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‘The Miners’ Strike in County Durham: A Family and Community Conversation’ Professor Robert Gildea in conversation with David Wray
24 May 2022 - 24 May 2022
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Durham Town Hall and Online via Zoom
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Free
Although the Miners’ Strike took place nearly forty years ago, the families and communities that experienced it in County Durham still have vivid memories of that year and have had to wrestle in their lives with the destruction of an industry.
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Photo credit: Kath Connolly
This event features historian Robert Gildea, who is writing an oral history of the strike, in conversation with one of the families he interviewed. David Wray was an electrician at Sacriston during the strike. He and his wife Dorothy ran a soup kitchen in Leadgate and their daughter Sam, a teenager at the time, enjoyed the visits of musicians who helped to raise funds for striking families. They will be joined by Sam’s daughter, Caitlin, now a student at Newcastle University, who speaks for a third generation that has been shaped by the strike.
Following a conversation with the family the floor with be open to members of the audience who would like to share their own memories of the strike and its legacy.
This is a hybrid event with online and in person tickets available
Registration details: click here to register for a ticket to attend in person, or click here to register to attend online via Zoom
Speakers
Professor Robert Gildea
Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford
Robert Gildea is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present (2019), and he has published many books on modern European and transnational history, especially on the Second World War and Europe’s 1968. His work has been awarded the Wolfson Prize for History.