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Volume 37, No 1 & 2 (2009)

"FORTY YEARS 1969-2009"

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ARTICLES:

REVISITING AKENFIELD: FORTY YEARS OF AN ICONIC TEXT
Lynn Abrams (abstract)

THE GROWTH OF THE ORAL HISTORY MOVEMENT IN SCOTLAND: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ERIC CREGEEN
Margaret Bennett (abstract)

"DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES" AND THE DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENT IN POST-WAR BRITAIN: INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVES
Ali Haggett (abstract)

INVESTIGATING SHOPPER NARRATIVES OF THE SUPERMARKET IN EARLY POST-WAR ENGLAND, 1945-75
Dawn Nell, Andrew Alexander, Gareth Shaw and Adrian R Bailey (abstract)

"DON’T MIX RACE WITH THE SPECIALTY": INTERVIEWING SOUTH ASIAN OVERSEAS-TRAINED GERIATRICIANS
Joanna Bornat, Leroi Henry and Parvati Raghuram (abstract)

ORAL HISTORY, "LEARNING DISABILITY" AND PEDAGOGIES OF SELF
Helen Graham (abstract)

PUBLIC HISTORY:

"THEY LISTENED TO MY VOICE": THE REFUGEE COMMUNITIES HISTORY PROJECT AND BELONGING: VOICES OF LONDON’S REFUGEES
Annette Day (abstract)


REVIEWS:

Set Into Song: Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker
Peggy Seeger and the Radio Ballads, Peter Cox
Making Peace With The Past? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles, Graham Dawson
Shaping History: Narratives of Political Change, Molly Andrews
Negotiating Boundaries In The City: Migration, Ethnicity and Gender in Britain, Joanna Herbert
Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain 1918-1960, Kate Fisher
The Women’s Land Army: A Portrait, Gillian Clarke
Land Girls and Their Impact, Ann Kramer
Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today: Reminiscence in Dementia Care, Pam Schweitzer and Errollyn Bruce
Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing in South Africa, Philippe Denis and Radikobo Ntsimane (eds)
Margaret Mellis: A Life in Colour, Sue Giovanni (Director) and Jules Hussey (Producer)


Volume 37, No 2 (2009)

"Community and Creativity"

OHS Journal Volume 37 Issue 2 Cover Image

ARTICLES:

COMMUNITY AND CREATIVITY: A LIFE STORIES PERSPECTIVE
Paul Thompson (abstract)

CREATIVITY – BUT WHERE DO YOU LOOK? A TALE OF MUSICIANS IN MILTON KEYNES
Ruth Finnegan (abstract)

LEARNING FROM WATTS TOWERS: ASSEMBLAGE AND COMMUNITY-BASED ART IN CALIFORNIA
Richard Cándida Smith (abstract)

SMOOTH AND ROUGH: CREATIVE SOCIABILITY IN THE CRAFT WORLD
Tanya Harrod and Hawksmoor Hughes (abstract)

CREATIVITY AT WORK: MINERS AND QUARRYMEN IN TUSCANY
Giovanni Contini (abstract)

ITALIAN STEEL WORKERS IN THE ERA OF SUPER-MECHANISATION AND GLOBALISATION: WHAT KINDS OF CREATIVITY?
Alessandro Portelli (abstract)

SOURCES AND MEANS OF MIXING: THE GROWTH OF MIXED AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN AND WHITE BRITISH FAMILIES IN LONDON
Elaine Bauer (abstract)

MUSLIM FAMILIES IN FRANCE: CREATIVE PARENTING, IDENTITY AND RECOGNITION
Catherine Delcroix (abstract)

FROM DOMESTIC POT TO CERAMIC DOLL: THE STORY OF DONA IZABEL MENDES, DOLL MAKER OF THE JEQUITINHONHA VALLEY IN BRAZIL
Karen Worcman (abstract)


REVIEWS:

Memories of Mass Oppression: Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity, Nanci Adler, Selma Leydesdorff, Mary Chamberlain and Leyla Neyzi (eds)
Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile, Macarena Gómez-Barris
Researching Social Change, Julie McLeod and Rachel Thomson
RecordingCulture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience, Daniel Makagon and Mark Neuman
Paradoxes of Social Capital: A Multi-generational Study of Moroccans in London, Myriam Cherti
For Their Own Good: The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970, Lucinda McCray Beier
A Matter of Life and death: Conversation with Pathologists, Sue Armstrong
People and their Pasts: Public History Today, Paul Ashton and Hilda Kean (eds)
Return to Akenfield, Naomi Jones (director)