Selected Oral History Readings

Note: This reading list was developed for the IPHS Oral History Masterclass presented at the AESOP PhD Workshop June 2021.

Oral History Handbooks and Guides

Newcastle Region Library with Janis Wilton 2018, Oral History Handbook, available online at: https://newcastle.nsw.gov.au/Newcastle/media/eLibrary_documents/Oral-History-Handbook.pdf

Oral History Australia 2017, Guide to Oral History available online at: http://oralhistoryaustraliasant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Guide-to-Oral-History_SA-NT.pdf

Perks, Robert and Thomson, Alistair (eds) 2015, The Oral History Reader, Routledge, London (3rd edition. 1st published 1998). Available to download and/or read online at various sites.

Ritchie, Donald A 1994, Doing Oral History, Twayne Publishers, Toronto.

Robertson, Beth M 2015, Handbook of Oral History, Oral History Association of Australia, SA Branch, Adelaide (5th edition)

Oral History Research Methodology, Methods, Sources

Ames, Natalie & Diepstra, Stephene 2010, ‘Oral History Studies’, In Thyer, Bruce, The Handbook of Social Work Research Methods, SAGE Publications, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781544364902

Coghlan, David & Brydon-Miller, Mary 2014, ‘Oral History’, In The Sage Encyclopedia of Action Research, SAGE Publications, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406

Giles-Vernick, Tamara 2006, ‘Oral Histories: Oral Histories as Methods and Sources’, In Perecman, E. and Curan, S.A. A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays and Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods, SAGE Publications, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412983211

Given, Lisa 2008, ‘Oral History’, In The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods, SAGE Publications, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412963909

Hajek, Andrea 2014, ‘Oral History Methodology’, In SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 1, SAGE Publications, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013504183

Lewis-Beck, Michael, et al 2004, ‘Oral History’, In The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, SAGE Publications, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412950589

Thompson, Alistair & Perks, Robert 2019, ‘Oral History’, In SAGE Research Methods Foundation, SAGE Publications, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526421036778829

Yow, Valerie Raleigh 2015, Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences, third edition, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD.

Ethics and oral history interviews/sensitive qualitative research

Pascoe Leahy, Carla 2021, ‘The afterlife of interviews: explicit ethics and subtle ethics in sensitive or distressing qualitative research’, Qualitative Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211012924

Yow, Valerie Raleigh 2015, Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences, third edition, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD. (Especially Chapter 4.)

Oral History in Planning and in Planning, Architectural and Urban History

Adams, David & Larkham, Peter 2016, ‘Walking with the ghosts of the past: unearthing the value of residents’ urban nostalgias’, Urban Studies, 53 (10), pp. 2004-2022.

Adams, David & Larkham, Peter 2019, The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction and Regeneration: From Vision to Reality in Birmingham and Coventry, Routledge, Abingdon.

Freestone, Robert 2018, ‘Biographical Method’, In Hein, Carola (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Planning History, Routledge, London & NY, pp. 60-75.

Garnaut, Christine 1996, ‘Revealing Reminiscences: Charles Reade from his children’s perspective’, Planning History, vol. 18(2), pp. 20-25. Available online at: https://planninghistory.org/archives/planning-history-bulletin/

Garnaut, Christine 1996, ‘When Only the Memories Can Speak. Oral history creates a new resource’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 18, pp. 93-95.

Gold, John R. 1997, The Experience of Modernism: modern architects and the future city,1928-53, Spon, London.

Gold, John R. 2007, The Practice of Modernism: modern architects and urban transformation, 1954-72, Routledge, London.

Gosseye, Janina, Stead, Naomi, and van der Plaat, Deborah (eds) 2019, Speaking of buildings: oral history in architectural research, Princeton, NY.

Haselsberger, Beatrix 2017, Encounters in Planning Thought: 16 Autobiographical Essays from Key Thinkers in Spatial Planning, Routledge, NY.

McDougall, Alison and Garnaut, Christine 2010, ‘Navigating the personal to create the public: in search of South Australian architects’, Islands of Memory Revisited, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 32, pp. 34-42.

Park, Margaret 2001, Voices of a landscape: planning North Sydney, North Sydney Council, Sydney, NSW.

Pascoe, Carla 2010, ‘City as space, city as place: sources and the urban historian’, History Australia, no. 7(2), pp. 30.1-30.18, doi: 10.2104/ha100030

Peel, Mark 1994, ‘City of the future, city with a past’, In Darian-Smith, Kate & Hamilton, Paula (eds), Memory and history in twentieth century Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Victoria.

Sandercock, Leonie & Attili Giovanni (eds) 2010, Multimedia Explorations in Urban Planning: beyond the flatlands, Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789048132089

Collective memory

Assmann, Aleida 2011, Cultural Memory and Western Civilization. Functions, Media, Archives, Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/vi/academic/subjects/history/regional-and-world-history-general-interest/cultural-memory-and-western-civilization-functions-media-archives?format=PB

Assmann, Aleida 2007, Geschichte im Gedächtnis, C.H.Beck Verlag. https://www.chbeck.de/assmann-geschichte-gedaechtnis/product/20516

Assmann, Aleida 2006, Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit, C.H.Beck Verlag. https://www.chbeck.de/assmann-lange-schatten-vergangenheit/product/14027661

Assmann, Aleida & Shortt, Linda (eds) 2012, Memory and Political Change, Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230301993

Erll, Astrid 2011, Memory in culture, Palgrave Macmillan memory studies. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230297449

Halbwachs, Maurice 1992, On Collective Memory, The University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo3619875.html

Hofstede Geert 2001, Culture’s Consequences, Sage Publications. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/cultures-consequences/book9710#description

Hofstede, Geert & Hofstede, Gert-Jan 2005, Cultures and Organizations. Software of the Mind, McGrawHIll (2nd edition). 3rd edition available to download at: https://e-edu.nbu.bg/pluginfile.php/900222/mod_resource/content/1/G.Hofstede_G.J.Hofstede_M.Minkov%20-%20Cultures%20and%20Organizations%20-%20Software%20of%20the%20Mind%203rd_edition%202010.pdf

Localities, places and communities

American Communities: an oral history approach. African American experiences in Durham, North Carolina, http://www.duke.edu/web/hst195.15/.

