Oral Histories, Public Engagement and the Making of Positive in Prison

Bibliographic Data

ID4494754
AuthorsJanet Weston (0000-0002-5154-5049, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume87
Pages211-223
Publication date2019-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Workshop Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/hwj/dbz009
PMID30983874
OpenAlexW2915273103
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited8

How might creative practices surrounding oral history contribute to public engagement and to historical research itself? These questions are considered here through a reflective account of the making of the audio drama Positive in Prison: HIV Stories from a Dublin Jail. Positive in Prison is based on oral histories of HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Ireland, gathered in 2016-17 as part of the Wellcome Trust-funded project 'Prisons, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000'. This piece reviews the processes and practical considerations behind the making of the audio drama and its associated launch events, alongside a summary of the history of HIV/AIDS and of prisons that was being produced and shared. It also offers reflections on the advantages and disadvantages of this particular project in relation to public engagement, the uses of oral histories, and creative history-telling

Art · Creativity · Criminology · Drama · Drama therapy · Entitlement (fair division) · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Oral history · Political science · Prison · Public engagement · Public health · Public relations · Relation (database) · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Medicine · Nursing · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology

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