[Australia's Oral History Collections: A National Directory]

Standard subjects used

This list is a guide only and these are not the only terms used by collecting institutions to describe their oral history collections.

Subjects used within the Directory are based on this list which was prepared for the original print directory. Generally, proper names (including the names of interviewees) have been excluded from the subject field. Some proper names appear in the fields for collection strengths and/or notable holdings and comments.

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Aboriginal People and their Communities
Agriculture
Air Services
Alternative Lifestyles

Ambulance Services - use Health and Medical Services
Anthropology
Archaeology
Architecture
Armed Forces

Army - use Armed Forces
Art (including Exhibitions, Galleries, and Collections)
Arts (including Community Arts)
Associations - use Community Organisations and Services
Australian Government
Authors

Aviation - use Air Services

Ballet and Dance
Bands
Banks - use Commerce
Beef Industry

Bicycles as Transport - use Transport
Blacksmiths

Boarding Houses - use Residentials
Boats and Boating
Botany
Bowls
Boxing

Boy Scouts - use Community Organisations and Services
Brass Bands - use Bands
Broadcasting - use Radio Broadcasting
Building
Buildings - use Historical Buildings and Sites
Bus Services - use Transport
Bushfire Brigades - use Fire Services
Bushfires - use Disasters
Businesses

Cattle - use Beef Industry
Celebrations - use Festivals and Celebrations
Centenary Celebrations - use Festivals and Celebrations
Chambers of Commerce - use Community Organisations and Services
Citrus Industry - use Orchards
City Planning - use Planning
Civil Defence
Clothing and Dress
Clubs, Associations and Societies - use Community Organisations and Services
Colleges of Advanced Education
Commerce
Commonwealth Government - use Australian Government
Community Organisations and Services
Community Radio - use Radio and Broadcasting
Companies - use Businesses
Composers - use Music and Musicians
Conferences
Conservation - use Environment and Conservation
Costume - use Clothing and Dress
Crafts
Creative Writing - use Literature
Crime
Cycling (as a Sport)
Cyclones - use Disasters

Daily Life
Dairying
Dance - use Ballet and Dance
Depression, The
Disabled People and Services
Disasters
(including Accidents, Bushfires, Cyclones, Droughts, Fires, Explosions, Floods, Storms)
Doctors, Medical - use Health and Medical Services
Dogging
Drama
Droughts - use Disasters
Droving

Economics
Education
Emergency Services - use Civil Defence
Environment and Conservation
Ethnic Groups
Exhibitions - use Shows and Exhibitions

Family History
Farming - use Agriculture
Fashion - use Clothing and Dress
Fauna
Festivals and Celebrations
(including Centenary Celebrations)
Films and Film Industry
Fire Services
Firms -use Businesses
Fishing and Fisheries

Floods - use Disasters
Flora
FM Radio - use Radio Broadcasting
Folklore
Food
Football
(including Australian Rules Football, Soccer, Rugby League, Rugby Union)
Forest and Forestry
Fruit Growing - use Orchards

Games and Pastimes
Gaols - use Prisons and Prison Services
Gasworks - use Public Utilities
Geology

Girl Guides - use Community Organisations and Services
Goats - use Livestock
Goldmines - use Mines and Mineral Resources
Government - use Australian Government, State Government, Local Government
Guest Houses - use Residentials

Health and Medical Services
High Schools - use Schools, Secondary
Historic Buildings and Sites
Historic Celebrations - use Festivals and Celebrations
Horse Breaking
Horse Racing
Horses - use Livestock
Horses as Transport - use Transport
Horticulture
Hospitals - use Health and Medical Services
Hotels and Motels
House Construction - use Building
Houses - use Historical Buildings and Sites
Housing - use Residential Development
Hydro-Electric Schemes - use Water Supply and Treatment

Industrial Development - use Industries
Industrial Relations
Industries
Institutes of Technology

Jails - use Prisons and Prison Services
Journalism
Justices of the Peace - use Law

