Abstract:
This paper will report on the progress achieved in a project funded by a small ARC grant on the topic of the transition of youths through primary and secondary school and into work during the period 1930-1950. The study endeavours to determine the factors involved in and influencing the process of transition during this earlier period. Some seventy interviews have been conducted with people who completed their schooling in the Hunter region. The paper will focus on the methodology of the project, in particular the dynamics of the oral history/life history interview and the nature of the evidence gleaned from such interviews.