Here are some links to various oral history sites: organsiations, academic institutions, archives and ongoing or completed oral history work.


Spoken Histories

Spoken Histories is a specialist oral history company. Recording your personal, family, or corporate history in audio, visuals and print. We help people and companies to communicate their historical roots, for preservation, celebration and promotion.


The Sound Archive's collection attempts to represent a cross-section of experiences from the Boer War through the First and Second World Wars, post-war conflicts such as the Korean War and the Malayan Emergency to recent conflicts such as the Falklands and the Gulf.

New York born and Chicago bred oral historian with an ear for the working man and woman. This site uses sound, lots of it - hoorah!

The British Library Sound Archive, is one of the largest sound archives in the world. Opened in 1955 as the British Institute of Recorded Sound, it became part of the British Library in 1983.

The Oral History Society is a national and international organisation dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral history.
It encourages people of all ages to tape, video or write down their own and other people's life stories .

H-Oralhist is a network for scholars and professionals active in studies related to oral history.

Lively site, providing information on all things oral history, from jobs, to conferences to recent projects.

Worldwide network of oral history scholars, professionals, and researchers.
Working with community members and local partners, this project seeks to record people's memories and unique life experiences of the King's Cross area.
Age Exchange aims to improve the quality of life for older people by emphasising the value of their memories to old and young, through pioneering artistic, educational, and welfare activities.