Land Settlement
Land Surveys and Mapping
Landscape Planning - use Planning
Law
Legends and Tales
Leisure - use Recreation and Leisure
Libraries and Library Services
Literature
Livestock
Local Government
(including Municipalities, Planning, Politics, Services, Shires)
Local Stories (Country and Urban)
Lodges

Magazines - use Newspapers and Periodicals
Magistrates - use Law
Mail Services - use Postal Services
Market Gardens
Markets
(including Fetes and Bazaars, Street Trading)
Medical Centres - use Health and Medical Services
Medical Practitioners - use Health and Medical Services
Medical Services - use Health and Medical Services
Members of Parliament - use Parliamentary Representatives
Mental Health - use Health and Medical Services
Migrants - use Ethnic Groups
Migration
Mines and Mineral Resources
Motels - use Hotels and Motels
Municipalities - use Local Government
Museums
Music and Musicians

National Parks
Newspapers and Periodicals
Nurses and Nursing - use Health and Medical Services
Nursing Homes - use Health and Medical Services

Orchards
Organisations - use Community Organisations and Services
Orphanages

Parents Associations - use Community Organisations and Services
Parliamentary Representatives
Pastimes - use Games and Pastimes
Pastoral Industry
Pensioner Clubs - use Community Organisations and Services
Performing Arts - use Arts
Photography
Picture Theatres - use Films and Film Industry
Pigs - use Livestock
Pioneer Houses - use Historic Buildings and Sites
Pioneers
Planning
(including City, Rural and Urban Planning, Land Resumption, Land Use and Landscape Planning)
Plays - use Drama
Police Stations and Services
Politicians - use Parliamentary Representation
Politics
Pollution
(including Air, Noise, Water)
Postal Services
Poultry - use Livestock
Power Resources - use Public Utilities
Preschools
Primary Industries - use Agriculture, Mines and Mineral Resources
Primary Schools - use Schools, Primary
Prisons and Prison Services
Private Hospitals - use Health and Medical Services
Private Schools - use Schools
Prostitution
Public Health - use Health and Medical Services
Public Hospitals - use Health and Medical Services
Public Meetings and Marches
Public Schools - use Schools
Public Service
Public Transport - use Transport
Public Utilities
(including Electricity, Gas, Power)

Radio Broadcasting
Railways
(including Services and Stations)
Real Estate
Recreation and Leisure
Recycling
Red Cross - use Community Organisations and Services
Refugees
Religion
Repertory Companies - use Drama
Residential Development
Residentials
Retail Trade
Retirement Homes and Villages
River Transport
Rotary Clubs - use Community Organisations and Services
Royal Australian Air Force - use Armed Forces
Royal Australian Navy - use Armed Forces
Royal Visits - use Visits of State
Rubbish - use Waste Disposal and Treatment
Rural Industries - use Agriculture
Rural Planning - use Planning

Schools, Primary
Schools, Secondary
Senior Citizens Clubs - use Community Organisations and Services
Sheep and Wool
Sheep Farming -use Sheep and Wool
Ships and Shipping
Shires - use Local Government
Shops and Shopping Centres - use Retail Trade
Shows and Exhibitions
Social Action and Reform
Social Clubs - use Community Organisations and Services
State Government
Strikes - use Industrial Relations
Surf Life Saving - use Community Organisations and Services
Surveying - use Land Surveys and Mapping
Swimming and Swimming Clubs

Technical and Further Education
Television Broadcasting
Theatre Companies - use Drama
Theatres and Cinema - use Films and Film Industry
Tourism
(including Scenic Drives, Lookouts, Museums, Historical Interpretation Centres)
Town Planning - use Planning
Trade Unions - use Industrial Relations
Transport

Unemployment
Universities
Urban Planning - use Planning

Visits of State

War (including Korean, Vietnam, WWI, WWII)
Waste Disposal and Treatment
Water Pollution - use Pollution
Water Supply and Treatment
Welfare Services
Whaling
Wineries
Wool Trade - use Sheep and Wool
Writers - use Authors
Writing, Creative - use Literature

Youth and Youth Services

Zoological Gardens

 
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