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Oral histories. Document genres.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Works that record interviews conducted to preserve the recollections of persons whose experience or memories are representative or are of special historical or social significance.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Scottish Life Archive Oral History Collection, National Museums Scotland (NMS).

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS007
Scope and Contents A collection of oral history interviews that were mainly conducted by National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland/National Museums Scotland social history curators between 1968 and 2009, covering subjects relating to their collecting, research and exhibition priorities. Interviewees were either donors of artefacts to the collections or employees of a particular occupational group which curators were researching in order to enhance the information available about related artefacts in the...
Dates: 1968-2002.