Open Archive: The Miners' Strike: A Case Study in Regional Context
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: Institute of Communication Studies
Abstract
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Publications
Popple S E (Co-Author) Bailey, M. (Co-Author)
(2011)
The 1984/85 Miners' Strike: Re-claiming Cultural Heritage
Simon Popple (Author)
(2013)
Content Cultures: Transformations of User Generated Content in Public Service Broadcasting
Popple Simon MacDonald Ian W
(2014)
Digging the Seam: Popular Cultures of the 1984/5 Miners' Strike
| Title | "Families" - This is a compilation drawn from all participants where they discuss the effects of the Strike on their families & family life. |
| Description | A short film |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Public presentation of the author's views. |
| URL | http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/4029-2/strike-stories-films/ |
| Title | "Interviews & Reflections on the Project" - This is a compilation of a series of interviews we conducted with all the participants about their memories of the Strike. |
| Description | Short film |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Publication of author views |
| URL | http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/4029-2/strike-stories-films/ |
| Title | "Maggie's Bullyboys?" This film explores the feelings of a group of Police Officers & how they felt they had been portrayed as supporters of the Thatcher Government. |
| Description | Short Film |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Publication of author's views |
| URL | http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/4029-2/strike-stories-films/ |
| Title | "My Story" - This is one Miner's story of the destruction of a former pit community in the wake of the Strike. |
| Description | Short film |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Publication of author views |
| URL | http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/4029-2/strike-stories-films/ |
| Title | "Police Tactics", Film overview of how policing has changed as a result to the strike, the tactics which were developed & the longer term impact of the strike in the perception of the Police. |
| Description | Short Film |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Public presentation of author's views. |
| URL | http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/4029-2/strike-stories-films/ |
| Title | "Strikers Tactics" - This is an individual Miner's account of the tactics they deployed during the Strike - particularly in the tracking & targeting of Strike Breakers. |
| Description | Short film |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Publication of author' views |
| URL | http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/4029-2/strike-stories-films/ |
| Title | "The Year we saw the Light". This is the personal story of one Miner, his community & the effect the Strike has had on his life. |
| Description | Short film |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Publication of author views |
| URL | http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/4029-2/strike-stories-films/ |
| Title | "Trade Unionism & City of Steel". Film by a female striker, looks at landscapes of trade unionism in Sheffield, the heart of the NUM & ways which it's disappeared from urban landscape/popular memory. |
| Description | Short Film |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Publication of author views |
| URL | http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/4029-2/strike-stories-films/ |
| Title | "What did you do in the Strike, Daddy?" This film is an interview between a union official & his daughter about the strike, his arrest & her memories of the event as a child. |
| Description | Short film |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Publication of author's views |
| URL | http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/4029-2/strike-stories-films/ |
| Title | "Women Against Pit Closures", A reflective discussion between a group of women involved in the Women Against Pit Closures Campaign, their reflections on the strike & how it changed their lives. |
| Description | Short film |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Publication of author's views |
| URL | http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/4029-2/strike-stories-films/ |
| Title | The project has been invited to contribute to the British Film Institutes "King Coal" season & will be screening the films made on this project. |
| Description | Film screening at the National Film Theatre |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2011 |
| Impact | Public event and discussion |
| Description | We worked with the BBC to examine the relationships between their institutional collections and the communities that they represent. As a consequence the BBC began to re-examine issues around access and voice and we subsequently embarked on a conversation about developing public impact. This has turned into our current AHRC funded Pararchive Project. |
| Exploitation Route | As a policy guide for working with communities. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Description | By the BBC to frame future archive policy. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural |
| Description | Discussed in detail with BBC, the potential for follow-on project work & we are working directly with H.Thomas, Head of BBC North, on a number of programme projects. |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Information taken from Final Report |
| Description | Intending to commission new works to explore its key themes & been working with poet I. Macmillan & the documentary photographer I. Beesely, we are currently exploring this in collaboration with the Opera North. |
| Organisation | Opera North |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Information taken from Final Report |
| Collaborator Contribution | This was a joint cultural event between the University, Opera North and independent practitioners. |
| Impact | Part of the Libretto is included in the Digging the Seam Book. |
| Start Year | 2010 |