H-OralHist

Location: The West End Branch Library, 151 Cambridge St. Boston MA 02114

Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM 

Get to know other Boston area folks who are:

• Interested in oral history
• Planning or in the midst of an oral history project
• Work in public history or memory work
• Interested in community history

Join us for this casual and fun networking event. There will be an optional presentation where folks can give a 2-minute informal elevator pitch to the group about your oral history project, ambitions, and/or interests.

The Oral History Network of Ireland (OHNI) is delighted to announce details of its 2025 annual meeting, which will take place in the Absolute Hotel, Limerick on 13-14 June 2025.

This year’s meeting is based on the theme ‘What we say and how we say it: exploring words, silences and language in oral history’. It focuses on what is said, how it is said, and what is not said during an oral history interview. The languages, dialects and even sentence structures we use, shape how we communicate and how we are understood.

Calling all Boston-area historians!

We are extending the deadline for submitting History Slam presentations to Friday, April 11. Please share this opportunity widely. 

Boston Public Library is hosting our first history slam on April 29. What is a history slam? Think of a PowerPoint party with bibliographies. We are looking for presenters to share a short PowerPoint presentation on stories of local neighborhood action, community changemakers, or civic engagement. The presentations should be no more than 7 minutes and only 7 slides.

Call for Applications: Announcing the Launch of the Sharing Stories from 1977 Editorial Fellows Program

New Deadline: April 15, 2025

Application Site: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EPboKDMgxT-l2Q2TcSwrZ5BcULZeR-p2uHFfdMKvwAA/viewform?edit_requested=true