Books
Baum, Willa K. Transcribing and Editing Oral History, American Association for State and Local History, 1977
Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Like it Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, New York, 1998
Davis, C., Back., K., MacLean, K. Oral History: From Tape to Type, American Library Association, Chicago, 1977
Frederikse, Julie. The Unbreakable Thread: Non-racialism in South Africa, Zed Books, London, 1990
Grele, Ronald, J. Envelopes of Sound: the Art of Oral History, Precedent Publications, Chicago, 1985
Hofmeyr, Isabel. We Spend our Years as a Tale that is Told: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom, Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1993
Humphries, Stephen. The Handbook of Oral History: Recording Life Stories, Inter-action Inprint, 1984
Mitchell, Joseph. Joe Gould's Secret, Vintage Press, 1965
Passerini, Luisa. (ed) International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, Volume 1: Memory and Totalitarianism, Oxford University Press, 1992
Perks, Robert. & Wendling Laura M. Oral history: Talking About the Past, Historical Association in association with the Oral History Society, London, 1995
Redfern, Alan. Talking in Class: Oral History and the National Curriculum, Colchester, Oral History Society, 1996
Ritchie, Donald A. Doing Oral History: a Practical Guide, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003
Samuel, R. & Thompson, Paul R. The Myths We Live By, Routledge, London, 1990
Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class, Vintage Books, United Kingdom, 1963
Thompson, Paul R. The Voice of the Past: Oral History, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988
Tonkin, Elizabeth. Narrating our Past: the Social Construction of Oral History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992
Van Onselen, The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper: 1894-1985, James Currey, Oxford, 1996
Vansina, Jan. Oral Tradition as History, James Currey, London, 1985
Watson, Patricia and Favis, Diane. Speaking our History Together: An Oral History Guide, Great People, Great Places Series, Jacana Media, 2009
Watson, Patricia and Favis, Diane. 'Meeting history face-to-face: a guide to doing oral history', South African History Archive, Johannesburg, 2007
Yow, Valerie Raleigh. Recording Oral History: a Practical Guide for Social Scientists, Sage, Thousand Oaks, California, 1994
Journal Articles
la Hausse, P. 'Oral History and South African Historians', Radical History Review, 46, 7, 1990
Morrissey, Charles T. 'Why call it 'oral history'? Searching for Early Usage of a Generic Term', Oral History Review, v. 8, 1980
