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Oral history

  • Exeter elections in the 1990s: Witness Seminar

    Emma Peplow

    On 27 October we held our first ‘witness seminar’ at the Devon Heritage Centre as part of From the Grassroots: an oral history of community politics in Devon. The aim of a witness seminar is to bring together a small…

  • The Miners’ Strike: 30 years on

    Emma Peplow

    Thirty years ago this month the miners’ strike began. One of the defining moments of modern British history and Margaret Thatcher’s government, in March 1984 Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers out on strike in protest against proposed…