This album contains extracts from interviews with a wide range of people talking about family history. Some history is recalled in oral form, some in photographic and some in written form, as biographical or autobiographical evidence. Many aspects of this approach to writing are discussed in illuminating and perceptive depth, giving wide-ranging yet informative coverage of the topic. This material forms part of the course A173 Start writing family history.

Latest episodes of the podcast Writing family history - Audio

• Writing family history
• Transcript -- Writing family history
• Working with childhood
• Transcript -- Working with childhood
• Approaching the writing process
• Transcript -- Approaching the writing process
• Writing autobiography
• Transcript -- Writing autobiography
• Interviewing for source material
• Transcript -- Interviewing for source material
• William Taylor interview: part one
• Transcript -- William Taylor interview: part one
• William Taylor interview: part two
• Transcript -- William Taylor interview: part two