Hasan Muhammad Abd al-Latif, aged 67 from Battir discussing the Ottoman period and World War I Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Bea Brown Jacob Norris 10.25377/sussex.7271546.v1 https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Hasan_Muhammad_Abd_al-Latif_aged_67_from_Battir_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271546 Hasan Muhammad Abd al-Latif (67 years old from Battir) interviewed by Reem al-Batma. <div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: economic situation in Battir which was dependent on farming and the whole family working together; how they used to live in those days including the use of gas lamps to light the houses and how people used to dress; only education received was learning the Quran; military conscription started from age 16; it became more common for men from the village to marry women from other villages and towns; when World War I started most of the men from the village were taken away to military conscription; when somebody in the village died there were no men to bury the body; locust plague; agriculture was severely affected by the war; Ottoman army diverted the village springs for their war effort; when the war ended the British built houses for the employees of the train station. </div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: cassette tape.</div><div>Transcript: word for word. </div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 1 of Box 13. </div><div><br></div><div>This fileset exists as part of the Ottoman Empire and World War I collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.<br></div> 2019-08-21 07:26:49 Ottoman Empire and World War I collection World War I in Bethlehem Bethlehem oral history Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem Locust plague 1915 Bethlehem University British Mandate in Palestine Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history