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Do you have questions about oral history or just enjoy chatting to others working with oral histories? Join us this evening at 7pm for our free informal online meet-up. All welcome oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/event/networ... #OralHistory #Ireland #AskAnOralHistorian #Networking
October 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Hey @oralhistory!

You might be interested in Marlee S. Bunch's UNLEARNING THE HUSH: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

#OHA2025 #OralHistory #CivilRights #Education #BlackWomen
October 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM Everybody can reply
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Have a question you want to ask about oral histories or just feel like chatting with other oral historians? All welcome to this free online meet up this Thursday 7pm #OralHistory
📢Save the new date!📢

OHNI's 'Ask an Oral Historian' online session has moved from Thursday 2nd October to Thursday 16th October.

🗓️Please update your calendars and join us then for this free event.

oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/event/networ...

#OralHistory #AskAnOralHistorian #SharedStories #Free
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM Everybody can reply
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🎧 Need to archive oral histories? Join OHNI & @dri.ie for the Archiving Oral History ONLINE workshop, covering processes to ensure collections are preserved for future generations. #OralHistory

💻Friday 21st November, 3-5:30pm
🎟️Member €35/Non-Member €50
oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/event/archiv...
October 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM Everybody can reply
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If you're in Dublin tomorrow evening grab your ticket for this free event as part of Dublin Festival of History in Pearse Street Library #Oralhistory #Dublin
🎟️Only a few tickets left for OHNI's Dublin Festival of History event! It's happening this Monday at Pearse St Library.

All the info you need is below.

#OralHistory #HistFest2025 #OHNI #DublinLibraries #PearseStreet #Dublin
📢Last few days to secure your FREE ticket to the OHNI Dublin Festival of History event.

Final tickets remain— book yours today!

🗓️Monday 6th Oct, 6:30-7:30pm
📍Pearse Street Library, Dublin
🎟️Ticket info below.

#OralHistory #DublinFestivalOfHistory #PearseSt #OHNI @dublincitylibs.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM Everybody can reply
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Huge win! 🎉 The CLARIN Steven Krauwer Prize 2025 goes to LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ partners Pavel Ircing & Jan Švec (UWB). They won for their ASR tools for complex Oral History recordings. Their work is vital for global digital humanities!

#CLARIN #LINDAT #StevenKrauwerAward #ASR #OralHistory #DG
October 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM Everybody can reply
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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is excited to announce the launch of its new "Laboratory for #Multimodal History," an inclusive space for audiovisual experimentation and collaborative research headed by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn 🎙

🔗 bit.ly/4pB7tKl

#OralHistory #HistSci #HistMed
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM Everybody can reply
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Pictured: #Guinness barrels on the Lady Grania's maiden voyage from #Dublin to #Liverpool, 1953.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap

See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/r...

#OralHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory
September 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM Everybody can reply
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Born #OTD 1949, Mo Mowlam, Labour MP for Redcar, 1987-2001 and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, playing a decisive role in the Good Friday Agreement.

@emmapeplow.bsky.social reflects on her career and legacy, and how it has been discussed in our #OralHistory project. buff.ly/3ZGn5Z9
Mo Mowlam and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement - The History of Parliament
25 years ago this month the basis for peace in Northern Ireland – the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement – was signed after years of painstaking negotiations.
historyofparliament.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM Everybody can reply
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Long stories are my specialty, so I wrote a very short book. "Oral History: A Very Short Introduction" is a compact, comprehensive, and global overview of oral history. I'm so proud of this little book. Shipping October 10. Pre-order your copy today!
www.amazon.com/Oral-History...
#OralHistory
Oral History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Amazon.com: Oral History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions): 9780190067625: Boyd, Douglas A.: Books
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September 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM Everybody can reply
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📢📢📢Book your ticket now for the launch of the groundbreaking ‘Voices for Change’ Oral History of the UK Environmental Movement - a remarkable archive of 100 life story interviews with UK environmentalists 1970-2020
23rd Oct at the British Library. 👇
#activists #EnvironmentalMovement #oralhistory
Voices for Change: Stories from the Environmental Movement | British Library
Leaders of Greenpeace UK, Friends of the Earth, Natural England and the Green Party on 50 years of action.
events.bl.uk
September 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM Everybody can reply
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Far from being only about sex, these encounters highlight how queer practices disrupted territorialised space while also revealing the limits of intimacy in a troubled society.

#LGBTQHistory #OralHistory #TheTroubles #QueerHistory #SexualityAndSpace #IrishStudies #NorthernIreland #Cruising
September 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM Everybody can reply
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Born #OTD 1917, Denis Healey. Chancellor of the Exchequer during the economic crises of the late 1970s, and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in the turbulent early 1980s. Find out more about Healey's life and career via our #OralHistory interview. www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/oral-...
August 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM Everybody can reply
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🎙️The Bailieborough Living Memory Project, Co. Cavan is a new oral history initiative dedicated to capturing the stories, memories, and experiences of the community.

Do you have a story to share? Find out more here:
bailieboroughbridewell.com/bailieboroug...

#OralHistory #Cavan #Bailieborough
Bailieborough Living Memory Project - Bailieborough Bridewell
An upcoming oral history initiative that will gather stories and information from those who’ve lived, worked and grown up in the Bailieborough area.
bailieboroughbridewell.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM Everybody can reply
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A passionate group of librarians/historians speaking about oral history in our national and state and territory libraries.

#oralhistoryconference #oralhistory
November 22, 2024 at 1:28 AM Everybody can reply
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What other #OralHistory advice can you offer? Such a great way to add to your #FamilyHistory
Listening is the key to oral history. It is important that the narrator feels you are interested in what they have to say. Give them time to think and answer. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/collecting-o...
April 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM Everybody can reply
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Our February #oralhistory spotlights Raleigh "Curly" Hall - a longtime #JamaicaQueens resident & member of The Federation of #BlackCowboys. Hall discusses his love of #horses since childhood and his involvement in the Federation since 2000. Full interview here: buff.ly/4105LUg
Raleigh (Curly) Hall Oral History
Clip 1:  Curly Hall speaks of his experience becoming a drummer. He used to play the drums for dance classes at Bernice Johnson Dance Studio in Jamaica and he did drumming gigs on weekends for orchest...
buff.ly
February 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM Everybody can reply
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Continuing @ArchAHeritage research for a company's centenary publication today- the first set of oral history interviews with former employees - really looking forward to hearing their stories and experiences.
#OralHistory
November 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM Everybody can reply
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Hey! Are you a current MA or recent grad in History, #PublicHistory, or other fields linked to immigration, looking for a paid summer internship in #OralHistory?

Work with our research team at the Canadian Museum of Immigration! (Remote work is ok too!)

pier21jobs.applytojobs.ca/research/38306
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Job Board - Research Intern – Full Time
Job vacancy for the role of Research Intern – Full Time
pier21jobs.applytojobs.ca
May 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM Everybody can reply
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3/14 Less than 200 years ago, families would travel en masse in cedar canoes from their summer village to territories on southern Vancouver Island.

Elder Arvid Charlie described the yearly harvest of sockeye, pink salmon and blueberries.
#OralHistory #TraditionalTerritory
August 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM Everybody can reply
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Talks by Brian Kernighan are mostly entertaining, but rare. The most recent one I'm aware of was at this years VCF East (April 2025). It's about the history of UNIX and his time at Bell Labs. Enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEb_... #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #oralhistory #technistory #unix
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
YouTube video by Vintage Computer Federation
www.youtube.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM Everybody can reply
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