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Listening to History
How can oral evidence be generated, selected and analyzed so that oral history becomes a reliable historical tool? The author shows how, with the help of social science methodology, the unique insights gained from talking to individuals about the past can be a valuable addition to historical sources. The book provides the reader with detailed guidelines on the interviewing process, who to interview, how to interview, and how to analyze the information, whether from a single interview or a large archive. Also examined are the problems of memoryóhow researchers can check reliability and accuracy.
Pacific Paradises
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Occupation and Society
A social history of the East Anglian fishing industry, based on oral testimony.
Living the Fishing
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Pitcairn Island
Pitcairn Island was a tiny uninhabited Eden when, in January 1790, Fletcher Christian and eight sailors, together with six Polynesian men, twelve Tahitian women and one baby, landed from HMS Bounty. There they burned their boat, thus eliminating any chance of a voluntary return to the known world. Their disappearance was to remain a mystery for twenty years. This book discusses the purposes of the Bounty’s voyage, the mutiny and its consequences, but goes further than any previous publications, to relate the gripping drama of subsequent events on Pitcairn - of the fifteen men who landed on the island, only one was alive when they were discovered, twelve had been brutally murdered by their ...
The Labour Aristocracy, 1851-1914
Over the last twenty years the concept of a labour aristocracy has heen the most influential framework used to explain industrial and social history. This text argues that the concept has inherent failings and must now be abandoned. The book tackles two fundamental issues: the effect of occupation on social and political values and actions; and the question of whether a male-centred perspective is adequate to explain the course of working-class history. Chapters one to four critically review acknowledged authorities to expose the weakness of the classic theory and establish the alternative perspective. Chapters five to eight analyse the work experience of a variety of secure and insecure workers to demonstrate the validity of the new argument. Chapter nine and the conclusion demonstrate the importance of women's paid and domestic labour, their establishment of community values and their control of consumption.
Life and Death in Eden
This is the dramatic story of the mutiny on the Bounty, and the subsequent events on Pitcairn Island - the tiny speck of land in the Pacific where the mutineers settled.
The Oral History Reader
Arranged in five thematic parts, "The Oral History Reader" covers key debates in the post-war development of oral history.
The Woman's Domain
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Voice of the Past
Presents an introduction to the use of oral sources by the historian.
