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...

Han Meilin is a titan of contemporary Chinese art, from Olympic mascots to the tails of planes, his works have drawn worldwide recognition. But beh...

Topics discussed in these recorded oral interviews with residents of Stranraer and district, in south-west Scotland, include tattie howking, war, t...

In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublins tenements. If it werent for hi...

For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the center of one of the world's most widely reported yet least understood human rights c...

The coastline of Ireland, from the rugged fjords of the west to the steely waters of the north, is infused with memories of loss, sadness and beaut...

'Indispensable . . . Speaks of hope and courage' Observer'An ode to openness, offering a refreshing alternative to those accounts that treat migran...

This inspiring book draws from first-hand interviews, diaries and memoirs of those involved in the VE Day celebrations in 1945. It paints an enthra...

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day. Student...

Notoriously Militant is a primer on worker militancy. 'Ordinary' workers made history every day, through direct democracy and members' activity in...

Rarely has the Second World War entered the public imagination or been depicted as it is here-through the eyes of the children living in areas targ...

The book describes a golden time in Scotland before many of the twentieth-century changes had taken full effect. It is based on the recollections o...

Where exactly is queer England? There has been much discussion of London as a queer city, but what about the many thousands of queer lives lived el...

For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the citys vanishin...

Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dict...

The renowned Gallic poet Pacatus Drepanius journeyed to Rome in the summer of AD 389 to deliver a speech to the Emperor Theodosius; both men stood ...

THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT CAME TO ME. NO MATTER HOW THEY GOT HERE, THEY DID THE F***ING JOB.Iggy Pop hasn't left a mark on music; he's left it batte...

A powerful account of the decline of the Cuban Revolution, told through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. 'Masterful... Dore uses oral h...

You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later Nick Cave Later is a voyage of discovery for us as well a...