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Anzac Memories

The Oral History Reader

Anzac Memories

 Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend, Monash University Publishing, new edition, 2013 (first edition, Oxford University Press, 1994 – ‘a masterly study of how Australians remember, forget, invent and imagine their experiences of war’ (Ken Inglis); ‘one of the richest and most powerful encounters between the people of Australia’s past and one seeking to make sense of it’ (Australian Historical Studies) 

Ten Pound Poms

The Oral History Reader

Anzac Memories

Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (co-author with A. James Hammerton), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005 - ‘with its sophisticated use of oral history methodology and sensitive analysis [it] stands as a model for the exploration of migration’ (Oral History Review)

The Oral History Reader

The Oral History Reader

Oral History and Photography

 The Oral History Reader (co-editor with Rob Perks), 3rd edition, Routledge, 2016 (earlier editions in 2006 and 1998, 4th edition planned for 2025) – ‘international, interdisciplinary and indispensable’ (Donald Ritchie, USA); ‘a key text for generations of oral history students and practitioners’ (Andrew Flinn, UK)

Oral History and Photography

Oral History and Photography

Oral History and Photography

 Oral History and Photography (co-editor with Alexander Freund), Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 – ‘a thoughtful, complex and wide-ranging anthology that reframes the possibilities for using photographs in oral history practice’ (Oral History Review)

Moving Stories

Oral History and Photography

Australian Lives

 Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries, Manchester University Press and UNSW Press, 2011 - United States Oral History Association Book Award, 2012 - ‘a distinctive collaboration between an historian and four ordinary women’ (Oral History Review); ‘exemplifies the richness of scholarship and practice that informs Thomson’s work’ (Oral History Australia)

Australian Lives

Oral History and Photography

Australian Lives

 Australian Lives: an Intimate History (co-author with Anisa Puri), Monash University Publishing, 2017 – ‘so many rich and varied lives and stories’ (Australian Book Review); ‘an important gathering of stories, one that will only grow in value as the next generations discover it’ (Oral History Review)

Select Oral History Productions

Select Oral History Productions

Select Oral History Productions

 From Glory Boxes to Grindr: Dating in Australia, 1945-2010 (web exhibition with Anisa Puri, 2016.


Anzac Memories Revisited: Searching for Hector Thomson, ABC Radio National Hindsight, 20 April 2014.

Select oral history journal articles and book chapters

 ‘Engaging with Sources: Oral History’, in Tracy Loughran (ed.), Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method, Bloomsbury, 2021.


'Indexing and Interpreting Emotion: Joy and Shame in Oral History', Oral History Australia Journal 41, 2019, 1-11.


‘Oral History’, in Paul A. Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Melissa A. Hardy and Malcolm Williams (eds), SAGE Research Methods Foundations, Sage, 2019.


‘“History is a Conversation”: Teaching Student Historians through Making Digital Histories’ (with Johnny Bell, Rebecca Carland, Peg Fraser) History Australia, 13, 3, 2016, pp. 415-30.


'Digital Aural History: an Australian Case Study', Oral History Review 43, 2, 2016, pp. 292-314. 


‘Life Stories and Historical Analysis', in Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire (eds), Research Methods for History, Edinburgh University Press, second edition, 2016, pp. 104-21.


‘Anzac Memories Revisited: Trauma, Memory and Oral History’, Oral History Review 42, 1, 2015, pp 1-29. 


‘Biography of an Archive: “Australia 1938” and the Vexed Development of Australian Oral History’, Australian Historical Studies 45, 3, 2014, pp 425-449. 


‘Oral History’, in Anna Clark and Paul Ashton (eds), Australian History Now, Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2013, pp. 73-89.


‘Memory and Remembering in Oral History’, in Donald A. Ritchie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook to Oral History, New York, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp 77-95.


'Moving Stories, Women’s Lives: Sharing Authority in Oral History', Oral History, 39, 2, 2011, pp 73-82.


‘Oral history and community history in Britain: personal and critical reflections on twenty-five years of continuity and change’, Oral History, 36, 1, 2008, pp 95-104.


‘Four paradigm transformations in oral history’, Oral History Review 34, 1, 2007, pp 49-70.


'Teaching Oral History to Undergraduate Researchers', in Alan Booth and Paul Hyland (eds), The Handbook of University History Teaching, Manchester University Press, 2000, pp 154-165.


'Moving Stories: Oral History and Migration Studies', Oral History 27, 1, Spring 1999, pp. 24-37.


'Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History', Journal of American History 85, 2, September 1998, pp 581-595.


'Unreliable Memories? The Use and Abuse of Oral History', in Willie Lamont (ed.), Historical Controversies and Historians, UCL Press, 1998, pp. 23-34.


'Memory as a Battlefield: Personal and Political Investments in the National Past', Oral History Review 22, 2, Winter 1995, pp 55-73.


'The Memory and History Debates: Some International Perspectives' (with Michael Frisch and Paula Hamilton), Oral History, 22, 2, 1994, pp 33-43.


'Anzac: Putting Popular Memory Theory Into Practice in Australia', Oral History, Spring 1990, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp 25-31.


'Anzac: exploring national myth and memory in Australia', in Paul Thompson and Raphael Samuel (eds), The Myths We Live By, Routledge, 1990, pp 73-82.

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