Oral History

The oral history of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants In 1948 the former troop ship Wi...

This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Crowley interviews long-time residents of the Central Area, a historically redlined neighborhood that was one of the few places nonwhites could buy...