Oral History

They Taught Us Skills for Life: We are the Engineers! Scotland's labour history has been the subject of many important studies, surveys, articles a...

An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE...

Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.'Richly humane, viscerally political, ge...

The visual legacy of Florestine Perrault Collins, who documented African American life in New Orleans Florestine Perrault Collins (1895-1988) lived...

The country is bankrupt, the gap between rich and poor is widening, the church has retreated from the inner cities, and even in the more affluent s...

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice- or performance-aware sil...

Short-listed for the 2013 New Angle Prize for Literature.BOOK OF THE YEAR - overall winner of the East Anglian Book Awards 2012A major piece of wor...

Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century.What makes this book unique from any other s...

In this peoples history of Ireland, John Creedon introduces a fascinating collection of stories from the Schools Collection. This treasure trove of...

The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has be...