Burge, Roslyn 2002, ‘Shoroc on a shoestring: the Depression and the 1930s in Sydney’s northern beaches’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 24, pp. 40-45.

Collins, Julie and Garnaut, Christine 2013, ‘Not for ourselves alone’: The South Australian Home Builders’ Club, 1945-1965, Architecture Museum, Adelaide and Crossing Press, Sydney.

Copeman, Gai & Vance, Diane (compilers) 1992, ‘It was a different town’: being some memories of Townsville and District 1942-1945, Thuringowa City Council, Thuringowa Central, Queensland.

Eklund, Eric 1997, ‘Memories of place: local history and oral evidence’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 19, pp. 73-77.

Garnaut, Christine 2000, ‘Tales from the people: at home in an Australian garden suburb’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 22, pp. 79-89.

Garnaut, Christine 2006, Colonel Light Gardens: model garden suburb, Crossing Press, Sydney, 1st published 1999.

Griffith, Gail 1987, ‘Oral history or nostalgia?: oral history and local historical societies’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 9, pp. 47-51.

Hall, Lianne 1997, Down the Bay: the changing foreshores of North Sydney, North Sydney Council, North Sydney, NSW.

Hardy, Charles 2006, ‘A people’s history of Philadelphia: reflections on community oral history projects and the uses of the past’, Oral History Review, no. 22(1), pp. 1-32.

Hareven, Tamara 1982, Family time and industrial time: the relationship between family and work in a New England industrial community, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

High, Steven 2011, ‘Mapping Memories of Displacement: Oral history, memoryscapes and mobile methodologies’ In Shelley Trower (ed), Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History, Palgrave Macmillan US.

Horne, Julia 1987, ‘Some expectations of local history and the relevance of oral history to these expectations’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 9, pp. 52-57.

Kijas, Johanna 2000, ‘Moving to the coast: narratives of belonging on the mid-north coast of New South Wales’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 22, pp. 90-97.

Maroske, Sara 1985, ‘Wives, housewives and mothers?: Wimmera farmwomen in the 1930s’, In Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 7, pp. 101-107.

McCalman, Janet 1984, Struggletown. Public and private life in Richmond 1900-1965, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria.

McHugh Siobhan 1989, The Snowy, William Heinemann, Melbourne, Victoria.

Morgan, George 2002, ‘Backyard narratives’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 24, pp. 46-48.

Park, Margaret & City West Development Corporation (compilers) 1997, Doors were always open: recollections of Pyrmont and Ultimo, City West Development Corporation, Pyrmont, NSW.

Park, Margaret 2001, Voices of a landscape: planning North Sydney, North Sydney Council, Sydney, NSW.

Pascoe, Carla 2010, ‘City as space, city as place: sources and the urban historian’, History Australia, no. 7(2), pp. 30.1-30.18, doi: 10.2104/ha100030

Peel, Mark 1994, ‘City of the future, city with a past’, In Darian-Smith, Kate & Hamilton, Paula (eds), Memory and history in twentieth century Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Victoria.

Peel, Mark 1995, Good times, hard times: the past and the future in Elizabeth, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria.

Portelli, Alessandro 2010, They say in Harlan County, Oxford University Press, New York, USA.

Puri, Anisa and Thomson, Alistair 2017, Australian Lives: An Intimate History, Monash University Press, Clayton Vic. (The result of the Australian Generations Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pXD_PIaxIE&feature=youtu.be.)

Read, Peter 1995, ‘My footprints are here: oral history and the attachment to place’, In Oral History Association of Australia Journal, no. 17, pp. 40-47.

Read, Peter 1996, Returning to nothing: the meaning of lost places, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

Riley, Mark & Harvey, David 2007, ‘Talking geography: on oral history and the practice of geography’, Social and Cultural Geography, no. 8(3), pp. 345-351.

Samuel, Raphael 1976, ‘Local history and oral history’, History Workshop, no. 1, pp. 191-208.

Shopes, Linda 1984, ‘Beyond trivia and nostalgia: collaborating in the construction of a local history, International Journal of Oral History, no. 5(3), pp. 151-158.

Shopes, Linda 2002, ‘Oral history and the study of communities: problems, paradoxes and possibilities’, Journal of American History, no. 89(2), pp. 588-599.

Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley, http://www.soundandstory.org/home.html.

Thomson, Alistair 2008, ‘Oral history and community history in Britain: personal and critical reflections on twenty-five years of continuity and change’, In Oral History, no 36(1), pp. 95-104.

Trower, Shelley 2011, Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Villareal, Mary 2006, ‘Finding our place: reconstructing community through oral history’, Oral History Review, no. 33(2), pp. 45-64.