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On Friday 15 April, the Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed (Cultural Heritage Agency) in cooperation with ‘Sprekende geschiedenis’ organised the second workshop on ‘Oral History and Heritage’ in Amersfoort. The workshop was about the technical aspects of oral history and about dreamlike public presentations. The workshop began with a brief …
Read moreThe ‘Sprekende geschiedenis’ Hub does not only focus on the Netherlands, but also on collections and projects from Flanders. That’s the task of our colleague Sofie Heyens, a Flemish Open University cultural studies student who is doing an internship with the Oral History Hub. She’s mapping out which museums, libraries, …
Read moreFor ‘One day I will be somebody’, historian Jan Bleyen listened to the experiences of Manso, his former student of Dutch: how he left Sierra Leone as a boy, became a man and has been living in Belgium for ten years, without papers. ‘Every time someone helps you, it …
Read moreOn 28 January, the Kick-off meeting of the Oral History Hub ‘Sprekende geschiedenis’ took place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Experts from various disciplines discussed the current state of oral history in the Netherlands, their future expectations and desirable developments in this area. The BMP …
Read moreOn Friday 18 March, the Cultural Heritage Agency in cooperation with the “Sprekende geschiedenis” Hub organised the first workshop on ‘Oral History and Heritage’ in Amersfoort. The workshop provided great examples and valuable insights. Oral history and heritage A group of about 25 people first received a short …
Read moreAre you looking for a volunteer job in your neighbourhood or can you use some help finding new volunteers? Erfgoedvrijwilliger.nl is the place for volunteers and volunteer organizations in the heritage sector. On the website there are several vacancies for volunteers, by province or type of work. For example, …
Read moreThe situation in Ukraine has not left anyone unmoved. There are many questions, uncertainties, expressions of support and actions to help. The harrowing situation reminds us of the war in the former Yugoslavia. As part of the ‘Unprecedentedly Special’ project, a whole series of oral history interviews were held with …
Read moreHow can you use oral history as a method to carefully record people’s life stories and testimonies about historical events? What is its added value for the heritage sector? These questions are the subject of the workshop series ‘Oral history and heritage’ on Friday 18 March and 15 April, organised …
Read moreThe Oral History Introduction Course introduces you to the basics of oral history. You will also be given literature and examples to work on. Between meetings, you’ll work on small assignments alone or in pairs. The course will deal with subjects such as: What is oral history? What can …
Read moreOn 28 January, the Kick-off meeting of the Oral History Hub “Sprekende geschiedenis” took place. This Kick-off meeting was organised to: Marking the start of the hub Announcing the programme of the hub Hearing from the oral history community in the Netherlands about their expectations of …
Read more“Sprekende geschiedenis” wants to make a link between different oral history collections. The aim is to make interviews searchable by the meaning that people give to the concept of freedom. In order to make this content link, volunteers will work on analysing a total of around 200 interviews and …
Read moreSprekende geschiedenis has taken the initiative to link different oral history collections around the concept of freedom. The idea is that interviews from the collections of the NIOD, the Netherlands Veterans Institute, the Ongekend Bijzonder project and an interview collection in The Hague, which has yet to be determined, will …
Read moreThe University of Leiden and Stichting Rotterdam Vertelt will transfer the collection of interviews to the Stadsarchief Rotterdam in a zoom meeting on Friday 26 November from 4 to 5 pm. The collection was created as part of the oral history project Storia de Nhas Pais (The story of my …
Read moreSaturday 6 and Sunday 7 November is the exhibition of the photos of Markante Bommelaars from 12.00 till 18.00 hours The book launch is on Sunday 7 November at 14.00 hrs. Gasthuiskapel Gasthuisstraat 34 5301 CC Zaltbommel
Read moreWhat exactly is the history of the Rotterdam women’s movement and what has it achieved in the past decades? That will be the subject of the exhibition ‘Gerse vrouwen’ at gallery and heritage lab DIG IT UP. If you want to participate, you can now register for an Oral History …
Read moreIn connection with her book Oral History: The People and Their Stories, Leydesdorff will talk to various experts about a field that has grown in recent decades into an internationally recognised form of historiography. The stream of the book’s presentation on 27 October 2021 can be viewed here: SPUI25.NL/PROGRAMMA/DE-MENSEN-EN-HUN-VERHALEN
Read moreOn 4 November 2021 Erfgoed Gelderland is organising the mini-symposium ‘Everyone Tells Their Stories’. During this afternoon various heritage organisations will demonstrate how they use oral history to enrich heritage and make it more appealing to a wider audience. The afternoon is primarily intended for members of Erfgoed Gelderland …
Read moreFrom 14 October 2021 to the beginning of March 2022, city archive Almere presents Women of Almere, an exhibition with 50 portraits of women from Almere who, like photographer Lyla Carrillo Quan – van der Kaaden, came to Almere from another country. The exhibition consists of photo portraits, audio recordings …
Read moreThe people and their stories Dealing with contemporary history is unthinkable without stories about the past. For years, historian Selma Leydesdorff played a central role in the development of oral history. In connection with her book Oral History: The People and Their Stories, Leydesdorff talks to various experts about a …
Read moreHow do you preserve – virtual and real – lived experiences? On 5 October, the Network for Archive Design and Digital Culture (NADD) is organising a knowledge session in which a number of strategies for archiving ‘living memory’ are discussed. During the workshop, practical examples from the fields of oral …
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