Women in the Miners' Strike 1984-5
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AHRC project documenting women's experiences during the miners' strike of 1984-5. Online exhibition: https://t.co/WDeJpqSg70
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Joined April 2018
We're having a launch event for our book on Friday February 23rd, in London. Everyone is welcome, but places are limited - do sign up through the link below if you're interested!
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A short film screening and panel discussion to celebrate the publication of 'Women in the Miners' Strike, 1984-5', with lunch and drinks
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Update - get 30% off with this code AAFLYG6 when you buy direct from OUP https://t.co/iQjcIgr6Ks
Publication day :-) We are so happy to see this out in the world! (Interviewees: you’ll be receiving information very shortly about how to get your free copy). It was such a privilege to hear all these stories from so many women - this book is for them.
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Publication day :-) We are so happy to see this out in the world! (Interviewees: you’ll be receiving information very shortly about how to get your free copy). It was such a privilege to hear all these stories from so many women - this book is for them.
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Coalfield women support the UCU strike (obviously!) and also think that if people managed to stay out for a *whole year* during the miners' strike, most lecturers probably can afford to go on strike for 10 days tbh
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Opening this Friday 1-4.30pm, and visit-able until February during our drop-in Friday afternoons, we're delighted to host a guest exhibition from @PistonPen, 'Literature in the Mines', with additional mining material from our own collections. More info at https://t.co/XrTf2OFEFo
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Just had the best 2 days @XPschool talking with the year 7s all about the miners' strike in Doncaster - so impressed with how engaged and enthusiastic the students were! Thank you to @Hannamanam for organising it, and all the XP staff for all their help.
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Our first article that uses interviews from the project is out! I know some of our interviewees follow us on here, so if you'd like a PDF copy of the article, just send us a message and we'll sort it out for you x
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(of course, we realise this might have differed from place to place, too, so let us know where you're from if you have any answers for us!)
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We've a question for everyone who went to the soup kitchens during the strike! Do you think most people who went for meals were striking miners+ kids, or did lots of women go too? We know lots of activist women ran the kitchens and ate at them. But what about non-activist women?
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Any teachers interested in teaching oral history and women's experiences in the miners' strike, come along to our talk tomorrow! It's free, and we'll be introducing the resources we made for 3 KS3 lessons on the topic, as well as talking about our fascinating research findings
Our final event of the academic year is on the 1st July! We will be joined by Dr Natalie Thomlinson and Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite who will talk about their oral-history project on the experiences of women during the Miners' Strike of 1984-5!
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UCL History's annual Neale lecture is tomorrow, and Dr Kennetta Hammond Perry will be giving what promises to be an amazing lecture on Black British history and politics Free, on Zoom - sign up below!
📢2021 Neale Lecture📢 Kennetta Hammond Perry - 'Sensory Encounters With the Archive of David Oluwale' - Wednesday 12th May @ 5.30pm: https://t.co/OS0zohtYEU
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History teacher? Not too late to join us for this this evening and find out about our KS3 resources on women and the miners’ strike! We’re excited!
There is a UCL Teacher Masterclass on Tuesday at 6pm. Looking at how historians and teachers have collaborated on bringing women's voices from the miners' strike into the classroom. Loved working with @sadhistorygeek and @TIJenner on this. Sign up here: https://t.co/MUF8RGSg6i
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We’re very sad to hear of the death of Hywel Francis. He gave us some really useful information about the strike in S Wales when we were interviewing his wife Mair for the project,+ by all accounts was a lovely man. Our thoughts are with Mair + his family.
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The ex-Labour MP for Aberavon and historian died earlier surrounded by relatives, his family says.
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Book launch! @ewangibbs 'Coal Country', 25 Feb., 7pm, online Promises to be a fascinating discussion of coal mining, deindustrialisation, the miners' strike, and political and social change in Scotland Details and sign up here: https://t.co/z6yFPUC3kC
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We’d love to see what the women who put food parcels together during the strike could do with 30 quid to feed a family!
#FreeSchoolMeals On the left £30 of food. On the right what private company Chartwells have supplied having been awarded a government contract to supply for £30 free school meals. Utterly shameful profiteering off some of the country's most disadvantaged kids!
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Wow just seen this fab pic of Astley pit headgear, now @mining_museum on their FB page #childhoodmemories 📸 Gary Clee
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It's today!! All welcome, sign up below to get the Zoom link
📢Women Against Pit Closures and Women's Lib!📢 Lots of people have asked us what lessons our research on women's activism in the miners' strike of 1984-5 has for feminism today ... so we're doing an event! Monday 14 Dec, 7pm, on Zoom, all welcome Book:
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An explosion at Oaks Colliery, Barnsley, killed 383 men and boys #OnThisDay in 1866 – the worst pit disaster in English history. A strike 2 years earlier for safer conditions was broken by the use of scab labour and evictions. 169 unrecovered bodies remain entombed at the site
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We've got an exciting new set of @UofGlasgowESH fortnightly Thursday seminars for 2021. They'll all be on Zoom at 11am, so get in touch with me if you want the code. We'll hear papers by @jack_saundrs, Anna Spadavecchia, @CoalfieldWomen and @rmason717. All welcome.
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