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From 2011 to 2014, the Australian Generations Oral History Project
recorded 300 interviews with Australians born between 1920 and
1989. The contributions to this book, a result of this project,
reflect on the practice of oral history and how interviews can
illuminate Australian social and cultural history. Three of the
chapters consider oral history innovations: focusing on the
potential for oral history in a digital age, the pioneering
technologies that underpinned Australian Generations and the
ethical issues posed by online digital oral history, and the
challenges and opportunities for radio oral history. In addition,
four chapters demonstrate how oral history interviews can be used
as rich evidence for historical research: examining the
interconnections between class, social equity, and higher education
in post-war Australia; how life histories can transform
understandings of mental ill-health; considering how oral history
interviews with Australians of all ages confound stereotypical
notions about generations; and investigating the ways in which
family relationships mediate identities and how remembered places
and objects provide points of anchor in a rapidly changing world.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Australian
Historical Studies.
From 2011 to 2014, the Australian Generations Oral History Project
recorded 300 interviews with Australians born between 1920 and
1989. The contributions to this book, a result of this project,
reflect on the practice of oral history and how interviews can
illuminate Australian social and cultural history. Three of the
chapters consider oral history innovations: focusing on the
potential for oral history in a digital age, the pioneering
technologies that underpinned Australian Generations and the
ethical issues posed by online digital oral history, and the
challenges and opportunities for radio oral history. In addition,
four chapters demonstrate how oral history interviews can be used
as rich evidence for historical research: examining the
interconnections between class, social equity, and higher education
in post-war Australia; how life histories can transform
understandings of mental ill-health; considering how oral history
interviews with Australians of all ages confound stereotypical
notions about generations; and investigating the ways in which
family relationships mediate identities and how remembered places
and objects provide points of anchor in a rapidly changing world.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Australian
Historical Studies.
The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a
comprehensive, international anthology combining major, 'classic'
articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of
oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most
significant developments in oral history in the last decade to
bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions
and the senses, on crisis oral history, current thinking around
traumatic memory, the impact of digital mobile technologies, and
how oral history is being used in public contexts, with more
international examples to draw in work from North and South
America, Britain and Europe, Australasia, Asia and Africa. Arranged
in five thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editors
to contextualise the selection and review relevant literature,
articles in this collection draw upon diverse oral history
experiences to examine issues including: Key debates in the
development of oral history over the past seventy years First hand
reflections on interview practice, and issues posed by the
interview relationship The nature of memory and its significance in
oral history The practical and ethical issues surrounding the
interpretation, presentation and public use of oral testimonies how
oral history projects contribute to the study of the past and
involve the wider community. The challenges and contributions of
oral history projects committed to advocacy and empowerment With a
revised and updated bibliography and useful contacts list, as well
as a dedicated online resources page, this third edition of The
Oral History Reader is the perfect tool for those encountering oral
history for the first time, as well as for seasoned practitioners.
The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a
comprehensive, international anthology combining major, 'classic'
articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of
oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most
significant developments in oral history in the last decade to
bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions
and the senses, on crisis oral history, current thinking around
traumatic memory, the impact of digital mobile technologies, and
how oral history is being used in public contexts, with more
international examples to draw in work from North and South
America, Britain and Europe, Australasia, Asia and Africa. Arranged
in five thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editors
to contextualise the selection and review relevant literature,
articles in this collection draw upon diverse oral history
experiences to examine issues including: Key debates in the
development of oral history over the past seventy years First hand
reflections on interview practice, and issues posed by the
interview relationship The nature of memory and its significance in
oral history The practical and ethical issues surrounding the
interpretation, presentation and public use of oral testimonies how
oral history projects contribute to the study of the past and
involve the wider community. The challenges and contributions of
oral history projects committed to advocacy and empowerment With a
revised and updated bibliography and useful contacts list, as well
as a dedicated online resources page, this third edition of The
Oral History Reader is the perfect tool for those encountering oral
history for the first time, as well as for seasoned practitioners.
