0 information about a historical event or period that is told to you by people who experienced it
1 recorded information about the past that has been collected from the speech of people who were there, or a book based on such information
A second key element of oral history consists in its unique nature as a means to understand memory.
Oral history is now a well-established part of historical methodology, which has moved into the mainstream from its radical origins of the 1960s and 1970s.
Especially in more marginal settings the significance of oral history, as it were, may be drastically greater than within the mainstream.
However, if memorywork is the central focus for the oral history interviewer, then the relationship between interviewer and interviewee needs to be unpacked more carefully.
Oral history would be a key way of examining some of these issues in more detail and in a more multi-layered fashion.
It is within this tradition that oral history developed in the late 1960s.
This later study, thirty-seven years on, considers the nature of change over that period, and uses similar methods of oral history to do so.
He breaks from the more romantic uses of oral history, but still stresses the need for empirical rigour.
