Women in the miners' strike, 1984-5: Charting changing gender roles in working-class communities in post-1945 Britain

该项目的总体目标是与来自煤矿社区的妇女共同制作一份关于1984 - 1985年矿工罢工期间妇女活动的综合研究报告，以及一份关于1945年以来工人阶级妇女生活的连续性和变化的新历史报告。矿工罢工期间工人阶级妇女活动的规模是前所未有的，也是使罢工持续下去的关键。现在是一个关于罢工的口述历史项目的好时机，用它作为一个透镜来更广泛地考察战后英国工人阶级的经验和主观性。我们将通过以下研究目标来实现该项目的总体目标：1.我们将与来自煤田社区的妇女共同制作一个重要的新口述历史项目：第一个关于矿工罢工期间煤田妇女行动主义的重要研究，研究行动主义的原因，形式和后果。这将包括75个新的口述历史生活故事采访，10个小组采访和一个回忆日。这项研究将通过单个和小组口述历史共同制作。调查结果将通过10个公共讲习班与受访者和社区分享和辩论。项目网站和面向所有项目伙伴（受访者和其他有关各方）的每月电子通讯将是分享调查结果的另一个途径。研究还将通过国家煤矿博物馆（NCMM）的临时展览和在线展览与社区分享。了解自己的历史是社区活力的关键，该项目旨在显著影响煤田社区对自己近代历史的理解。我们的专题论文（写于项目后的2年）将是第一个对矿工罢工中妇女行动主义的重大历史分析。然而，它也将包括对1945年以来煤田社区生活中工人阶级妇女的更广泛研究：她们的经历，身份和主体性。我们的访谈将是生活故事访谈，使我们能够检查长期的连续性和变化。我们将在访谈中磨练有关“女权主义”的问题，以发展对1968年后“第二波”女权主义对英国社会的影响的重要新理解，以及在1945年后的英国社会中流传的性别平等的“本土”话语;后者在现有的史学中迄今为止在很大程度上被忽视了。我们将通过在NCMM的临时展览和项目网站上的永久展览，提高公众对罢工期间妇女行动主义、工人阶级妇女生活和女权主义的理解。该项目利用公众对矿工罢工和"普通"人历史的重大兴趣，将突出妇女政治活动的重要性（活动和政治的历史往往侧重于男子）。我们还旨在激发人们思考“女权主义”可以有哪些不同的含义。与女权主义团体和历史行为的研讨会将影响当代女权主义团体对女权主义历史和交叉性的理解。2关键阶段3历史教师的完整课程计划（也在项目网站上）将使学校的学生能够抓住来源和问题。我们的工作将改变研究格局，对战后英国的史学产生重大影响，包括理论和方法论辩论，以及性别和女权主义研究。我们将出席2个国际会议，并通过一本专著和3篇同行评议的期刊文章向学术界传播我们的研究结果。我们将制作一个主要的新收集的生活故事口述历史采访的工人阶级妇女，在国家煤矿博物馆存档（沿着新的物理档案收集有关的罢工）。这将为历史学家创造一个重要的新资源，以进一步发展对战后英国工人阶级生活的理解。

This project's overall objective is to co-produce, with women from coalfield communities, a comprehensive study of women's activism during the miners' strike of 1984-5, and a new history of continuity and change in working-class women's lives from 1945 on. Working-class women's activism during the miners' strike was unprecedented in scope and key to keeping the strike going. The time is right for a major oral history project on the strike, using it as a lens to examine working-class experiences and subjectivities more broadly in postwar Britain.We will address the project's overarching aim via the following research objectives:1. We will co-produce with women from coalfield communities a major new oral history project: the first major study of women's activism in coalfields during the miners' strike, examining the causes, forms, and consequences of activism. This will involve 75 new oral history life-story interviews, 10 group interviews and one reminiscence day.2. The research will be co-produced throughout through single and group oral histories. Findings will be shared and debated with interviewees and communities through 10 public workshops. The project website and monthly e-newsletter for all project associates (interviewees and other interested parties) will be another route for sharing findings. Research will also be shared with communities through the temporary exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum (NCMM) and online exhibition. Understanding one's own history is key to the vitality of communities, and the project aims to significantly impact coalfield communities' understandings of their own recent history.3. Our monograph (written in the 2 years after project) will be the first major historical analysis of women's activism in the miners' strike.4. It will also, however, encompass a wider study of working-class women in coalfield communities' lives since 1945: their experiences, identities and subjectivities. Our interviews will be life-story interviews, allowing us to examine continuity and change over the long-term. We will hone in on questions about 'feminism' in interviews, to develop important new understandings of the impact of 'Second Wave' feminism on British society after 1968, and of the 'vernacular' discourses of gender equality which circulated in post-1945 British society; the latter have been largely overlooked thus far in existing historiography.5. We will enhance public understanding of women's activism during the strike, working-class women's lives, and feminism, through our temporary exhibition at the NCMM and the permanent exhibition on the project website. Tapping into significant popular interest in the miners' strike and the history of 'ordinary' people, the project will highlight the importance of women's political activism (histories of activism and politics often focus on men). We also aim to provoke people to think about what different meanings 'feminism' can have. A workshop with feminist groups and History Acts will impact on contemporary feminist groups' understandings of feminist history and intersectionality. 2 complete lesson plans for Key Stage 3 history teachers (also on the project website) will enable school students to grapple with the sources and issues.6. Our work will transform the research landscape, significantly impacting on the historiography of postwar Britain, including theoretical and methodological debates, and gender and feminist studies. We will present at 2 international conferences and disseminate our findings to academic audiences through a monograph and 3 peer-reviewed journal articles.7. We will produce a major new collection of life-story oral history interviews with working-class women, to be archived at the National Coal Mining Museum (along with new physical archival collections relating to the strike). This will create a major new resource for historians to further develop understandings of working-class life in postwar Britain.