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View article: “Be a Miner”: Constructions and Contestations of Masculinity in the British Coalfields, 1975–1983
“Be a Miner”: Constructions and Contestations of Masculinity in the British Coalfields, 1975–1983 Open
In 1975, the National Coal Board (NCB) produced a short film, “People Will Always Need Coal”, to encourage recruitment into mining. It was extraordinarily attention-grabbing, presenting miners as cosmopolitan playboys. It defined the indus…
View article: ‘The Grocer Carried Me for Three Months’: Retail Support for Workers Involved in Extended Industrial Disputes
‘The Grocer Carried Me for Three Months’: Retail Support for Workers Involved in Extended Industrial Disputes Open
This chapter uses two case studies to explore community support from retailers during protracted industrial disputes: the 1984/1985 British Miners' Strike and the 1951 New Zealand Waterfront Lockout. Across separate but connected societies…
View article: Fighting for the soul of coal: Colliery closures and the moral economy of nationalization in Britain, 1947–1994
Fighting for the soul of coal: Colliery closures and the moral economy of nationalization in Britain, 1947–1994 Open
In this article, we explore the impact of colliery closure programs across the nationalized British coal industry. We chart the regional disparities in these and the mobilization of community opposition to national protests, leading to the…
View article: Contributors
Contributors Open
Her first monograph, Youth Movements, Citizenship and the English Countryside, was published in 2018 and explores the place of the countryside in the citizenship training of mid-century youth organisations.Her most recent research focuses …
View article: The Roots of Populism: Neoliberalism and Working-Class Lives
The Roots of Populism: Neoliberalism and Working-Class Lives Open
This is an accepted manuscript of a review published by Duke University Press on 01/12/2022, available online: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10032434 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.
View article: Managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry, 1947–1994
Managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry, 1947–1994 Open
This article examines managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry. On nationalisation in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) – after 1987 the British Coal Corporation – became the largest socialised industry …
View article: The Shadow of the Mine: coal and the end of industrial Britain
The Shadow of the Mine: coal and the end of industrial Britain Open
This is an accepted manuscript of a book review published by Routledge in Social History on 27 October 2021.
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View article: Revisiting the history of the British coal industry: the politics of legacy, memory and heritage
Revisiting the history of the British coal industry: the politics of legacy, memory and heritage Open
This paper revisits the history of the British coal industry in the context of deindustrialisation, ruptures in electoral politics, and attempts by former miners to preserve a mining past. Methodologically it draws on an oral history proje…
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Bibliography Open
Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. However, the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain's most dangerous industry have gone largely unrecognised by histori…
View article: Martyn Ives, <em>Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Charter in 1919</em>
Martyn Ives, <em>Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Charter in 1919</em> Open
Reviewed by: Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Charter in 1919 by Martyn Ives Keith Gildart Martyn Ives, Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Char…
View article: Martin Ives, Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Charter in 1919
Martin Ives, Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Charter in 1919 Open
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Athabasca University Press/Canadian Committee on Labour History in Labour/Le Travail (Spring 2020), available online: http://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/article/view/6042/6982
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View article: Dust, diesel, and disability in the British coal industry: a view from the coal face, 1985-1992
Dust, diesel, and disability in the British coal industry: a view from the coal face, 1985-1992 Open
In September 1992, I worked my last shift as an underground coal miner at Point of Ayr Colliery in the small North Wales coalfield. Yet I never really left the industry. As a researcher and academic my work has been underpinned by my own b…
View article: A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to the Beatles, 1956-69
A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to the Beatles, 1956-69 Open
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cultural and Social History on 08/10/2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2019.1669854
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View article: ‘Run with the fox and hunt with the hounds’: Managerial Trade-Unionism and the British Association of Colliery Management, 1947–1994
‘Run with the fox and hunt with the hounds’: Managerial Trade-Unionism and the British Association of Colliery Management, 1947–1994 Open
This article examines the evolution of managerial trade-unionism in the British coal industry, specifically focusing on the development of the British Association of Colliery Management (BACM) from 1947 until 1994. It explores the organiza…
View article: Dictionary of Labour Biography
Dictionary of Labour Biography Open
Biography of long serving East Anglian labour movement activist, who won the rural seat of Cambridgeshire for the Labour Party in the 1945 General Election by 44 votes. He has stood seven times before.
View article: Séance Sitters, Ghost Hunters, Spiritualists, and Theosophists: Esoteric Belief and Practice in the British Parliamentary Labour Party, c1929–51
Séance Sitters, Ghost Hunters, Spiritualists, and Theosophists: Esoteric Belief and Practice in the British Parliamentary Labour Party, c1929–51 Open
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Oxford University Press in 20th Century British History on 25/10/2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwx053
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View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores some of the different ways in which punk has been understood, adopted and utilised since it first established i…
View article: The Subcultures Network
The Subcultures Network Open
The Subcultures NetworkThe Subcultures Network formed as the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change in 2011.Its inaugural conference was held that year at London Metropolitan University, and…
View article: “Buying brains and experts”: British coal owners, regulatory capture and miners’ health, 1918 – 1946
“Buying brains and experts”: British coal owners, regulatory capture and miners’ health, 1918 – 1946 Open
This article examines British coal owners’ use of medical and scientific knowledge of occupational lung diseases in the mining industry to resist regulatory changes between 1918 and 1946. It explores the strategies deployed by coal o…