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Spring 2017 ORAL HISTORY 129 THE JOURNAL Zibiah Alfred Loakthar Joanna Bornat OF THE (The Open University) South East (Berkshire, West Midlands (County of Scotland Lindsey Dodd (University of Huddersfield) Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, West Midlands, Herefordshire, Jenny Harding Arthur McIvor, Director, Scottish Oral (London Metropolitan University) Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Heather Norris Nicholson History Centre, University of (University of Huddersfield) Sussex) Warwickshire, Worcestershire) ORAL Sean O’Connell Strathclyde, Humanities & Social (Queen’s University Belfast) Padmini Broomfield, Oral Historian, Julia Letts, Oral History Producer Rob Perks (The British Library) Sciences, Level 3, Lord Hope, HISTORY Hampshire, 07891 077856, (based in Worcestershire), Anindya Raychaudhuri (University of St Andrews) Reviews Editor 141 St James Road, Glasgow G4 0LT, Sheena Rolph (The Open University) [email protected] 01905 453023, [email protected] SOCIETY Christine Wall (University of Westminster) Sheila Jemima, Southampton, [email protected] Current British Work Editor: Cynthia Brown Howard Mitchell, Chair of the (University of Leicester) 023 80 553680, Helen Lloyd, oral history consultant, International Work Editor: Siobhan Warrington Scottish Oral History Group, (Oral Testimony Works) [email protected] Birmingham, 0121 689 0681, 53 Charterhall Grove, Edinburgh Public History Editor: Fiona Cosson (Bournemouth University) Editorial Assistant: Liz Ison Roger Kitchen, 3 Stacey Avenue, [email protected] EH9 3HT, 0131 667 7602, [email protected] VOLUME 45 INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Wolverton, Milton Keynes MK12 5DN, Margaret Tohill, Archivist, NUMBER 1 Riki van Boeschoten (University of Thessaly, Greece) 01908 313514, Worcestershire Archives & Alison Burgess, Local Studies & SPRING 2017 Indira Chowdhury (Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, India) [email protected] Archaeology Servie, The Hive, Information 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