Interview with Paul Thompson

Paul Thompson is a historian and a sociologist, who has pioneered the development of oral history as a research methodology. He is founding editor of the journal Oral History and founder of the National Life Stories at the British Library in London. He is author of The Edwardians (1975), The Voice of the Past (1978), Living the Fishing (1983), The Myths We Live By (1990), City Lives (1996), Pathways to Social Class (1998), and Jamaican Hands across the Atlantic (2006). In June 2018, Thompson has been at PPGHIS / UFRJ and, after a lecture, he answered questions from professors and students of the program. The event was recorded, transcribed by Daniel Dutra, edited and now published by TOPOI. We thank Matthias Assunção and Lise Sedrez for the collaboration throughout the entire process, as well as their participation in the editing process of the transcribed text. In addition to Assunção and Sedrez, Sílvia Correia, Luiza Larangeira and Henrique Gusmão participated in the work of adapting the text to this version published here.