Re-Use

The interviews were intended as a source of primary historical information, but the recordings also have great value with regards to the study of spoken English and regional dialects. This value is enhanced by the inclusion of information about the place of origin of interviewees' parents and about the geographical and social movements of interviewees.

With what weight the secondary analyst uses the three components of the archive, the sound recordings, the complete transcripts, and the thematic segments, depends upon his or her purpose, for example life histories or single areas of experience.

Who has re-used the data?

There were at least 88 secondary users between 1973 and 1996, originating not only from this country but also from Italy, Canada, the USA, Australia and Greece. This has led to the data being used in many books, articles and BA, MA and PhD theses.

Selected publications arising:

Burchardt, N. (1990) 'Stepchildren's memories: myth, understanding and forgiveness', in R. Samuel and P.R. Thompson (eds.) The Myths We Live By, London: Routledge.

Childs, M.J. (1992) Labour's apprentices, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Crouch, D. and Ward, C. (1988) The allotment: its landscape and culture, Nottingham: Five Leaves Pub.

Foley, A. (1973) A Bolton childhood, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Gills, J.R. (1985) For better, for worse: British marriages, 1600 to the present, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Howkins, A. (1977) 'The small shopkeeper in industrial and market towns', in G. Crossick (ed.) The Lower Middle Class in Britain, 1870 - 1914, London: Croom Helm.

Joyce, P. (1982) Work, society and politics: the culture of the factory in late Victorian England, London: Methuen.

McLeod, H. (1986) 'Religion: the oral evidence', in Oral History, 14.

Meacham, S. (1977) A life apart: the English working class 1890 - 1914, London: Thames & Hudson.

More, C. (1980) Skill and the English working class 1870 - 1914, London: Croom Helm.

Oram, A. (1995) 'Equality first: women teachers and Feminist politics, 1900 - 1939', Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Rose, J. (1993) 'Willingly to school: the working-class response to elementary education in Britain, 1875 - 1918', in Journal of British Studies, 32.

Ross, E. (1982-3) 'Fierce questions and taunts: married life in working-class London', 1870-1914', in Feminist Studies, 8.

Ross, E. (1983) 'Survival networks: women's neighbourhood sharing in London before World War One', in History Workshop, 15.

Thompson, P.R., Itzin, C., and Abendstern, M. (1990) I don't feel old: the experience of ageing, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Thompson, P.R. (1975/1992) The Edwardians: the remaking of British society, London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1975; London: Routledge, 2nd edition, 1992.

Thompson, P.R. (1978/1988) The voice of the past, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978; 2nd edition, 1988.

Thompson, T. (1981) Edwardian childhoods, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Vincent, D. and Miles, A. (1993) Building European Society: occupational change and social mobility in Europe, 1840 - 1940, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Vincent, D. (1997) 'Shadow and reality in occupational history', in D.Bertaux and P.R.Thompson (eds.) Pathways to social class, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wolff, M. And Dyos, H.J. (eds.) (1973) The Victorian city: images and realities, London, Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.