introduction to field techniques for collecting folklife. Lots of good advice.
- : Offers a series of invaluable on-line guides on the theory and practice of oral history. Includes a workshop for teachers, notes on using video.
- : Oral History Guidance is an invaluable aid for anyone planning oral history projects, even you are not applying for lottery funding.
- : Oral History Techniques: How to Organize and Conduct Oral History Interviews.
- is a guide to the history of oral history by Graham Smith.
- : History Matters' guide to oral history, by Linda Shopes. Useful material on interpreting oral history.
- : Useful, well written, downloadable guides.
- : Capturing the Living Past: An Oral History Primer.
- is a downloadable book by Graham Smith which is about using oral history in higher education.
- . Many resources. Includes links to other projects and oral history networks, a guide to digital technology, and guidelines for using oral history in the classroom.
- has advice about almost every aspect of oral history and features many excellent videos.
- : Useful information about how to do oral history, copyright and ethics, archiving and most other issues related to oral history.
- : a pdf from what was English Heritage.
- has a downloadable oral history guide and examples of copyright forms.
- by Judith Moyer. A useful guide which is thorough and easy to follow.
- has published a 16 page booklet called 'Fundamentals of Oral History' which you can print from the website.
- has training video clips which illustrate each stage of an oral history project.
- : book by Stephen J Lofgren.
Audio equipment
- : An excellent guide to current recording technology.
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YouTube
A quick and easy way to find oral history on the internet is to go to and search for 'oral history'. As well as excerpts from oral history interviews there are several examples of people talking about oral history generally.
- EMOHA's video.
- A series of '' videos from Minnesota Historical Society.
- The video channel for the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries featuring the director, Doug Boyd, contains a about setting recording levels and reviews of several digital recorders. Some of these can also be found on the Oral History Society website (above).
Recording advice
General advice about recording sound and vision for radio, television or film can be found at these websites:
- (video and audio resources and advice)
- (resources for digital storytelling)
Digital tools
- is a list of existing and emergent digital tools which are of use to oral historians.
- is Doug Boyd's blog on oral history and all things digital.
Examples of websites which synchronise audio/video to transcript
- OHMS is the oral history metadata synchroniser developed by the the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky. You can learn more at . Some of the Center's online oral histories use this technology and can be .
- logs its interviews by themes and links these to segments of the video/audio, as well as linking the transcript to the audio/video.
- The uses Digital Video Library (DVL) technology created and pioneered by Carnegie Mellon University.