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What does taking part mean?
If you agree to take part in the project, we will conduct an oral history interview discussing your memories, thoughts and feelings about your past experiences. Each interview will be between 1 and 3 hours (usually around 2 hours). A member of the project team - Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Dr Natalie Thomlinson, or Dr Victoria Dawson - will conduct the interview and will record it.
In the interview, we will ask you about your life, from childhood to the present. We will pay particular attention to your memories of the 1984-5 strike but we will talk about your life as a whole.
We will arrange to conduct the interview at a place and time that is suitable and convenient to you, often in your own home, or in a nearby space like a community centre or cafe.
What happens to the interviews?
If you agree to take part, after the interview we will ask you to sign a form giving us permission to use your interview in our research. We will also ask for permission to use it in other ways - for example, in our exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum for England. You do not have to give your permission, though, and we will only use your interview in ways you have specifically given us permission to.
After the interview we will make a summary. You will receive a copy of the summary and we can also send you a copy of the interview if you wish. We will use the interviews in our research, and aim to write a book and several articles about women's experiences during the strike.
After the project all the interviews (where participants have given permission) will be held at the National Coal Mining Museum for England, in their archive, for future researchers to use.
Further information
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