Crossing Cultures: Oral History and Public History
by Jill Liddington and Graham Smith, Oral History Society
Abstract: Public history takes a past stretching from yesterday right back to prehistory; its concerns lie with the processes by which those parts are presented to a wide range of audiences and readerships, often by collaborative working between historians and other professionals. What does this mean for oral historians? Oral history broadly concerns remembered personal testimony, usually of the recent past, often recorded in a taped interview; its interests lie with the process of remembering the past, and of composing the past into spoken narrative. So, two chronologically different fields of study, two distinct processes – with important areas of overlap, fusion and perhaps even occassional friction.
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