Doing Working Class History: Research, Heritage and Engagement (2024)
Book
Harrison, L. (2024). O. Betts, & L. Price (Eds.). Doing Working Class History: Research, Heritage and Engagement. Routledge

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of researching, interpreting, and engaging with working-class history is how broad the terms of reference can be. Rarely a week seems to go by without the working-class, however defined (or undefined), being the subj... Read More about Doing Working Class History: Research, Heritage and Engagement.

Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories (2024)
Book Chapter
Harrison, L. (2024). Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories. In Doing Working Class History: Research, Heritage and Engagement. Routledge

In this chapter, Laura Harrison considers the multiple decade-long boom of family history and how it connects to the research and practice of working-class history. Family history, the chapter argues, has much to offer the historian both in terms of... Read More about Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories.

Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960 (2024)
Book Chapter
Harrison, L. (2024). Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960. In Doing Working-Class History: Research, Heritage, and Engagement. Routledge

One Sunday in early January 1954, the Rev. Peter Stanley, senior curate of St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Darlington, County Durham, pronounced in his weekly sermon that the young people parading in the Darlington main streets on the ‘monke... Read More about Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960.

History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Brooks, I., Harrison, L., Reeves, M., Simpson, M., & Wallis, R. (in press). History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students.

his research explores the use of History to enhance education in the field of ICT For Sustainability (ICT4S) in response to a challenge from the ICT4S 2023 conference. No previous studies were found in ICT4S but the literature on History and Educatio... Read More about History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students.