Outputs (9)

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.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary (2023)
Digital Artefact

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series.

When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary.

The Message (2022)
Book Chapter

How listening to 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 1982, became a life changing class-conscious moment for a 10 year old boy.

And some of us are silenced (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In Mangrove the first of the Small Axe films, bio-chemist student Althea says “We need to challenge the system… We mustn’t be victims but protagonists of our stories and what better way of representing ourselves but self-representing ourselves.” A bo... Read More about And some of us are silenced.

Documentary Premier - The Art of Oppression (2021) (2021)
Digital Artefact

At the intersection of art, social injustice, and womanhood, The Art of Oppression'(2021), directed by Patricia Francis, is a documentary about resilience and hope. The film follows three women artists who use their art to articulate their experience... Read More about Documentary Premier - The Art of Oppression (2021).

Being working class in the academy (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine

While widening access is high on universities’ agendas at undergraduate level, class barriers still prevail in the academy. Here, five working-class scholars describe their experiences of ‘otherness’