Alun Howkins on George Ewart Evans
Alun Howkins describes George Ewart Evans, his relationship with Paul Thompson and connections to Welsh poets Iorwerth Peate and Keidrych Rhys.
Tag: oral history
My Life as an Oral Historian and Regional Adviser for the OHS
A few months ago I was invited by fellow freelancers to join a panel at the Oral History Society Conference entitled ‘My Life as an Oral Historian’. I was looking forward to talking about the
Introducing Oral History in a developing museum
Sheffield’s National Emergency Services Museum has been evolving into a centre for research. And oral history is on the agenda.
Hub Sud-Ouest France en Transition (SOFT)
Image: The Toulouse en transition movement participates in the Climate March in 2021 The South-West France in Transition network held its first meeting in 2018 at the initiative of the Haute-Garonne and Gironde transition groups,
Transition in the Appalachians
Featured image: The Appalachians, courtesy of vt.edu Jessica Taylor has been conducting interviews in the Appalachian mountains of the Eastern United States. A region that has fueled the United States’s twentieth-century industrialization and militarization through its
The Transition Movement – Our Future
In Bergen the pilot project is a Nordic collaboration. We plan to investigate people’s thoughts of the future using life stories from Bergen and Gothenburg. Internationally, the total collection forms part of the Oral History
Climate Stories Project and Transition organizations
My name is Kelly Hydrick. I am Program Manager at Climate Stories Project, where I’m the lead instructor for the online Climate Stories Ambassador program. The Ambassador program provides education and support to diverse participants as
Transition Town Wellington
Transition Town Wellington has gone from strength to strength over its 16 year history. This small town on the border of Somerset and Devon has seen its green spaces turn into herb beds, forest gardens,
Fabricating Lureland. A History of the Imagination and Memory of Peacehaven, a Speculative Interwar Garden City Development by the Sea
by Julia Winckler Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, 407pp, £93 (hardcover) The town of Peacehaven in East Sussex is an unusual place. Not that you might notice at first sight. A small town just six miles
Learning behind bars: how IRA prisoners shaped the peace process in Ireland
by Dieter Reinisch Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022, 240pp, $70.00 (£56), hardback According to an authoritative estimate, some 15,000 Irish republicans were imprisoned during the Northern Ireland conflict from 1969. Engaging a wide range
