Here's a nice article about the NCB1947 project and its forthcoming event in Auchinleck on 23 March 😀⛏️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿: cumnockchronicle.com/news/24169313.…

A fascinating project. 👏

A great event and project, which the NCB1947 are closely involved in. Team members Professor Keith Gildart & Andy Perchard will be attending/ speaking at it. See you there.

One of two new publications from the OBTP project: "Be a Miner": Constructions and Contestations of Masculinity in the British Coalfields, 1975 - 1983 in International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press - History: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The second of our new publications: "They're still fighting the fight on Facebook": The landscape of social media remembering the British coal industry in Oral History Oral History Society. Open Access version available here: wlv.openrepository.com/handle/2436/62…

For 40 years, the People’s Story has shared Edinburgh’s rich diverse working-class history with its residents and school pupils. The Scottish Labour History Society is alarmed to hear The City of Edinburgh Council’s Culture and Communities Committee will vote on its closure this week. Pls share.

Looking forward to making a contribution to this event next week (10th) at the Four Corners Gallery in London. fourcornersfilm.co.uk/whats-on/one-y…

Just gave an interview about the closure of Ratcliffe coal power station and the visual geography of industrial localities. This album cover by the Hollies is great. Soundtracked many working class lives.

Congratulations Emily P Webber

#OnThisDay 1984. NACODS president Ken Sampey blames the National Coal Board chairman Ian MacGregor for the breakdown in peace talks.

Watch this space to hear more about NCB1947 team's ongoing work on this, including the NUM's Paul Darlow & General Federation of Trade Unions. Thanks @deindustrialpol

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Catch Andy Perchard and Professor Keith Gildart talking about the findings from the NCB1947 project on the hottest blog spot in town @deindustrialpol

Funded PhDs on place & memory, Univ of Stirling. Apply by Dec 20, start March/April 2025. Background open, study eg dynamic relations of place & memory; navigating together in space & time; disorientation & difficult places; cognitive ecologies of the city placememory.net/apply-now-for-…

New out from NCB1947 Andy Perchard & Professor Keith Gildart on just energy transitions, industrial closures and lessons from the nationalised British coal industry in The Extractive Industries & Society: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @deindustrialpol

Talking yesterday to a film maker about Springsteen and mining and the 1985 Leeds Roundhay Park concert.

A long shot but the naturally regenerated tree growth on the old Whinhill pit #bing #Alloa #Coal Co. 1873-1936 (the one by Morrisons) has been felled anyone know why? #MiningLandscapes #MiningHeritage #Clackmannanshire

NCB1947 Andy Perchard, Professor Keith Gildart & Ben Curtis editors for new special issue, 'moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science' in Economic and Industrial Democracy SAGE Publications. OA editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01… @deindustrialpol

OBTP own Keith Gildart and Andy Perchard speaking at this event.

Latest article by Perchard and me on Scottish pop music and the politics of deindustrialisation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…