ABSTRACT
New media offer historians both difficult challenges and exciting opportunities. There are many obstacles to historical work in interactive multimedia (IMM) format, which range from the need for extremely diverse skills through to the continual technical frustrations of limited size and bandwidth. Yet the capacity of IMM to link different types of content, known as hypermedia, holds out the enticing possibility of having the immediacy of people’s voices and faces as they retell their memories engaged with historical analyses from many perspectives, and of relating memory and its expression very directly with other types of historical sources such as print, image and archival sound.
