Participants
Organiser: Dr Mark Pendleton (The University of Sheffield)
Co-organisers: Professor Naoko Shimazaki (Waseda University); Professor Keith Gildart (Wolverhampton University)
From the UK:
- Professor Andrew Perchard (Wolverhampton)
- Dr Grace Millar (Wolverhampton)
- Dr Ben Curtis (Wolverhampton)
- Mr Paul Darlow (National Union of Mineworkers)
- Mr Shaun McLoughlin (National Mining Museum England)
- Ms Edda Nicolson (General Federation of Trade Unions/Wolverhampton)
From Japan:
- Professor Hideo Nakazawa (Chūō)
- Professor Tomoki Shimanishi (Tōyō)
- Professor Makoto Nishikido (Hōsei)
- Associate Professor Kei Shindo (Gunma)
- Associate Professor Shisei Kimura (Kōnan Women’s University)
- Mr Taku Shimizu (Waseda)
- Mr Hiroshi Fukumoto (Tagawa Coal History Museum)
- Ms Miyuki Kikuchi (Kyushu)
- Mr Ryota Kasahara (Waseda)
- Mr Longlong Zhang (Waseda)
Programme:
Thursday, 11 July
Welcome and introductions
- Mark Pendleton: “Marie Stopes’s coal balls: alternative approaches to histories of coal mining between the UK and Japan”
- short introduction by all 19 participants
Industry evolution and management
- Tomoki Shimanishi: Debates around nationalization and organization of the industry in Japan
- Andrew Perchard: ‘High custodians of the public interest’: The Mine Management Professions in the Nationalised British Coal Industry
Trade Unions, Organising and Social movements
- Hideo Nakazawa: "The Unmaking of Japanese Working Class: Compressed Rise and Decline of Miners' Union, 1902-2004"
- Keith Gildart: “Mining, memories and heritage in the Lancashire and North Wales coalfields”
- Makoto Nishikido: “The Activities and Accomplishments of Miners’ Wives Movements in Hokkaido, Japan”
Community, Mobility and Class in Mining Communities
- Naoko Shimazaki: “Miners' families and mobility during Japan's postwar highgrowth era”
- Grace Millar: “Collective leisure in coalfield communities”
- Ben Curtis: “Our Tower: An Oral History of Life and Work at Tower Colliery, 1947–1995”
Friday, 12 July (site visits)
Morning: National Union of Mineworkers archive, Barnsley
Afternoon: National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield
Saturday, 13 July
Durham Miner’s Gala
Funded by an ESRC/AHRC SSH International Networking Grant