Oral History

This great Central Asian epic, passed down through generations and now brought to life in a new translation, carries the reader into a world of nom...

Belfast punk and the Troubles is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. The book explores what it was like...

'Us firefighters do more than fight fires. We also assist those who have just gone through what's probably the worst experience of their lives.'The...

Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written li...

Spitfire Voices represents an important oral history of the Spitfire from the fighter pilot's perspective. Drawing upon the personal letters, diari...

In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courage...

The Black and Tans [raises voice] raided my aunts house where my mother was in bed at three oclock in the morning I was due to be born three days ...

In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury to protest the siting of US nuclear missiles on British s...

Black Theater Is Black Life fills a critical gap in the history of African American culture in Chicago. Through interviews with prominent producers...

World War II could not have been won without the U.S. Merchant Marine. Crewed by civilian seamen in peacetime and carrying much of the nation's ...

In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community ofTaminathen called Tammanynorth of Houston, near therich timber lands of Montgomery County. ...

In Walking Along Paul Goble has pulled together six of his best Iktomi stories and compiled them into a compendium of trouble, disaster, fun, and e...

OUR LIVERPOOL is an oral history about the real Liverpool - about the city before its slick transformation to European City of Culture and about th...

This is one of the most remarkable untold stories of the Second World war. At 11.02 am on an August morning in 1945 America dropped the worlds most...

The official account of the Royal Artillerys activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment...

In 2015, Ireland will hold a referendum on the subject of extending marriage rights to same-sex people in the State. This referendum is the culmina...

Hamburg, 1930: The German-Jewish shipbuilders Blohm & Voss build a transatlantic ocean cruiser that they christen the Monte Rosa.Norway, 1940: ...

Based upon interviews with a wide-range of former German Army and SS soldiers, these unique personal episodes vividly depict the extraordinary circ...

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In ad...