Outputs (8)

History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Affordable housing and urban politics in Spain, 1924-1937: Málaga’s ‘Garden City’, from Dictatorship to Republic (2024)
Journal Article

This article explores working class housing schemes and urban planning to gain a new angle for viewing successive national political crises in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on the southern city of Málaga through a micro-study of the Ciudad... Read More about Affordable housing and urban politics in Spain, 1924-1937: Málaga’s ‘Garden City’, from Dictatorship to Republic.

Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories (2024)
Book Chapter

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

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.

Doing Working Class History: Research, Heritage and Engagement (2024)
Book

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.

Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter is based on Wallis and Johnson’s practical, collaborative work with a number of British criminal justice heritage sites, where the majority of the personal stories interpreted for public audiences might be considered as ‘working-class’ l... Read More about Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites.

A ham carved by the sword of European imperialism: African views on the Berlin Conference from 1885 to the present (2024)
Book Chapter

Reading his way to royalism? Sir Thomas Myddelton, side-changing and loyalty in England and Wales, 1639-1666 (2024)
Journal Article

Civil War allegiance has long been a preoccupation of early modern British historians. They have weighed geographical, religious, political, and pragmatic reasons for British people to choose sides in 1642. Just as important is a change of allegiance... Read More about Reading his way to royalism? Sir Thomas Myddelton, side-changing and loyalty in England and Wales, 1639-1666.