Barony: A Fight for Life
Andrew Perchard Towering above the Ayrshire landscape off the road passing the country house of James Boswell’s father to the village of Auchinleck stands the… Read More »Barony: A Fight for Life
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Painting and Mining in Japan and the UK
Grace Millar Sakubei Yamamoto was born in 1892 and loved painting as a child, but like the rest of his family he had to work… Read More »Painting and Mining in Japan and the UK
Attending the ‘Working Environments and the Body’ conference, Shanghai, China, April 2018
Ben Curtis In April 2018 two members of the project team — Professor Keith Gildart and Dr Ben Curtis — travelled to Shanghai to participate in a conference entitled… Read More »Attending the ‘Working Environments and the Body’ conference, Shanghai, China, April 2018
Retail and Community: Strikes and Lockouts
Grace Millar On 9 May 2019, scholars from around the country gathered at the University of Wolverhampton for a Centre for the History of Retailing… Read More »Retail and Community: Strikes and Lockouts
Talking Oral History in Belfast and Glasgow
Grace Millar The ‘On behalf of the People’ project has had a panel accepted for the 2019 Oral History Society Conference in Swansea. We were… Read More »Talking Oral History in Belfast and Glasgow
Women Working in Coalfield Communities
Grace Millar In 1957, Glenys Hunt was 22 and working as a tracer within the planning department in Bestwood Colliery, Nottingham. She took a further… Read More »Women Working in Coalfield Communities
On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry, 1947–1994
Keith Gildart and Andrew Perchard On 1 January 1947 the British coal industry was formally brought under state control with signs at collieries erected declaring that… Read More »On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry, 1947–1994