‘Family history lends a different perspective’. Family historian Janet Coles on tracing her Huguenot refugee ancestry.
Tag: working-class history
Family History in the Digital Age
In the second article of our feature on the radical potential of family history, family historian Mark Crail reflects on the power of collaboration in the history of working-class movements.
Losing the Memory of Generations
David Horsfield, who was College Librarian at Ruskin from 1972 to 2004, reflects on the destruction of archives there
Beatrix Campbell & the ‘Dagenham’ Moment
‘Made in Dagenham’, the new film by Nigel Cole and Stephen Woolley, captures a key moment in British trade union history. It’s about the landmark strike in 1968 by women machinists at Ford’s factory.
