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Journal Special Issues
This special issue of Oral History (vol.52 no.3) devoted to the life story in oral history practice is an additional third issue in 2024. It supplements the usual two print issues which are mailed to OHS members in March and September each year. Thanks to the generous support of National Life Stories the editors are able to make this issue open access and accessible to everyone. This online journal is in full colour, has hypertext links to external publications, websites and resources, and clickable links to audio content.
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Remnants & What Remains: Moments from a Life among Holocaust Survivors
By Henry Hank Greenspan. Detroit: Wayne State University, 2025, 128 pp, £18.99, paperback, IBSN-10: 0814352632 Remnants & What Remains: Moments from a Life among Holocaust Survivors is a remarkable memoir that chronicles Henry ‘Hank’ Greenspan’s personal,
Bisexuality and Beyond: A History of Multiple-Gender-Attraction in Modern Britain
By Martha Robinson Rhodes Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026, 208pp, £88.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780198983125 LGBTQ+ oral history is flourishing in Britain. Books, articles and special issues considering the particularities of queer oral history have steadily
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Beyond the Archive: Oral History and Social Change
Featured image: Coronation Party, 2023. Photo: Adam Rowley For a further discussion of the project and the issues raised in this post please see ‘Intersecting Lives: class community and change on the Andover estate’ Oral History
Collaborative Biography: Reflections on Memory, Method, and Positionality
About half a year into my interviews with Aluízio Palmar, a former political prisoner and torture victim, I asked whether he wanted to co-author the book that I was writing about his life. Prior to
Talking with the Hippies
This article highlights Tom Widdicombe’s podcast Talking With The Hippies (TWTH) as an unconventional, but deeply effective, oral history archive.
