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British Library : 23,700 Audio Tracks
http://sounds.bl.uk/
British Library : 23,700 Rare Audio Tracks Online
Oral Hisotry section includes
-Art, photography and architecture
-Early spoken word recordings
-Eminent scientists
-History of the Common Cold Unit
-Jewish survivors of the Holocaust
-Oral history of jazz in Britain
-Oral history of recorded sound
-St Mary-le-Bow public debates

Ten Famous Speeches in American History
http://tr.im/rmee
Ten Famous Speeches in American History
Listen to ten of the most famous historical speeches in American history.
Top 10 free speeches from American history from famous speakers such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and more.
| Gettysburg Address | I Have a Dream Audio and Video | Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" Speech | Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. | D-Day Pre-Invasion Address to Soldiers | Speech on Women's Right to Vote | First Inaugural Address of President George Washington | John F. Kennedy Speeches: The Inaugural Address | Daniel Webster's Plymouth Oration | I've Been to the Mountaintop |
You can check them all out by clicking the links ....

Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
http://digital.library.unlv.edu/ntsohp/
Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
A comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the Nevada Test Site during the era of Cold War nuclear testing.

Voices of Feminism Oral History Project
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/vof/vof-intro.html
Voices of Feminism Oral History Project
The Voices of Feminism Oral History Project documents the persistence and diversity of organizing for women in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century.
Narrators include labor, peace, and anti-racism activists; artists and writers; lesbian rights advocates; grassroots anti-violence and anti-poverty organizers; and women of color reproductive justice leaders. Interviews average 5-6 hours and cover childhood, personal life, and political work.

SpokenWord
http://www.spokenword.org
SpokenWord.org is a free non-profit service that helps you find, manage and share audio and video spoken-word recordings.
All of the recordings are found elsewhere on the Web and submitted to our database by members like you.
SpokenWord.org isn't a place to upload videos or podcasts. It's a directory and a search engine where you can find the best audio and video spoken-word recordings regardless of where they are published.

Oral History and Digital Storytelling (video)
http://tinyurl.com/rhm7s
Vloggercon: Oral History and Digital Storytelling (presentation) .. online video

Digital Storytelling Area on Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/dstorytell/
Link to the Digital Storytelling Area on Shambles

YackLearning
http://www.yacklearning.net/
YackLearning : this may be a useful free resource to use is making recording for an oral history project
YackLearning is a powerful new way to teach and learn through audio messaging. Various Internet companies allow you to create and share audio messages. We recommend using YackPack, because it's private, it's easy to use, and it offers true interpersonal podcasting.

Oral History : Chemists
http://www.chemheritage.org/exhibits/ex-nav2.html
The Oral History Program at the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation aims to create a collection of comprehensive, professionally edited interviews with leading figures in the chemical and molecular sciences and related process industries to provide autobiographical accounts that supplement material already available in the written record.
As of November 2005, CHF has conducted more than 300 oral history interviews, more than 250 of which are ready and available for use by researchers.

New Orleans Disaster Oral History Project 2005
http://www.aliveintruth.org/
New Orleans Disaster Oral History Project 2005

World War Two Experiences
http://www.apple.com/uk/education/ilife/examples/history.html
World War Two Experiences
An oral history project where recollections from World War Two are set to archive images of that period.
To enable pupils to understand the effect that World War 2 had on the lives of people at the time and to relate those events to their current surroundings.
Resources used: A scanner, iPod with Belkin Voice Recorder, iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie HD and iDVD, Internet access.

Oral History
http://www.42explore2.com/oralhst.htm
Oral History
"Oral history is a method of gathering and preserving historical information through recorded interviews of people about past events and ways of life" (Oral History Association). The term encompasses a wide range of practices that are loosely connected by a common methodology. Oral history methods pair the oldest type of historical inquiry, evoking spoken word responses that predates writing, with relatively modern technologies, audio and video recording.

Oral History Interview Guidelines
http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/oralhistguidelines.pdf
Oral History Interview Guidelines from the History Channel (pdf file)

Using Oral History : Lesson Overview
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html
Using Oral History : Lesson Overview
This lesson presents social history content and topics through the voices of ordinary people. It draws on primary sources from the American Memory Collection, American Life Histories, 1936-1940.
Using excerpts from the collection, students study social history topics through interviews that recount the lives of ordinary Americans. Based on these excerpts and further research in the collections, students develop their own research questions. They then plan and conduct oral history interviews with members of their communities.

Voices and Recordings Online (other area on Shambles)
http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/voices/
Voices and Recordings Online (other area on Shambles)

How to do Oral History
http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/advice/
How to do Oral History
Everyone has a story to tell about their life which is unique to them. Some people have been involved in momentous historical events like the Second World War, but many others haven't. Regardless of age or importance we all have interesting experiences to share.
Unfortunately, because memories die when people do, if we don't record what people tell us it is history that is lost for ever.
What is Oral History? | What Can People Remember? | Where you Start | Finding someone to interview | Planning | Preparing questions | Recording Equipment | Audio recorders | Microphones | Video | Approaching people | Doing the interview | After the interview |