The links below
will take you to other sites that record everyday life and life stories.
Our links are in these categories:
Oral
history
Community history
Family history
Diaries and journals
Other life story sites
We've also collected links about
the history of Brighton & Hove and Sussex (our local area)
for the links
page of QueenSpark Books.
oral history
Yahoo!
- listing for Oral History
A good enough starting-point for getting an idea of the range of oral
history sites on the web.
H-Oralhist
HOME PAGE
H-Oralhist is a network for scholars and professionals active in studies
related to oral history.
Oral
History Society Home Page
The UK Oral History Society is a national and international organisation
dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral history.
The
British Library National Sound Archive
One of the largest sound archives in the world. The collections cover
the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature
to oral history and wildlife sound from the end of the 19th century
to the present day.
BBC
Education - 20CVox
Twentieth Century Vox provides listeners with a colourful and representative
archive of oral history. The clips you find on this site are short
montages (4 - 5 minutes long) giving a human perspective on how events
and development shaped daily lives.
Free
Speech Movement: Student Protest - U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65
Searchable transcripts of oral history interviews about the American
Free Speech movement.
Journal
for MultiMedia History - Volume 2, 1999 Contents Page
Online magazine featuring an award-winning oral history audio 'essay'.
The
Whole World Was Watching
An oral history of 1968, a much-linked-to joint project between South
Kingstown High School and Brown University's Scholarly Technology
Group
Sonic
Memorial project
Sound archive commemorating
the history of the twin towers and the events of 9/11
Historical
Voices
Particularly the
The Flint Sit-Down Strike and Studs Terkel: Conversations with America.
Historical
Voices Oral History Tutorial
They've so far
completed one about Audio Techology - in some places very technical,
but very authoritative.
Holocaust
Survivors
Survivor stories
and photographs
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community history
Century
Road - BBC Education
Extracts from the BBC programme that interviewed people who lived
in streets called Century Roads up and down the UK. Includes 'how
to do oral history' information and an interview with Steve Thompson
of Wolf FM,
a community radio station featuring oral ihstory.
Australia
Street
In their words: Scattered across the cities, suburbs and towns
of Australia are streets named Australia Street. The Australia Street
Archive is a snapshot taken in 1994-5 of a small number of homes in
these streets, and the people who made them.
Highfields
Remembered
Reminiscences and oral history from people who lived in Highfields,
in Leicester, UK, over the last eighty years. Highfields has been
home to possibly a wider range of cultures than any other area of
Leicester.
Open
University Family and Community History Home Page
Home page of the O.U. course for active or would-be researchers in
Family and Community History.
Center
for Documentary Studies
This is an independent nonprofit organization affiliated with Duke
University in the USA. Documentarians - beginners and professionals,
young and old - who work with the Center use photography, oral history,
film, and narrative writing to bring to light stories of lives and
events that they find relevant to larger community, historical, and
cultural questions and themes.
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family history
The sites below focus on recording
interviews with living family members (not on geneology, which is
another, booming area of interest on the Web). The Association of
Personal Historians seem to be mainly small businesses who help people
record family memories.
Center
for Life Stories Preservation
In their words: 'The Center for Life Stories Preservation has
been on-line since 1996...We're committed to being an ongoing resource
for families and individuals interested in capturing their family
and life stories.'
Association
of Personal Historians
In their words: 'The Association of Personal Historians is
an organization whose members are dedicated to helping others preserve
their personal histories and life stories. '
Open
University Family and Community History Home Page
Home page of the O.U. course for active or would-be researchers in
Family and Community History
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diaries
and journals
Mass-Observation
Archive
The Archive, based at the University of Sussex, specialises in collecting
writing by ordinary people about everyday life in Britain. It builds
on the work of a social research organisation that was active from
1937 to the early 1950s.
The
Diary Project
In their words: The Diary Project was launched in September
1995. The inspiration came from a young girl by the name of Zlata
Filipovic, author of "Zlata's Diary; A Child's Life in Sarajevo,"
an internationally acclaimed book about her life growing up in war-torn
Sarajevo. We invite YOU to record your thoughts and experiences.
Diarist.Net
In their words: 'Welcome to Diarist.Net, a comprehensive
starting-point for both writers and readers of online journals. With
new content every week and even more features in the works, we've
got everything you need to know all about the people who tell all.
The
Open Pages
In their words: 'Welcome to the home page of Open Pages, a
community of people who share their everyday lives online. Established
in July of 1996, Open Pages is the premiere guide to the "scribe
tribe" -- netizens who keep put journals, diaries, daily ramblings
and sporadic babblings on the web.'
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other life story sites
just
In their words: just is a print and electronic
publication; a collection of first-hand accounts from all parts of
society-- administrators, recipients, workers, idlers, adults, children,
the rich, the poor, the comfortable and the disenfranchised; stories,
unique resource listings, and funny things.
Real
People, Real Lives
In their words: Behind each net address, a real person
is busy living out a lifetime...I want to recognize and compile a
list of truly personal home pages that tell real, honest stories about
their creators. Here, then, are the real stories I've found so far...
A list of links created by Gerry Manacsa