Gedling Windrush 2025: Skin & Coal + Q&A: Narratives and lived experiences, a documentary told by Black British mineworkers of 1980s working-class Britain
A documentary film exploring the narratives and lived experiences of former coalminers from Nottingham, Doncaster and Leeds. These pioneering industrial labourers, families and communities of the East Midlands and the North, offer anecdotes, testimonies, oral histories and cultural memory through their collective experiences, involved in what was once, one of the most dangerous jobs and industries in the world – then and still today. The event will be hosted by local historian, Dr Norma Gregory (https://www.normagregory.com).
After the screening, there will be Q & A session with special guests, a networking session, a chance to view the nationally acclaimed, Digging Deep Black Mineworkers’ Heritage Exhibition and space for people wanting to find out more about working in heritage sector and the heritage arts within the Borough of Gedling, Nottinghamshire and beyond. First 50 attendees receive a free Windrush Industrial heritage poster.
Produced and directed by Claudine Boothe and made by Social Film and Video LTD, from Concord Media.
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