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VOOROORLOGS JOODS STRAATLEVEN – IN WOORD EN BEELD – SELMA LEYDESDORFF EN HARRY MOCK De mensen achter het Namenmonument | Het joodse proletariaat van Amsterdam | 1900-1940 en de werken van G.J. Staller In 1987, We lived as human beings: The Jewish proletariat of Amsterdam 1900-1940. In it, professor …
Read moreFor a history project after the summer, the Oral History Working Group of Numaga and the Regional Archives Nijmegen are looking for people with a heart for the history of Nijmegen. People who would like to know more about the history of the lower town and about the history of …
Read moreGet answers to all your questions at the Open Hour for the SGW community. A live Q&A every Monday. Join us for the weekly Open Hour from 10:00 to 11:00 (CEST) for the Social Sciences and Humanities community. The Open Hour is a live Q&A about Open Science, data …
Read moreSince this week, our country has an Islamic archive institution: the Netherlands Muslim Archive. It is an initiative that not only wants to preserve heritage, but also create more awareness of the cultural contribution of Muslims and Islam. The memory of Dutch Muslims The mission of the Netherlands Muslim …
Read moreThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has a vacancy for a Researcher Inventory Oral History Collections Indian Community – NIOD-KNAW. More information and application via link.
Read moreWomen’s stories 1920-1960 For a project about women from Boekel in the 1920s and 1960s, Martha van Eerdt is looking for women who recognise themselves in the class photo from 1964/1965. “I grew up in a Catholic village and in my time there were still separate boys’ and girls’ …
Read moreWhat is Freedom for you? On Thursday, May 19, the kick-off took place of the project ‘Freedom as a theme’ with ten young people from the Stagehuis Schilderswijk together with adult (ex) refugees at “Kwetu bij ons” in The Hague. The coming period they will work together on digital presentations …
Read moreOn the Faro platform , everyone involved with cultural heritage can discuss and contribute to the realisation of the Faro implementation agenda. An agenda with which we make proposals on how to translate the Faro Convention (Council of Europe) into concrete action in the Netherlands. Think about subjects such as …
Read moreOH-SMArt curator interview Foto: © Marjon Gemmeke Museums have unique recordings of spoken stories about artworks in their archives, but this ‘oral history’ is often difficult to access. In the Oral History – Stories at the Museum around Artworks (OH-SMArt) project, researchers from various Dutch institutions will greatly improve …
Read moreThe book Oral History – The People and Their Stories by our steering committee member Selma Leydesdorff (historian and emeritus professor at the University of Amsterdam) is on the longlist of the most important (non-fiction) books of 2021! A beautiful and deserved nomination! The longlist of the Prize for …
Read moreErfgoed Gelderland is developing unique oral history teaching materials in collaboration with the Gelderland War Museums, the University of Applied Sciences Arnhem Nijmegen and various vocational schools in Gelderland. The teaching materials are part of the project ‘Freedom and Citizenship’ and consist of five short films intended for vocational schools. …
Read moreIn cooperation with the National Committee 4 and 5 May, the BMP Foundation conducted a study in 2020 on how Bosnians and Iraqis in the Netherlands experience freedom, unfreedom and commemoration. Forty Bosnians and Iraqis who fled to the Netherlands in the 1990s concluded that we must continue to work …
Read moreOral history meets visual history 7,8 and 13 May 2022 By and from Amsterdam elderly people about the fifties in Amsterdam. The Fifties is the final part of a trilogy. The first performance Brand in Mokum was made by Loes Hegger with Amsterdam elderly people in 2019. The second …
Read moreOn 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 …
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