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@ahrcpress 3 yr project 'On Behalf of the People': British coal (PI Prof Keith Gildart @ProfGildart; Co-I @ProfPerchard; @graceinwolves ; @DrBCCurtis).
Sep 14, 2021 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Day 2 of our conference starts with @DrBCCurtis and his paper on Oral History of Work at Tower Colliery. Dr Curtis is using recordings of his interviews to talk about the experiences of tech advances in mining. One interview describes the reaction in the community after the explosion at Tower on 13th April 1962:

'The village was silent.'
Sep 14, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Before day 2 of our conference kicks off, here is a thread of our eight locations that we focused on for the project. On Behalf of the People: The Industry and the Coalfields
Sep 13, 2021 • 36 tweets • 10 min read
Wonderful to see so many familiar faces gathering for our end of project event!

'On Behalf of the People': Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry Douglas Nicholls, general secretary of our project partner @GFTU1, begins our event with a reminder of how important education and trade union history is to the labour movement.