Narrative, Memory and Everyday Life (2005) is a peer-reviewed collection of research papers edited by Nancy Kelly, Christine Horrocks, Kate Milnes, Brian Roberts, and David Robinson. Emerging from the University of Huddersfield’s Narrative and Memory Research Group, it examines how people use stories and memories to understand everyday life. The book explores the gap between lived experience and the stories people later talk about it. It gives importance to “small stories”—ordinary conversations, brief encounters, and daily reflections—that shape identity as much as major life events. Across sociology, psychology, and qualitative research, the contributors show that memory is not a fixed record of the past but an active tool people used to interpret change, manage transitions, and imagine the future. It also considers how people use narratives to understand everyday risks and uncertainties.
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