Oral History

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

Challenges, opportunities, and methodological issues in the creation of oral history archives in the Arab worldOral history archives have always be...

Produced between 1850 and 1862, London Labour and the London Poor is one of the most significant examples of nineteenth century oral history. The c...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Steel City Readers makes availabl...

Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food c...

For nearly five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the countrys own...

Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything-including their native languages-to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s a...

Are our values and aspirations the same as before the pandemic, or has a microscopic virus changed us forever? Moving from labour ward to funer...

The Life of Ten Bears is a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph Joe A Attocknie. Although va...

Although historians today turn increasingly to oral tradition as a source of data on the history of non-literate peoples, Paul Irwin cautions them ...

This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in ...

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...

Since 1964, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the countrys own military. Ci...

In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and nati...

This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring wome...

This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring wome...

In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, r...

During the late twentieth century, the number of museums in the UK dramatically increased. Typically small and independent, the new museums concent...

Sissy home boys or domestic outlaws? Through a series of vivid case studies taken from across the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Matt Coo...

The powerful story of an art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion.'AN ENGAGING...