The four-day Graduate Oral History Intensive scheduled for October 2026 has been postponed till March 2027. The new training dates are Friday 5 March and Saturday 6 March, and Friday 19 March and Saturday 20 March 2027. If you registered for…
The OHV AGM will be held online, 5.30pm Monday 23rd November 2026. A formal notice and agenda will be sent to members before the event. We hope to see as many of our members as possible at the annual meeting.
Do you enjoy engaging in constructive discussion about oral history with diverse members of the oral history community? Do you want to be part of a team shaping action to support oral history in Victoria? Nominations for the 2027 committee…
Curtin University PhD student Sam Scott has recently joined the OHV committee of management. Sam’s recently completed thesis explores the Chilean diaspora in Melbourne. We are delighted to have Sam on board. Sam’s arrival follows the departure of Gerard Callinan…
Oral history extraordinaire Doug Boyd is visiting Melbourne in December and will give an in-person talk on artificial intelligence and oral history on the evening of Tuesday 8th December 2026. The talk will follow his keynote address at the Biennial OHA…
Four grants available to attend the 2026 OHA Conference in South Australia!
There has been an extension for entries to the 2026 Victorian Community History Awards, which include a dedicated oral history award, are now open. The new closing date is 5pm on July 7. The Victorian Community History Awards are proudly…
A recording of Oral History Victoria’s latest Talking about Listening event featuring Oral History Handbook author Beth Robertson and former OHV president Alice Garner is now available online. The Talking about Listening occasional series involves two oral historians discussing oral…
A free online guide and training package for community history groups that wish to create and preserve oral history collections is now available on the Oral History Victoria (OHV) website. Although developed specifically for Victorian community history groups, the package…
A final report and online database is now available as part of the Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project. The project, which ran from July 2024 to November 2025, was led by oral historian and Research Project Manager Dr…