Publisher's Synopsis
In this revised edition, Paul Thompson argues that oral history can help to create a truer picture of the past, documenting the lives and feeling of all kinds of people, and that its value has been neglected by conventional historians.;The effect of collecting oral evidence, he claims, can be to bind together communities and promote contact between generations.;The development of oral history is traced through its past and into the future, demonstrating how it can be evaluated alongside the traditional sources of history to construct a more democratic record of the past.;There is a new chapter on "Memory and the self" examining the therapeu tic value of reminiscence.
