In 2022 Gunnersbury Park Museum (a recently renovated museum in a Grade II* listed heritage park) won an Everyday Heritage grant from Historic England. The project aimed to explore the impact of heavy industry on life in West London through the
Reflections on some of the colourful memories revealed in oral history interviews from the beginning of the radical, new, post-Robbins Scottish university Almost 20 years ago a group of newly retired staff, many of whom had been
by David Cowan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 300pp, £85.00, hardback In his deeply researched and richly analytical book, David Cowan explores the ways in which memories of the 1930s have been variably composed, narrated and received
by Alessandro Portelli New York City: Columbia University Press, 2022, 192 pages, £22 (paperback) To research and write about Bob Dylan is to enter a labyrinth. There are many paths that one can take, many
This blog post considers how using oral history clips in creative and thoughtful ways can be a powerful learning tool for students of all ages.
In this piece, Joanna Gilmore shares insights from her research into the lawyers who supported striking miners in the 1984-5 miners’ strike. You can read more about this in her article, ”They really did us
Embarrassing mistakes We all make mistakes, some worse than others. I’ve always thought it important to admit to trainees that things do go wrong and that they are not alone. It happens to the best
by David F Elmer and Peter McMurray (eds) Harvard University Press, 2024, 524pp, £33.95, paperback The essays collected in Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century originated in a 2010 conference markingthe fiftieth anniversary of Albert Lord’s hugely influential The Singer of Tales, and
“One of St Helens’ most iconic bakeries is to close after its doors for the final time to bring to an end an era lasting nearly seven decades.” St Helens Star, 10th September, 2022. When I
By Carla Pascoe Leahy Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023, 296pp, £85, hardback ‘Once a mother always a mother’ is a well-worn phrase but, like so much about mothering, not well examined. At what point does
