Oral history books

In Emigre Voices Lewkowicz and Grenville present twelve oral history interviews with men and women who came to Britain...  Read More >>

Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a unique study of the polity of the colonial-princely...  Read More >>

A full, detailed and global portrait of a life lived in service.  Read More >>

This book delves into the history of the Horn of Africa diaspora in Italy and Europe through the stories of those...  Read More >>

This book of shanties will take you on a journey through time. Nathan Evans presents his favourite songs to sing...  Read More >>

Documents life of a Maine dairy-farming family, in the '30s to '50s. The author is the last member of a family which...  Read More >>

Anti-Semitism's recent rise in Europe and Germany has manifested in verbal hostility and attacks. Through fifteen...  Read More >>

Documents life of a Maine dairy-farming family, in the '30s to '50s. The author is the last member of a family which...  Read More >>

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Shirley Caldwell-Patterson led an extraordinary life. This is her memoir.  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories...  Read More >>

This book looks beyond the Aylesbury’s public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those...  Read More >>

Award-winning historian Catrine Clay tells the gripping stories of six ordinary Germans who witnessed the rise of...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging analysis of the internal dynamics of Irish republicanism between the outbreak of ‘the Troubles’...  Read More >>

This is the first book detailing the history of the golden age of the British sitcom, the 1970s, through the voices...  Read More >>

20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition of one of the bestselling and most critically acclaimed books on 9/11 ever...  Read More >>

Previously undocumented testimonies telling stories of love, laughter, adventure and activism from the Greenham...  Read More >>

Valerie Storie, the survivor of the infamous A6 Murder, was victim shamed for over 50 years. This is her story,...  Read More >>

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Journey back to 1920 with the memories of a 105-year-old woman recounting the haunting incident of the 'Scariff...  Read More >>

During the 872-day siege of Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1944, civilians endured air raids, bread rations...  Read More >>

The author discusses how the first young women to enroll at Yale fought against the backward-leaning traditions...  Read More >>

About the Book: Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont features the...  Read More >>