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With special thanks to Peter Tucker for his invaluable help and continued support.
Celebrated in photographs Contacts & Links
Nick Hedges has been a documentary photographer for nearly forty years. He has worked for Shelter, the housing campaign, for a variety of charities and pressure groups in the voluntary sector and, independently, producing books and exhibitions about urban life in the UK. He can be contacted at: nick.hedges@btinternet.com
Black Country born and bred, Alan Hughes is a graphic designer/illustrator with Oxford-based magazine, New Internationalist. In 1983 he gained a BA in Visual Communications. Prior to that he had been (for 15 years)
a sheetmetal worker at British Federal Welder, Dudley,
West Midlands. He can be contacted at: alanhughes_ox@hotmail.com
The Working Class Movement Library (WCML) is a collection
of English language books, periodicals, pamphlets, archives and artefacts, concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labour movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late 1700s.
The Working Lives Research Institute is a new centre for research and teaching, based at the London Metropolitan University. The Institute undertakes socially committed academic and applied research into all aspects of working lives, emphasising equality and social justice, and working for and in partnership with trade unions.
Founded in 1983, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television has become the most visited museum outside London, attracting approximately 750,000 visitors each year. The museum invites everyone to explore the media, the world it presents and to think again!
http://johndoxey.100freemb.com/Silverwood/
A personal tribute to the miners of Silverwood Mine, Yorkshire, from a period when coal was king. The site is not just a history of Silverwood but a study of the proud men and women who worked there.
The Union Makes US Strong: TUC History Online is a partnership initiative between London Metropolitan University and the Trades Union Congress. Trade unions have played, and continue to play, a decisive role in shaping economic and social developments in Britain. The images on this site provide a dynamic new resource connecting with the working lives of our predecessors, helping to analyse historical developments and to build for the future.
http://www.madeinbirmingham.org
Made in Birmingham is Birmingham's industrial history website. Amongst many other things the site is looking for any factory, office or service worker/s who worked in any of Birmingham's industries to tell their story and publish their photographs. The site has received over 100,000 visitors since inception in March 2005.
