Professor of History, Monash University, Australia (Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research)
Selected publications
Article
Thomson, Al (2007) Four paradigm transformations in oral history: a review essay. Oral History Review, 34 (1). pp. 49-70. ISSN 1533-8592
Thomson, Al (2006) Anzac stories: using personal testimony in war history. War and Society, 25 (2). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0729-2473
Thomson, Alistair (2005) Le storie di vita nello studio dell emigrazione femminile. Quaderni Storici, 120 (3). pp. 685-708. ISSN 03016307
Book Section
Thomson, Alistair (2005) My wayward heart: homesickness, longing and the return of British post-war immigrants from Australia. In: Harper, Marjory (ed.) Emigrant Homecomings: the return movement of emigrants 1600 - 2000. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 105-130. ISBN 9780719070709
Thomson, Alistair (2003) The Anzac legend: popular memory theory into practice in Australia. In: Perks, Robert and Thomson, Alistair (eds.) The Oral History Reader. Routledge, London, pp. 189-201. ISBN 9780415343039
Edited Book
Perks, Robert and Thomson, Alistair (2006) The Oral History Reader (2nd edition). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-34303-8