![Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008)[1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.](https://www.recordalife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Recordalife-with-Studs-Terkel-1200x.jpg)
![Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008)[1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.](https://www.recordalife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Recordalife-with-Studs-Terkel-1200x-614x346.jpg)
Today’s Life Story Gift Pack shipments include one going to Chicago, home of our inspiration, Studs Terkel. So we just had to include a pic of his memoirs in tribute. It’s a privilege to be able to return the favour to Chicagoans by capturing some of their life stories too. As on Wikipedia: Louis “Studs” […]
This is the fifth installment of our serialisation of our upcoming book The Recordalife Guide to Creating Your Memoirs. Every post will be a chapter from this book, which we will make available at the end of the serialisation. Part 1 was the Introduction and followed our popular blog post on The Five Elements of […]
Read about the value of oral histories and how they can really capture people’s fascinating life stories and voice in The Observer. A very nice article, mentioning us too, by Nosheen Iqbal on the importance of oral histories and capturing people’s life stories and voice. it is such a privilege being able to record the […]
This is the fourth part of our serialisation of our upcoming book The Recordalife Guide to Creating Your Memoirs. Every post will be a chapter from this book, which we will make available at the end of the serialisation. Part 1 was the Introduction and followed our popular blog post on The Five Elements of […]
Thanks to all who came to see us at Family Tree Live – it was a great event and we met some lovely, interesting people. We had lots of interest and it was clear people liked the simplicity of what we offer – Recordalife Life Stories that capture the memoirs of people in their families, […]
Come and see us on our stand 114 at Family Tree Live #familytreelive, which opens today at Alexandra Palace and is also open tomorrow. You’ll be able to see all we have to offer and how we can help capture your memoirs or those of someone in your family.
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