From 2011 to 2014 the Australian Generations Oral History Project recorded 300 interviews with Australians born between 1920 and 1989. The contributions to this book, a result of this project, reflect on the practice of oral history and how interviews can illuminate Australian social and cultural history.

Three of the chapters consider oral history innovations, focusing on the potential for oral history in a digital age; the pioneering technologies that underpinned Australian Generations and the ethical issues posed by online digital oral history; and the challenges and...