Oral History

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...

In August 1961, 22-year-old Valerie Storie and 36-year-old Michael Gregsten were the victims of James Hanratty in the notorious A6 Murder. After a ...

Before the advent of machines in the late 1950s, hop-picking was undertaken by an army of people, many of whom saw the countryside only during thes...

The 1970s were the era of the three-day week, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the winter of discontent, trade union Bolshevism and wildcat strike...

Between 1969 and 1998, over 4,000 people lost their lives in the small country of Northern Ireland. The vast majority of these deaths were sectaria...

In 1948, shortly after settling with his family in the village of Blaxhall, Suffolk, George Ewart Evans started recording the conversations he had ...

Times New Romanian provides a picture of Romania today through the individual first-person narratives of people who chose to go and make a life in ...

The ground-breaking and bestselling group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself 'Epic' David ...

Discover the stories passed down over time from the people of the Ozark region. Oral history is shared through the years to provide a perspective o...

The story of the last surviving 'Desert Rats' in their own words and their experience of war in North Africa. From 1940-3 Britain was engaged in a ...

Junaluska is one of the oldest African American communities in western North Carolina and one of the few surviving today. After Emancipation, ma...

This contemporary oral history, based on interviews conducted over an 18-year period, is the first of its kind in English. The interviews, some rep...

Britain and the world were shocked in October 1966 by live television pictures coming from a small mining village in Wales. They showed a human tra...

The Battle of Britain was a critical period in the history of WWII when, thanks to the heroics of the RAF and their Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Desperately important and impossible to put down. It is timeless. . . what shines clear from the testimonie...

On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country...

THE BOOK: Recollections of an Argyllshire Drover & Other West Highland Chronicles Eric Cregeen's groundbreaking research into the Argyll Estat...