Oral history books

Elite Oral History provides support for those intending to use oral history as a research tool to understand, analyse...  Read More >>

Retrace Western North Carolina's cultural and natural history with one of its most beloved storytellers and folklorists,...  Read More >>

"""During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal...  Read More >>

"While the Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of...  Read More >>

Lynne Kelly has discovered that a powerful memory technique used by the ancients can unlock the secrets of the Neolithic...  Read More >>

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Alexievich charts the decline of Soviet culture and speculates on what will rise from the ashes of communism. Alexievich...  Read More >>

In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community of Tamina north of Houston, near the rich timber lands of...  Read More >>

This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian...  Read More >>

This book most valuably records oral history of the Yotti Yotta of the Murray River...  Read More >>

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

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Why the majority of Mennonites rejected labour unions in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.  Read More >>

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On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. While officials tried to...  Read More >>

Although historians today turn increasingly to oral tradition as a source of data on the history of non-literate...  Read More >>

This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies and African intellectual writings to discover what...  Read More >>

Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past. This...  Read More >>

Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past. This...  Read More >>

This book narrates the development of education in St. Maarten between 1954 and 2000, by tapping into the experience...  Read More >>

This book has grown out of an oral history project, 'The End of the Shift', which aims to record the working practices...  Read More >>

Experiences of counter-insurgency and conventional warfare in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola as personally...  Read More >>

Provides a historical perspective for understanding the exponential growth of casinos in the United States since...  Read More >>

From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection...  Read More >>