The use of oral history as a method to rewrite histories of modern architecture has intensified lately with events, publications, and specific sessions at the annual events of scholarly societies. Characterised by a sense of urgency and transience, oral history has the potential to also expand the field of architectural historiography. This talk presents findings of a research project on oral histories of architectural history, not architecture; through interviews with architectural historians, not architects, initially conducted in Australia and New Zealand but to be replicated in and expanded to other contexts. While others focus on acknowledging the contribution of users, clients, and laborers in constructing alternative narratives of the built environment, I argue that there is also value in recording the stories told by architectural historians. Building on the investigation of the entangled subjectivities of the narrators who talk, the researcher who listens, and the audience and institutions who care about them, this presentation focusses precisely on the latter, on those who (will) write the histories of architecture in the future and their reception of these stories. Can the resulting intergenerational dialogue help overcome the institutional uncertainty of emerging scholars? Can it increase their sense of belonging to the discipline? By presenting fragments of the interviews to audiences beyond Australia and New Zealand, the aim is to reflect on whether the multiple meaningful interpretations of their stories can help navigate the current generational shift characterized by the urgency of social and climate crises. In the stories of established historians, emerging scholars may find hope.