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‘Narrating the Past’: PostgraduateExperiences of Oral History 

12th June 2015Scottish Oral History Centre

Curran Building Level 6University of Strathclyde

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Programme

9.00-9.25  REGISTRATION AND WELCOME 

9.30-11.00 Youth, Sexuality and Community Arts in Post-War Scotland Chair: Professor Arthur McIvor

Jane O’Neil  (University of Edinburgh)  –  ‘Narratives of Social Change: Time

Contexts in Oral History Interviews’ 

Charlie Lynch (University of Glasgow) – ‘Sex and the University’ 

Lucy Brown (University of Strathclyde)  –  ‘Narrating Communities: The

Community Arts Movement in Scotland c.1960-1990’ 

11.00-11.30  TEA AND COFFEE 

11.30-1.00  The Family and SocietyChair: Dr Linsey Robb

 Aimee McCullough (University of Edinburgh)  –  ‘“Typical of his Generation”:

Fatherhood, Masculinity and Generational Change in Late

Twentieth Century Scotland’ 

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 Andy Clark (University of Strathclyde)  –  ‘Narratives of family life, tradeunionism and deindustrialisation in West-Central Scotland’ 

Helen Young (University of Stirling)  –  ‘“You could just pick and choose”: the

remembered past of rural teaching in Scotland’ 

1.00-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-3.30 Trade Unionism and Deindustrialisation in Scotland Chair: Dr David Walker

David Evans (University of Strathclyde)  –  ‘Breakaway Unions in a Neoliberal Age’

Martin Conlon (University of Strathclyde) –  ‘In Search of the last Giants: usingoral history to illuminate industrial detritus’ 

Ewan Gibbs (University of Glasgow)  –  ‘National Overdermination?:

Reflections on undertaking Coalfield Oral History Research

during the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum’ 

3.30-4.00 TEA AND COFFEE

4.00-5.30  Gender and Fiction Chair: Professor Phil Cooke 

Jan Brownfoot (University of Strathclyde)  –  ‘The Missy and the Memsahib -

narrating memories of Malaya to a “modern miss”’ 

Helen Foster (University of Strathclyde) – ‘Shut Away and Never Listened To:

From Oral History into Fiction’ 

Margaret Richie (University of Strathclyde) – ‘Fisherrow Fishwives – Talking, not

Screaming’ 

17:30 Closing Remarks