Morgan Thomas Room, State Library of South Australia Friday 14 February 2025 10am – 3.30pm This workshop introduces oral history practice, focusing on research, ethics, equipment, interviewing techniques and will include a discussion on podcasting and the local oral history collection. It is suitable for community volunteers, family historians, students or anyone with an interest in recording oral histories, creating
Christeen Schoepf, our OHA SA/NT President, will be talking about the conservation, storage and oral history of artefacts at the Kingston SE Branch of the National Trust of South Australia 60th Anniversary! To commemorate this special occasion, there will be a Local and Family History Weekend on the 21st and 22nd of September. This two-day event offers a rich program
Writing engaging non-fiction Please come along to a workshop with best-selling author and community historian Liz Harfull, which will explore techniques to help people write engaging history. This four-hour workshop is particularly suited to people planning to write family and community histories, from beginners wondering how to make a start to writers with some experience who want to improve their
Workshop: Turning Oral History Interviews into a Prize-Winning Book Non-fiction author Kristin Weidenbach will share her tips and advice on how to incorporate interview material and oral accounts into book-length works of memoir, family history and biography. Using her Reed Family History Book Award winner Growing up Moonta as a guide, Kristin will discuss how to structure your story, how