The Oral History Australia (OHA) journal is to be renamed Studies in Oral History from the next issue due later this year. Changing the title was first proposed and discussed at the 2019 OHA Biennial Conference in a session seeking member input…
The Australian Historical Association (AHA) has announced the winners of its 2020 annual and biennial prizes and awards and a number of oral historians feature among the recipients. Congratulations to: Karen Twigg for winning the Jill Roe Prize for the best…
Oral History Australia Journal The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming every aspect of our lives: home, work, school, socialising and leisure. In particular, social distancing requirements and travel restrictions have affected the research plans of many historians and oral historians are…
Oral History Australia is delighted to announce the following winners of the inaugural Oral History Australia Awards. ORAL HISTORY AUSTRALIA BOOK AWARD 2019 Black Saturday: not the end of the story Author: Peg Fraser Monash University Publishing, 2018, Web address: )…
Given the circumstances of the global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) Oral History Australia is advising that oral historians postpone face-to-face interviews until further notice. There are many remote means of interviewing people such as Zoom, Webex and Skype. We note, however,…
Oral History Australia is very excited to announce two new national awards for oral historians: the Oral History Australia Book Award, and the Oral History Australia Media Award. The awards are to be presented every two years with the first…
The National Library of Australia will next week farewell one of its leading oral history professionals when Shelly Grant retires after more than three decades of public service. Shelly began work at the National Library of Australia (NLA) in 1984 when…
Congratulations to Dr Sue Anderson on being elected President of the International Oral HistoryAssociation at the biannual conference in Finland last week. Sue is the immediate past president of Oral History Australia and editor of the OHA Journal. A lecturer…
Our 2017 conference is done and dusted. Read reports on the conference by: CHENG Nien Yuan, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney’s Department of Theatre and Performance Studies Hamish Sewell, member, Queensland. View: our photo gallery from the…