Myanmar Oral History project

09/06/2025

06/04/2023

Charles Haswell Campagnac (1886 to 1970) -This episode 5 deals with the horrors of war which befell Burma during WW2

Charles Haswell Campagnac (1886 to 1970) wrote much of his autobiography before he died and we have his daughter, Sandra and other members of his family to thank for pulling all of his notes together and producing The Autobiography of a Wanderer i...

06/04/2023

Charles Haswell Campagnac (1886 to 1970) -This episode 4 of his life story deals with his views on the use of the death penalty in Burma in the 1920s, the difference between Anglo Burmans and Anglo Indians and his election to Rangoon Municipal Council

Charles Haswell Campagnac (1886 to 1970) wrote much of his autobiography before he died and we have his daughter, Sandra and other members of his family to thank for pulling all of his notes together and producing The Autobiography of a Wanderer i...

06/04/2023

Charles Haswell Campagnac (1886 to 1970) -this episode 3 of his life story deals with some of the colourful characters he met outside his practice as a barrister

Charles Haswell Campagnac (1886 to 1970) wrote much of his autobiography before he died and we have his daughter, Sandra and other members of his family to thank for pulling all of his notes together and producing The Autobiography of a Wanderer i...

06/04/2023

Charles Haswell Campagnac (1886 to 1970) - Episode 2 covering his involvement as a barrister in the famous case of the newspaper publisher of The Rangoon Times, Mr. Channing Arnold who was prosecuted in 1913 for defamation of two British civil servants

Charles Haswell Campagnac (1886 to 1970) wrote much of his autobiography before he died and we have his daughter, Sandra and other members of his family to thank for pulling all of his notes together and producing The Autobiography of a Wanderer i...

06/04/2023

Charles Haswell Campagnac (1886 to 1970) - Barrister, Lord Mayor of Rangoon and Member of the Legislative Council - Episode 1 covering his early years of legal practice in Rangoon commencing in 1909

Charles Haswell Campagnac (1886 to 1970) wrote much of his autobiography before he died and we have his daughter, Sandra and other members of his family to thank for pulling all of his notes together and producing The Autobiography of a Wanderer i...

20/04/2022

Sao Noan Oo was born in 1931 in Shan State as a princess, being the daughter of the Sawbwa or Sao Hpa of Lawksawk, a state in the Federated Shan States or Mong Tai.Sao Noan Oo was studying in England at the time of the 1962 coup and her scholarshi...

13/04/2022

Sao Noan Oo was born in 1931 in Shan State as a princess, being the daughter of the Sawbwa or Sao Hpa of Lawksawk, a state in the Federated Shan States or Mong Tai.Sao Noan Oo was studying in England at the time of the 1962 coup and her scholarshi...

21/03/2022

Below is a photo of U Thein Tun's wife Daw Mya Aye (Polly) who was one of the first 6 women officers in the Burmese Navy. She is sitting at the end of the front row at a training session at West Point in the 1950s

21/03/2022

Yesterday I loaded two podcast interviews with U Thein Tun:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/138215/10235648-u-thein-tun-born-1931-tt-as-he-is-known-had-a-long-and-successful-career-in-the-navy-followed-by-a-similarly-successful-business-career-this-episode-covers-his-life-to-1988.mp3?download=true
https://www.buzzsprout.com/138215/10272284-u-thein-tun-born-1931-tt-as-he-is-known-had-a-long-and-successful-career-in-the-navy-followed-by-a-similarly-successful-business-career-this-episode-covers-his-life-story-from-1988.mp3?download=true
Attached is a photo from his time at Royal College Dartmouth in England in the late 1940s