In 2011 Liz Stanley organised a conference to discuss developments in life story work since the publication of Documents of Life.
This was a book I first published in 1983 when I was busy using personal documents in research; and was re-written in 2001 as Documents of Life-2: An Invitation to a Critical Humanism. The second edition is substantially different from the first – but the publishers did not want me to change the name.
And now this new book has just been published. This new book contains 13 new essays – and ends with an epilogue from me. This epilogue marks the publication of my
A MANIFESTO FOR SOCIAL STORIES : you can click here to read the original unedited version.