Oral history consists of spoken memories, stories, and songs, and the study of these, as a way of communicating and discovering information about the past.
oral history in British English
noun
the memories of living people about events or social conditions which they experienced in their earlier lives taped and preserved as historical evidence
oral history in American English
1.
historical data consisting of personal recollections, usually in the form of a tape-recorded interview
2.
the gathering and preservation of such data
3.
a historical account based on such data
Examples of 'oral history' in a sentence
oral history
He probably relished his role as keeper and dispenser of oral history.
Reeves, Robert DOUBTING THOMAS (1994)
No oral history had been passed down, so they simply created their own myth on the ashes of a forgotten past.