Oral history books

A delightful meander down memory lane recalling the boundless possibilities of the 1950s  Read More >>

Using examples from Indigenous community oral history projects throughout Canada and the United States, this new...  Read More >>

History of British dentistry from the end of the 1940s to present as told by dental care professionals.  Read More >>

History of British dentistry from the end of the 1940s to present as told by dental care professionals.  Read More >>

This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some...  Read More >>

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5 Caledonian Road opened in 1959 as a centre for the peace movement and home for radical bookshop Housmans and pacifist...  Read More >>

First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology...  Read More >>

North to Boston tells the life histories of ten Black individuals who moved from the southern United States to Boston,...  Read More >>

The main sources on which this book is based are video testimonies of the surviving members of this group, personal...  Read More >>

This ethnography of the Yalaku offers by far the most complete account of traditional warfare in the Sepik to be...  Read More >>

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The story of the decline of the Cuban Revolution over the last four decades, told through the lives of five ordinary...  Read More >>

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This book offers a new approach to the historical study of The Welfare State, with a close focuse on class and gender....  Read More >>

During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed Pinochet’s coup, people began fleeing Chile....  Read More >>

An eclectic and surprising portrait of a forgotten period of Irish history.  Read More >>

The banjo has been emblematic of the southern Appalachian Mountains since the late twentieth century. Making Music...  Read More >>

The first book to tell the scandal-filled story of Dolphin Square, the UK's most notorious address  Read More >>

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The banjo has been emblematic of the southern Appalachian Mountains since the late twentieth century. Making Music...  Read More >>

This book looks at the memory of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Bulgaria:...  Read More >>

Afterlives of war documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations in Australia, Britain and Germany...  Read More >>

Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic is a unique firsthand account of the AIDS pandemic from three public health authorities...  Read More >>

The oral history of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants  Read More >>