British oral historians and the concept of community (original) (raw)

1981

Abstract

The majority of British oral historians are concerned with aspects of local history. Each issue of the journal Oral History records the establishment of new projects focused on the history of particular countries, districts, towns, parishes, villages and even streets. In the last decade a variety of institutions, such as county libraries, local museums, polytechnics, the School of Scottish Studies, the Welsh Folklore Museum and the School of Manchester Studies have sponsored local histories based on oral sources. A plethora of oral history groups and workshops, often bearing the radical name of 'people's histories', have been set up in towns and in the suburbs of London and other cities. Above all, a large number of individuals have concentrated on small geographical areas, partly due to the logistics of interviewing. Most of the work of George Ewart Evans was done in East Anglia and other well-known oral historians have followed his example: Ronald Blythe with a Suffolk...

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