"I'm not a good mother -- not what Dr. Spock calls a 'slow mother'
who leaves her chores to make sure junior gets the right
treatment." (Dorothy Wright, 1961)
"I must admit that I am no longer the same person who was tied to
the kitchen sink at home." (Phyllis Cave, 1973)
This book represents a unique collaboration between a historian and
four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family
photographers and memoirists. As British migrants to Australia
these women recorded in intimate detail aspects of everyday life
and women's experience that are often lost to history: childcare
and housework, housing and domestic appliances, friendship, family
and married life. Taken together, their stories enrich and
complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century
women's history.
This book will appeal to students and academics interested in
British and Australian social history, oral history, women's
studies and the lived experience of migration.
What is taboo in any family or in any society is never fixed. And
neither is that body of family information which everybody knows
but no one talks about. Mental illness is one such subject, and it
created a kind of fence around one central element of Thomson's
work in the 1980s - his grandfather Hector's story. He has had the
courage to take that fence down and use a range of sources to enter
the no man's land of suffering and isolation which was a part of
his grandfather's life, and perforce, that of his grandmother and
the young child who became his father. When the first edition was
in preparation, Alistair Thomson's father objected strenuously to
any mention in the book of his father's (Alistair's grandfather's)
mental illness; reluctantly Alistair agreed to leave out the
subject. We can understand why the author's father, himself a
soldier, felt so strongly. The images were too hard to bear for the
man who was a young boy in the 1930s, living through very, very
hard times with his disturbed father after his mother's death. Now,
afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, but still able to read the
text, he gave his son permission to tell the story. And it is a
compelling and important one. From that story, we see the price
families and in particular wives paid for the multiple wounds men
brought home with them from war. What the second edition shows was
the sheer force of survival in his grandmother Nell, who had not
only the handful of two small boys to raise, but a damaged husband
to support. And making her life harder still was that her husband's
disability was very hard to define precisely....We know that the
damage war does to families is generational; it doesn't stop when
the shooting stops. It is passed on indirectly from father to son
to grandson, and to the women with whom they live. By retelling his
family's story, Alistair Thomson has been able to fashion a moving
portrait of his family: his grandmother Nell, and after her death,
of their sons, Al's dad and his uncle, still children, having cold
mutton for Christmas dinner, alone with their father, a soldier of
the Great War. -- Jay Winter, Yale University *** Anzac Memories
was first published to acclaim in 1994 (by Oxford University Press)
and has achieved international renown for its pioneering
contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. War
historian Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave "as good a
picture of the impact of the Great War on individuals and Australia
as we are likely to get in this generation," and historian Michael
Roper concluded that "an immense achievement of this book is that
it so clearly illuminates the historical processes that left men
like my grandfather forever struggling to fashion myths which they
could live by." In this second edition, author Alistair Thomson
explores how the Anzac legend has been transformed over the past
quarter century, how a 'post-memory' of World War I creates new
challenges and opportunities for making sense of Australia's
national past, and how veterans' war memories can still challenge
and complicate national mythologies. Thomson returns to a family
war history that he could not write about 20 years ago because of
the stigma of war and mental illness, and he uses newly-released
Repatriation files to question his own earlier account of veterans'
post-war lives and memories and to think afresh about war and
memory. (Series: Monash Classics)
More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the
1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is
their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant
life histories, this is the first substantial history of their
experience and fills a gaping hole in the literature of emigration.
The authors, both leading figures in the fields of oral history and
migration studies, draw upon a rich life history archive of
letters, diaries, personal photographs and hundreds of oral history
interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in
Australia and those who returned to Britain. They offer original
interpretations of key historical themes, including: motivations
for emigration; gender relations and the family dynamics of
migration; the 'very familiar and awfully strange' confrontation
with the new world; the anguish of homesickness and return; and the
personal and national identities of both settlers and returnees,
fifty years on. Accessible and appealing, this book will engage
readers interested in British and Australian migration history and
intrigued about the significance of migrant memories for
individuals, families and nations. -- .
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