Oral History

In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writ...

Tove was 12 and Liva 9, when the Germans occupied Norway. They remember everything as if it happened yesterday. A middle grade story of bravery, r...

This book sheds light on the untold stories of individual student activists at Queens College, New York City, during the 1960s. Against the backdro...

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true s...

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark explores Newarks Krueger-Scott African-American Cultural Center collection of over 100 oral hi...

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark explores Newarks Krueger-Scott African-American Cultural Center collection of over 100 oral hi...

Napoli introduces a remarkable group of young New Yorkers who went abroad with high hopes only to find a bewildering conflict. We meet, for instanc...

'Diverting, delightful and deliciously weird enough to satisfy the most demanding appetite' Christopher Hadley, author of The RoadFolklorist Ben Ga...

After first emerging in the 1920s, ladies Gaelic football was soon sidelined; breathless women chasing after a football was just too unladylike for...

Decidedly absurd, and always entertaining, revel in the very best letters to The Times. From tinned prime ministers to hiccup remedies, t...

Outside the imagination, witches don't exist. But in Poland and in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, people imagined their neighb...

Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through inter...

In June 2022, former miners secured through the Scottish Parliament a collective pardon for convictions acquired during the 1984-85 miners' strike....

In June 2022, former miners secured through the Scottish Parliament a collective pardon for convictions acquired during the 1984-85 miners' strike....

Whithorn: An Economy of People is an exploration of a unique face-to-face society in Galloway in the south west of Scotland. It paints a picture of...

In Ancient Greeks in their own Words, historian Matthew Dillon reveals the nature of everyday life in the classical world. Using a series of tellin...

This is a wide-ranging analysis of the internal dynamics of Irish republicanism between the outbreak of the Troubles in 1969 and the Good Friday Ag...

An innovative and accessible overview of how ancient Scandinavians understood and made use of their mythological stories. Old Norse Mythology pro...

Year after year,  so-called Tinkers visited Arran to work for farmers in a range of labouring jobs. Their tents and strange talk could cause fear ...

Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Cl...

Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Cl...

What is the nature of Muslim-Jewish relations in Europe today? Based on qualitative interview data, this book explores narratives about Jews among ...

This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cogni...

This is a work of 11 self-contained chapters, one for each day of September before the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, each containin...

This carefully researched history draws on archival sources as well as a wealth of new interviews with on-the-ground activists, political actors, i...

In the time of the Troubles, when bombs blew through the night and soldiers prowled down the roads, Henry Glassie came to the Irish borderland to l...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED S...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED S...

In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strict enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They never left the convent except ...

Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to re...

Inspired by the question of whats next? in the field of Canadian womens and gender history, this broadly historiographical volume represents a conv...

In this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and m...

The first twenty-five years of life in post-socialist Europe have seen vast political, economic, and cultural changes, as societies that lived unde...

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this ch...

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this ch...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING***'Read this book. Don't put it off until you'll supposedly be strong enough and re...

In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows ...

This oral history reader, designed to supplement texts on the second half of the U.S. history survey, features the words of ordinary people who des...

This book collects original research essays to explore the diverse uses of photographs and photography in oral history, from the use of photos as m...

Based on archival sources and oral history, this book  reconstructs a border-building process in Namibia that spanned more than sixty years. The pr...

Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public a...

This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, S...