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Direct linkRobin Simmons – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
This paper uses Gramsci's concept of "interregnum" alongside contemporary research on Britain's former coalfields to critically consider the 'condition' of coalfield communities 40 years after the Great Strike of 1984-85 and the rapid demise of the coal industry thereafter. It focuses particularly on the former central coalfield, once…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fuels, Mining, Social Change
Robin Simmons; Martyn Walker – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
This paper draws on an oral history project which focuses on former coalminers' experiences of education and training. It presents the stories of five participants, all of whom undertook significant programmes of post-compulsory education during or immediately after leaving the coal industry and achieved a degree of social mobility over the course…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fuels, Mining, Dislocated Workers
