Oral history books

Oral History and Qualitative Methodologies: Educational Research for Social Justice examines oral history methodological...  Read More >>

Parliament is Britain's most important political institution, yet its workings remain obscure to academics and the...  Read More >>

The first book to tell the scandal-filled story of Dolphin Square, the UK's most notorious address  Read More >>

Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.  Read More >>

Discover the stories passed down over time from the distinctive people of the Ozark region. Oral history is shared...  Read More >>

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in...  Read More >>

The stories of the innocent; the survivors and those left behind, who paid the price of terrorism in Northern Ireland...  Read More >>

This book offers a new approach to the historical study of The Welfare State, with a close focuse on class and gender....  Read More >>

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In Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents...  Read More >>

In Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents...  Read More >>

Short and succinct, Reading History introduces students to different kinds of historical writing, acting as a guide...  Read More >>

Offers a window into the life of Elizabeth 'Bess' Clements Abell, former social secretary to President Johnson....  Read More >>

Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular...  Read More >>

A vivid depiction of the extraordinary circumstances of the Third Reich's final days  Read More >>

This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once...  Read More >>

Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement shows why and how feminism's 'second wave' mobilized...  Read More >>

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In this final part to his bestselling A Force Like No Other series, Colin Breen brings together more compelling...  Read More >>

Classic Aboriginal Myths illustrated by Ainslie Roberts, in full colour, and back in print after 30 years.  Read More >>

The essays in this collection explore a wide variety of topics broadly related to cultural renewal and representation,...  Read More >>

In Emigre Voices Lewkowicz and Grenville present twelve oral history interviews with men and women who came to Britain...  Read More >>

Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a unique study of the polity of the colonial-princely...  Read More >>

A full, detailed and global portrait of a life lived in service.  Read More >>