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Volume 39, No 1 (2011)

Issue 1: "DISCRIMINATION"

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ARTICLES:

DESPAIR? OLDER HOMELESS MEN'S ACCOUNTS OF THEIR EMOTIONAL TRAJECTORIES
Graham Smith and Paula Nicolson (abstract)

RECALLING THE EARLY YEARS OF PSYCHOSEXUAL NURSING
Rob Irwin (abstract)

SOUTHERN PROTESTANTS AND 'IRISHNESS'
Heather Crawford (abstract)

STIGMA AND SILENCE: ORAL HISTORIES OF TUBERCULOSIS
Susan Kelly (abstract)

CULINARY VOICES: PERSPECTIVES FROM DUBLIN RESTAURANTS
Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire (abstract)

PUBLIC HISTORY:

WHAT ARE SEX WORKER STORIES GOOD FOR? USER ENGAGEMENT WITH ARCHIVED DATA
Wendy Rickard, Nikita, Sarah Evans, Saskia Reeves & Gail Cameron (abstract)

LEARNING:

ORAL HISTORY AND SCHOOLS: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR GETTING STARTED IN THE CLASSROOM
Julia Letts

REVIEWS:

Oral History Theory, Lynn Abrams

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates, Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwartz (eds)

Gender And Political Identities In Scotland, 1919–1939, Annmarie Hughes

How Modernity Forgets, Paul Connerton

Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, And Oral Testimonials Of Women In The Wake Of An Industrial Disaster, Suroopa Mukherjee

Taking The Boat: The Irish In Leeds, 1931-81, Brendan McGowan

The British Book Trade: An Oral History, Sue Bradley (ed)

Oral History And Ageing, Joanna Bornat and Josie Tetley (eds)

Showfolk: An Oral History Of A Fairground Dynasty, Frank Bruce


Volume 39, No 2 (2011)

Issue 2: "PAST AND PRESENT"

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ARTICLES:

MEMORIES OF FORMER WORLD WAR TWO FORCED LABOURERS - AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON
Christoph Thonfeld (abstract)

THE DISSONANT LIVES OF BRAZILIAN BLACK WOMEN NON-SAMBA SINGERS
Ricardo Santhiago (abstract)

HAS FEMINIST ORAL HISTORY LOST ITS RADICAL/SUBVERSIVE EDGE?
Sherna Berger Gluck (abstract)

MOVING STORIES, WOMEN'S LIVES: SHARING AUTHORITY IN ORAL HISTORY
Alistair Thomson (abstract)

STORYTELLING, FLOODS, WILDFLOWERS AND WASHLANDS: ORAL HISTORY IN THE RIVER OUSE PROJECT
Andrew Holmes and Margaret Pilkington (abstract)

WHOSE STORY COUNTS? CONSTRUCTING AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY AT 40
Hilary Young (abstract)

PUBLIC HISTORY:

WOODBERRY DOWN HOUSING ESTATE: COMMUNITY REPRESENTATION AND ADVOCACY IN PRINT AND FILM
Anna Green, Joanna Bornat, and Tom Hunter (abstract)

LEARNING:

DIGITAL STORY TELLING WITH ENGLISH FOR SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES (ESOL)
Sophie Mitchell

REVIEWS:

THEY SAY IN HARLAN COUNTY: AN ORAL HISTORY, Alessandro Portelli

THE ORAL HISTORY MANUAL: SECOND EDITION, Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan

MEMORY, WAR AND TRAUMA, Nigel C Hunt

THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF THE COMMUNIST PAST IN CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE, James Mark

GREATER EXPECTATIONS: LIVING WITH DOWN SYNDROME IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY, Jan Gothard

FROM FARMS TO FOUNDRIES: AN ARAB COMMUNITY IN INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN, Kevin Searle

WORK AND IDENTITY: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS, John Kirk and Christine Wall