The Oral History Society (OHS) is a UK-based membership organisation that promotes the collection, preservation, and use of recorded memories of the past, and supports people doing Oral History across community, academic, heritage, and creative contexts - ohs.org.uk 
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The Society’s stated aims include furthering oral history practice, encouraging discussion of methods, and raising standards of good practice, which shows up in the way it publishes guidance, convenes events, and invests in training - ohs.org.uk
# What it does
OHS runs an annual conference (with a theme that changes each year) and a wider programme of talks, workshops, and courses that help oral historians compare approaches and learn practical skills - ohs.org.uk - ohs.org.uk
It publishes the journal Oral History, a long-running independent UK journal in the field, and provides ways for members to access back issues and search the archive - ohs.org.uk - ohs.org.uk
# Legal and ethical stance
OHS is notable for insisting that “legal compliance” is not the same as “good practice”, and for treating ethics, consent, and care as central craft issues rather than admin, especially where interviews involve vulnerability, power imbalance, or sensitive memory - ohs.org.uk
In practice this guidance overlaps with modern concerns around Data Protection, Copyright, archiving, and the long-term stewardship of recordings, transcripts, and permissions - ohs.org.uk
# Training and craft
OHS delivers structured training (online and in-person) that covers the end-to-end workflow: project design, interviewing, equipment, documentation, transcription, rights, and archiving - ohs.org.uk - ohs.org.uk
This makes the Society useful not only for “history people”, but also for museums, artists, community groups, activists, and researchers who need a practical standard of care for recording lived experience - ohs.org.uk
# Why it matters Oral history is one of the few methods that keeps the everyday voice in the record, including people and experiences that formal archives often miss, and OHS functions as an infrastructure body that keeps that practice legible, teachable, and ethically grounded.