Most resources and discussions of research ethics are concerned with living subjects, and most historians – apart from oral historians – tend not to give this topic much consideration. The following links are intended to provide food for thought and discussion and are drawn mainly from a) social sciences; b) oral history; c) museums; d) the newer field of internet research.

Codes and Guidelines

• British Society of Criminology Code of Ethics
• Oral History Society (UK): Is Your Oral History Legal and Ethical?
• Museums Association: Code of Ethics for Museums
• UK Data Archive data management guide: Consent and Ethics
• ESRC Framework for research ethics
• The Research Ethics Guidebook
• Association of Internet Researchers Ethics Guide

Presentations and Discussions

• eResearch Ethics
• Ethical issues for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (U. Sheffield workshop, 2009)
• Internet Research Ethics (presentation by Rebecca Ferguson)
• Internet Research Ethics (ed. by Charles Ess)
• Oral History, Human Subjects, and Institutional Review Boards (Linda Shopes)
• Ethical issues in qualitative research on internet communities
• ‘It wasn’t all bad’: representations of working class cultures within social history museums and their impacts on audiences (Elizabeth Carnegie) (PDF)
• Involving the virtual subject (

  Maria Bakardjieva and Andrew Feenberg

  ) (PDF)