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'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014 (2019)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (2020). 'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014. Urban History, 47(2), 292-310. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000555

The article proceeds from the observation that in the contemporary British cultural imagination, the figure of the coal miner tends to be presented as the embodiment of anti-urban and organicist qualities that in continental Europe are more commonly... Read More about 'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014.

‘Like being on death row’: Britain and the end of coal, c. 1970 to the present (2017)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (in press). ‘Like being on death row’: Britain and the end of coal, c. 1970 to the present. Contemporary British History, https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2017.1401476

ABSTRACT
The introduction draws on the work of Raymond Williams to identify the ‘structures of feeling’ that surround the figure of the coal miner in contemporary British culture. As an analysis of the media coverage of the closure of the UK’s last... Read More about ‘Like being on death row’: Britain and the end of coal, c. 1970 to the present.

"The death of sympathy." Coal mining, workplace hazards, and the politics of risk in Britain, ca. 1970-1990 (2016)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (2016). "The death of sympathy." Coal mining, workplace hazards, and the politics of risk in Britain, ca. 1970-1990. Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research / Zentrum fur Historische Sozialforschung, Koln in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften, Bonn, 41(1), 91-110. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.1.91-110

© GESIS. This article employs the concept of risk as a lens through which to explore discursive constructions of the nature of coal mining and coal miners in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on a diverse primary source base, ranging from songs... Read More about "The death of sympathy." Coal mining, workplace hazards, and the politics of risk in Britain, ca. 1970-1990.

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.