Historian and activist, re-transplanted from NZ to Wolverhampton.
Joined February 2010
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Our Black History Month blogpost features @normagregoryNNC @garyyounge and some research from our project.
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Our latest blogpost is about an exhibition of Sakubei Yamamoto's mining art, currently touring the UK. What enables miners to create art? medium.com/@ncb1947/painting…
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Earlier this year we had a workshop with Japanese scholars of mining that started in Sheffield University and finished at the Durham Miners' Gala. medium.com/@ncb1947/durhamco…
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How have local shops supported strikes? What does that tell us about retail and community? Our latest blogpost is a report on the CHORD conference earlier this year. wlv.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-…
I hope you have internet access @ProfGildart
Bruce Springsteen surprise-released a new live album chronicling his October 13th, 1986 acoustic set at Neil Young’s inaugural Bridge School Benefit Concert rol.st/2yOwV2r
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The shipyard protesters and Irish language campaigners are now standing together. Shipyard workers even chanting in Irish now.. #scenes today at Stormont, busiest it’s been in a long, long time...
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A lovely question from one of the history students at Papatoetoe High School this morning:
"We're all historians here. What tips or advice would you give us younger ones?'
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One of deindustrialization’s effects is rendering remaining industrial workers and their struggles invisible or anachronistic. That’s encapsulated in a metropolitan journalist sneering at the campaign to save a 163 year old railway works, a source of secure jobs in Glasgow.
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The predecessor unions that make up today’s @FIRST_Union (NDU) stood with Ngāti Whatua at Bastion Point. They do so today with @protectihumatao.
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Large Ihumātao hīkoi gathering in Wellington to call on the PM and the Govt to step in.
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Congrats also to our 2019 Bert Roth Award Runner Up, Caren Wilton @OtagoUniPress for her book 'My Body My Business: New Zealand Sex Workers in an Era of Change'. More here: scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1907/S…
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Announcing the 2019 winner of the Bert Roth Award for Labour History! Congrats to David Haines and Jonathan West, who have won with ‘Crew Cultures in the Tasman World’ @BWB_NZ. Full press release here: scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1907/S… 📚🏆
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this is white supremacy / this is the crown exerting its will / this is colonisation / kia kaha to all those on the site defending the land / to the capitalists to the colonial nation state to the disease of white supremacy / Ka whawhai tonu mātou, Ake! Ake! Ake!
BREAKING: A large number of police are preparing to evict people occupying the site of a disputed housing development in Auckland rnz.co.nz/news/national/3950…
Today's a big day for abortion rights in NZ - and the news might not come through before I go to sleep. Timezones can be the worst.
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Key to allowing @BhamUniUnison to continue their campaign and strike action is to materially support them. I have just donated to their strike fund.
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Total honour to be shortlisted for the Bert Roth award.
Announcing the 2019 Bert Roth Award for Labour History short list! The winner will be announced at the Labour History Project AGM on Tuesday 15 July, Wellington Museum. All welcome (event info here: facebook.com/events/13371105…) #labourhistory #nzhist
Congratulations!
Congratulations to David Haines & Jonathan West for receiving the Bert Roth Award for Labour History for their chapter 'Crew Cultures in the Tasman World', which appears in 'New Zealand and the Sea' edited by @FrancesMSteel
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