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.

Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice? (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2023, June). Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?. Paper presented at Oral History Society Making Histories Together Conference 2023, Nottingham

In 2020, documentary filmmaker Reece Auguiste and his colleagues speculated that ‘[c]o-creation functions as a utopian idea that may never be fully actualized.’ Co-creation and collaboration are concepts that dissemble the power and control intrinsic... Read More about Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?.

In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England (2023)
Book Chapter
Poole, S. (2023). In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England. In S. Lloyd and T. Millet (Eds.), Tokens of Love, Loss and Disrespect, 1750-1850 (93-111). London: Paul Holberton Publishing

Noteworthy eighteenth and nineteenth century public hangings were often marked by the circulation of associative souvenirs, and sometimes of coins. Some, like those professionally minted to mark the execution of James Blomfield Rush in 1849, restrict... Read More about In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England.