Ricardo Santhiago and Miriam Hermeto (eds) Palgrave Macmillian, 2023, 274pp, £59.99 Most oral historians will be familiar with the potential difficulties and surprising revelations that can arise from encounters with the unexpected during interviews; as
by Rosa Schling (London: Housmans, 2023), pp190, £10. Rosa Schling’s oral history of 5 Caledonian Road, Peace! Books! Freedom! The Secret History of a Radical London Building, cracks a window in a corner of central London
by Pam Fox Valentine Mitchell, 2022, 400pp, £19.95, softback Pam Fox’s informative, well-researched and entertaining book provides a detailed picture of Jewish holidaymaking at Bournemouth, and the guesthouses and hotels that have hosted varying numbers of
by Fearghus Roulston Manchester University Press, 2022, 208pp, £85, hardback Belfast punk is arguably the most written about of all the punk scenes within Northern Ireland, and most commonly from within the context of ‘The
The Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP), initially established to preserve 1947 Partition stories, is now dedicated to the cultural and historic preservation of diverse South Asian narratives.
A PhD in Creative Writing involved oral history techniques alongside poetry, re-imagined scenes, personal essay and quotation collage to curate and create voices of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation.
by Lindsey Dodd Columbia University Press, 2023, 375pp, £30, paperback In the introduction to Feeling Memory, Lindsey Dodd emphasises that this book is not a conventional overview of childhood in France during World War II. Rather, she
by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson Faber & Faber, 2022, 739pp, £21, hardback A fascinating and relaxed read for those curious about the American film industry, from the early, ad-hoc roots of silent cinema to
Imperial War Museum, London 26 May 2023 to 7 January 2024, Free Exhibition. Against the backdrop of ‘The Windsor Framework’ and – at the time of writing – the ongoing suspension of the Northern Irish
by Jolene Mairs Dyer, Conor McCafferty, Cahal McLaughlin (eds) Vernon Press, 2022, 276pp, £38, paperback Over almost two decades, the Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) filmed 160 video interviews, produced films, hosted screenings, public events, and
