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Oral History

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Episode Description

In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Anna Bryson from Queen’s University Belfast about the use of oral history as a method in Socio-Legal research.

Readings on Oral History Recommended by Dr Anna Bryson

Thompson, P. (2017). The Voice of the Past (4th ed., OUP).

Perks, R. and Thomson, A (eds). (2016). The Oral History Reader (3rd ed., Routledge).

Tonkin, E. (1992). Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Cultures, CUP).

Bryson, A. (2016). Victims, Violence and Voice: Transitional Justice, Oral History and Dealing with the Past. 39(2) Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 299.

About the Speaker

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Dr Anna Bryson

Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast

Dr Anna Bryson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and a Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Her research has developed along three closely related lines: modern Irish history, Socio-Legal Studies and conflict transformation. She is currently working on three RCUK funded projects - 'Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past' (ESRC), 'Lawyers, Conflict and Transition' (ESRC) and Enhancing Democratic Habits: An Oral History of the Law Centres Movement (AHRC). At the time of making this recording she was a Visiting fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford.

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