Echoes of protest: untold stories of the 1984-1985 UK Miners' Strike

Ballin, Deborah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1920-3022 and Johnson, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8884-4192 (2017) Echoes of protest: untold stories of the 1984-1985 UK Miners' Strike. Oral History Society Journal, 45 (1). pp. 100-110.

Abstract

This journal article looks at a collaborative project by artist/filmmaker Esther Johnson and filmmaker/writer Debbie Ballin titled Echoes of Protest. This research investigates the legacy of being involved in significant protest movements from a child’s perspective and seeks to understand the role protest can play in the lives of children, and to explore its aftermath. This article will draw upon oral testimony transcriptions and photography undertaken for this project to highlight a perspective of the 1984-85 UK Miners’ Strike that has seldom been explored. The stories collected are from adults remembering what it was like to grow up as a child during the Strike. They articulate the experience with a maturity they may have been unable to express at the time. The text will follow the research methodology, findings, discuss the editing process and invite contributors to reflect on their participation.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© Deborah Ballin and Esther Johnson, 2017. The definitive, peer reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Oral History Society Journal, 45:1, pp. 100-110, 2017, http://www.ohs.org.uk/journal/.
Keywords:	cross-disciplinary research, documentary, exhibition, interviewing process, memory, Miners’ Strike, museums, oral testimony, photography
Depositing User:	Mr Henry Gonnet
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2018 14:45
Last Modified:	20 Sep 2022 07:41
Related URLs:	http://www.ohs.org.uk/journal/
URI:	https://lau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17309

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