Contributions for the peer review and reports sections of the 2026 issue of our journal Studies in Oral History are now being accepted. The deadline for submission of peer review articles is 31 March 2026 and for reports it is 29 May 2026.
This is the first issue to be produced by our new editors Mia Martin Hobbs and Geraldine Fela. It’s theme is ‘Bearing Witness, Making Histories’.
For further information including word limits and how to submit your article, go to the Call for Papers, Issue 48, 2026.
Contributors are advised to review the following before submission:
About the theme
We are living through a time of relentless violence, towards human beings, our social world, and to our environment. What then does it mean, as historians, to bear witness and make history?
As oral historians, we are used to the role of witness. The creation of an oral history archive is a kind of witness bearing. In the interview we watch and listen in real time as life stories unfold, with all their attendant pain, joy, complications and moments of discomposure. To bear witness in this setting often means something profoundly intimate, but bearing witness can also speak to a broader political and responsibility: to bear witness can mean to speak or record a truth, or to gather collectively to remember, commemorate or protest.
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