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Murray Watson

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Born

in Jedburgh, The United Kingdom

Website

http://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/invisible-immi...

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Nonfiction, History, Contemporary

Influences

Michel Foucault, TC Smout, and Alessandro Portelli

Member Since

March 2015

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Following a career in international marketing I took a PhD becoming an oral historian who enjoys travelling to and from the UK and North America to explore the hitherto hidden history of the great English Diaspora.

Back home I love my family and enjoy my Great Dane, Tilley. As a volunteer I use my oral history experience to run a reminiscence therapy group for Alzheimer Scotland.

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	Redemptive Trauma: Confession of a Defrocked Priest by David Giffen (Goodreads Author), Murray Watson (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invisible Immigrants: The English in Canada since 1945 (Studies in Immigration and Culture, 12) by Marilyn Barber, Murray Watson (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Being English in Scotland 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invention of the First-Century Synagogue (Ancient Near East Monographs) by Lidia D. Matassa, Jason M. Silverman, Murray Watson (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Restoring the Gospels' Jewish Voice: André Chouraqui and the Intersection of Biblical Translation and Interfaith Dialogue 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Restoring the Gospels' Jewish Voice: André Chouraqui and the Intersection of Biblical Translation and Interfaith Dialogue by Murray Watson (Goodreads Author), Yehezkel Landau 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Distorted by Time 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A very special privilege we enjoy as oral historians is to gain access to the innermost thoughts and personal memories of our interviewees. Without their insights our work investigating and explaining the nature of postwar English immigration to Canada would be incomplete and less colourful. Above all, meaningful analysis of immigrant lives would be severely restricted - as one historian observed, Read more of this blog post »

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