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For almost half a century, the Oral History Society has supported people who want to record and preserve spoken history and share it with others. We encourage people of all ages to record their own and other people’s life stories.

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In their own words? Challenges of presenting stories of Syrian refugees in Wales
Thoughts on the challenges and responsibility of editing and presenting oral histories translated from their original language.
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The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain Since 1945
By Eve Worth London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 248 pages, hardback £85.00, e-book £76.50 The Welfare State Generation is a methodologically and thematically-sophisticated exploration of the life histories of thirty-six women from birth in the