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Shared Experience Workshop and the Impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories Research Projects (2016)
Report
Allwork, L. Shared Experience Workshop and the Impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories Research Projects

On 19th September 2016, academic and community participants in research projects funded by the Centre for Hidden Histories convened for a ‘Shared Experience Workshop’ at Derby Riverside Centre. The day was organised by Impact Fellow, Dr Larissa Allwo... Read More about Shared Experience Workshop and the Impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories Research Projects.

Politics and the implementation of the New Poor Law: the Nottingham workhouse controversy, 1834-43 (2016)
Journal Article
Beckett, J. (in press). Politics and the implementation of the New Poor Law: the Nottingham workhouse controversy, 1834-43. Midland History, 41(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2016.1226361

The Nottingham workhouse case was a test of the resolve both of the Poor Law Commissioners appointed to administer the post-1834 New Poor Law, and of the strength of the Whig interest in the town’s municipal and parliamentary elections. All eyes were... Read More about Politics and the implementation of the New Poor Law: the Nottingham workhouse controversy, 1834-43.

Strategic Objective 11A. Assess the position of the Derwent Valley cotton industry in terms of the Empire, the slave trade and the pressures of global demand and supply͛ (2016)
Book Chapter
Seymour, S., & Haggerty, S. (2016). Strategic Objective 11A. Assess the position of the Derwent Valley cotton industry in terms of the Empire, the slave trade and the pressures of global demand and supply͛. In D. Knight (Ed.), The Derwent Valley: the valley that changed the world: Derwent Valley Mills world heritage site research framework (87). Derwent Valley Mills Partnership

Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort (2016)
Journal Article
Harvey, E. (2016). Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 26, 149-173. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440116000098

Foreign labour was an essential resource for the Nazi war economy: by September 1944, around six million civilian labourers from across Europe were working in the Reich. Any initial readiness on the part of the peoples of Nazi-occupied Europe to volu... Read More about Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort.

Autumn migration (2016)
Book Chapter
Lambert, R. A. (2016). Autumn migration. In M. Harrison (Ed.), Autumn: an anthology for the changing seasons. Elliott & Thompson Limited

Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte (2016)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (2016). Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 42(2), https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2016.42.2.266

This article traces the cyclical trajectory of the British coal miner from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Within less than one generation, the miner turned from doomed industrial proletarian to self-assured embodiment of the future back to doomed pr... Read More about Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte.