Oral history

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day.

Explores how to use different types of sources to write the history of slavery and the slave trade in Africa.

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India.

In this book, seven distinguished scholars and writers discuss seven leading figures in the history of Canadian letters and public affairs.

In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and understood through the lens of the Western Front.

The Sound of Memories: Recordings from the Oral History Centre, Singapore features the happy, funny, poignant and bittersweet - but always heartwarming and unforgettable - stories, memories and anecdotes of Singaporeans from all walks of life.

Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence.

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike.

Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public.

What is re-enactment and how does it relate to heritage?

Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "e;how-to"e; guide for engaging with primary source documents.

This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those who knew him.

Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca.

Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels.

This collection of interviews explores how the Chinese Dream is fueling the aspirations of individuals in China today and presents 40 representative cases that showcase the journeys that ordinary people undertake in pursuit of their dreams as well as their extraordinary achievements.

This book explores a central methodological issue at the heart of studies of the histories of children and childhood.

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses.

It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity.

Bringing together research from a team of global scholars, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Indo-European language family.

Im »Kirchenkampf« ab 1933 zeigten sich die Unterschiede im Denken und Glauben von sächsischen Pfarrern und ihren Gemeindegliedern.

Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community.

Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin's purges, and the Second World War.

Women were at the forefront of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, with the Arab Spring protests providing an unprecedented opportunity to make their voices heard.

Tirol durch die Augen von sechs seiner bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten: Alpinlegende und Extrembergsteiger Reinhold Messner erzählt von abenteuerlichen Erfahrungen in den Bergen, in der Wüste und im ewigen Eis, über Grenzgänge - und vom Heimkehren nach Südtirol.