The roots of oral history: Exploring contrasting attitudes to elite, corporate, and business oral history in Britain and the U.S.

Oral History Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-224

  Perks, Rob ^a,b,c  

^a BRITISH LIBRARY   (United Kingdom)

^{b *}  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

business history; corporate memory; elites; oral history

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956335519     PISSN: 00940798     EISSN: 15338592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ohr/ohq049     Document Type: Review

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