Oral history books

Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people ofWales during a period of great national change.  Read More >>

Explores the emergence of knowledge as a measure of human in the colonial and casteist contexts in twentieth century...  Read More >>

Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear...  Read More >>

Renowned artist Han Meilin gives an oral history of the harrowing events that turn his life and fledgling artistic...  Read More >>

Lochmaben, in, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland, has historic connections to the family of Robert the...  Read More >>

As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deeply ingrained human connections with the earth...  Read More >>

Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making...  Read More >>

This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising...  Read More >>

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Dare we forget the Covid-19 pandemic ever happened? 33 people tell their stories of how the pandemic changed...  Read More >>

Addressing questions about what it means to be ‘British’ or ‘Irish’ in the twenty-first century, this book focuses...  Read More >>

Tracing the evolution of Chinese Sociology from the late 1970s to the present day, the book aims to record the path...  Read More >>

Offers an unrivalled account of how a rural Black community drew together to combat the immense forces aligned against...  Read More >>

This book focuses predominantly on conducting oral history with people of recent wars and conflicts. It serves as...  Read More >>

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The Ahom dynasty was one of the greatest political entities of medieval Asia, equal to, if not greater than, its...  Read More >>

Includes tales of fairies, changelings, ghosts, witches, saints, the devil, giants, kings, queens, and robbers....  Read More >>

This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once...  Read More >>

Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing...  Read More >>

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The greatest cocktail party ever thrown in Hollywood.  Read More >>

Building on sixty years of fieldwork, archival research and oral accounts, this book presents the history of prophetic...  Read More >>

In this book, Bernard Chiang records the history of his family and their contributions to Singapore's community...  Read More >>