Oral History

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...

1971 was a great year for cinema. Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Dario Argento, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sam Pecki...

The 1950s saw a major shift in the lifestyles of many in Britain. Employment levels rose to new heights, white consumer goods appeared in shop wind...

In war, there is no easy victory.When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Husseins regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, ...

Oral history is a particularly useful way to capture ordinary people's lived experiences. This innovative book introduces the full array of oral hi...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Incredibly evocative and compelling. The Washington PostA hugely powerful new book. Dan SnowThe most moving and chill...

Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get...

What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyri...

For Kennedy devotees, as well as readers unfamiliar with the lion of the Senate, this book presents the compelling story of Edward Kennedy's unexpe...

Built in 1969, Metsamor, Armenia (then the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic), was intended as a settlement for employees of a nearby nuclear powe...

Smuggling has been a way of life in Galicia for millennia. The Romans considered its windswept coast the edge of the world. To the Greeks it was fr...

Colchester Memories is an evocative collection of reminiscences recording life in Colchester during the early to mid-twentieth century. The memorie...