Oral History

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …

including the Elizabeth Roberts Working Class Oral History Archive at Lancaster University; 4 Twenty-four … that sort of thing, as borne out strongly in my oral history sample. But something had changed. After all … these are reinforced with three strands of oral history or written testimony. First, I have analysed … a number of pre-existing publicly available oral history collections for perspectives on welfare in … words transcribed by the Hertford and Ware Oral History Group, through to 104 relevant interviews available …

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

indebted to the many people who helped me contact oral history participants or who gave me access to their …

“This book is absolutely amazing and one of the most original collections that I have read in many years. Intended for everyone who inhabits Turtle Island—Indigenous and settler alike—Manomin encourages …

is essential to Anishinaabe survival. In the oral history and teachings of the Anishinaabeg, the people …

Slings & Arrows, starring Susan Coyne, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, and Mark McKinney as members of the New Burbage Theatre Festival, was heralded by television critics as one of the …

for permission to quote from the John Hirsch oral history at Library and Archives Canada. My greatest …

Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly …

National Famine Way, and the Great Famine Voices oral history project, sponsored by the Irish Heritage Trust …

In Louis XIV’s New France, colonial authorities attempted to reproduce French regal authority in novel ways, often by performing typical metropolitan political rituals. When these practices were transposed into the …

governor, but on a grander scale. According to an oral history passed down for many generations, when Na-nà-ma-kee …

Explores the integral roles that Métis women assumed to ensure the survival of their communities during the fur trade era and onward Métis Matriarchs examines the impact of prominent Métis …

Legault draws on archival material and the oral history of Fayant family members and Elders to reveal … Payment, The Free People. 2 Oral histories and oral history collections that relate to the Prairie Métis … memoirs, and community histories based on this oral history that reveals women’s roles within their families … clarity in the documented records or from the oral history shared by family members as to their financial …

Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk are entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Only with the integration of Indigenous perspectives, beginning in the 1920s, was this accepted …

Labrador, and Nova Scotia who participated in the oral history research and taught me so much more than I … different perspective, one based largely on the oral history of the Mi’kmaq people in Newfoundland. In … light of the contemporary10 B E O T H U K oral history of the Mi’kmaq people in Newfoundland. When … from a variety of sources and disciplines: the oral history of contempo- rary Labrador Innu and Beothuk … motivation, particularly in the course of my oral history research with Indigenous people in Newfoundland …

The nineteenth century was a time of upheaval for the Algonquin people. Focusing on those living around Lake Timiskaming and Lake Abitibi along the Ontario-Quebec border over a century, this …

Worthy as the Earth Eli Baxter 103 Atiqput Inuit Oral History and Project Naming Edited by Carol Payne, … also have been insufficient for our purpose; oral history is limited in time, and in many cases does … (Mitcikanabikong) bands,53 corroborating the oral history of the Grand Lac band, which, early in the …

Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowd¬ed its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy …

inhabited it.6 For instance, according to the oral history of the Seneca, a great beast named Gaasyendietha …