Events

PAST

What Did Women Do in the Miners’ Strike of 1984-5?
26 March 2020

For 2 years, a team of researchers interviewed women from Kent and other coalfields about their experiences in the miners’ strike. The event included oral histories, and encouraged participants to bring along photographs, objects and their own stories.

Organised by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
ucl.ac.uk/women-miners-strike
@coalfieldwomen | fb.me/CoalfieldWomen

Working Class Studies Beyond the Heartlands
3-6 September 2019

With a growing awareness of class-based inequality, Brexit, and a new willingness to discuss working-class issues, we were pleased to host the conference of the Working-Class Studies Association in the UK in September 2019.

In its fifteen year history, this was the first time the Working-Class Studies Association will hold its conference outside its heartland of the USA, aiming to build and consolidate work being carried out currently in the UK and Europe with the USA and elsewhere in the world.

Heritage and Biography: Narrating Pasts, Imagining Futures
9-10 September 2016

Under the critical recognition that we become who we are by telling stories about our pasts, and living the stories we tell, this two-day interdisciplinary doctoral and early career event brought together perspectives on the relationship between heritage and biography from sociology and cultural studies, literary studies, social history, cultural geography and socio-legal studies.