Jan 30, 2020
Professor Alistair Thomson presented September 2019’s Talking
History lecture Forty Years On: The Transformations of Oral
History
Celebrating forty years since the creation of the Oral History
Association of Australia in 1979, current President of Oral History
Australia Alistair Thomson reflected on the transformations of oral
history across those years, in Australia and abroad. Starting with
the first interview with his grandmother in 1979, and covering both
community and academic oral history, Al drew on examples from his
own interviews with war veterans, migrants and in the Australian
Generations project to illuminate the history of oral history and
its abiding value and impact.