Summary: | Ronald J. Grele presents the stages of development, as well as main streams that make up contemporary oral history – from archiving, through social and educational activities, to historical research. The most noteworthy of these are aspects that constitute a part of the new social history, which implement the postulate of recording and extracting the grassroots perspective on history.
[Translation based on: R.J. Grele, “Oral History as Evidence”, [in:] Handbook of Oral History, T.L. Charlton, L.E. Myers, R. Sharpless (eds.), Oxford 2006, p. 43–101. The permission to publish the translated version of the article has been granted by the author and the Rowman & Littlefield Publisher publishing house. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. (editor’s note)]
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