Grace Millar

Biographic Data

ID4212469
NAMEGrace Millar
GIVEN NAMESGrace
FAMILY NAMEMillar
SIGNATUREMILLAR G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wolverhampton
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Relics of the past and symbols of modernity: The cultural practices of coal mining communities in post-war Britain

    Open AccessKeith Gildart, Andrew Perchard et al.ARTICLESocial History2026

    This article challenges popular representations of post-war British coal mining communities. Such localities are often imagined as displaying cultural practices belonging to a previous age that were subsequently fragmented by the economic and social changes of the 1980s. Such images and tropes have been further reinforced by the somewhat heroic construction of miners as archetypal proletarians in the strike of 1984–85, and through films such as B…

  • Fighting for the soul of coal: Colliery closures and the moral economy of nationalization in Britain, 1947–1994

    Open AccessAndrew Perchard, Keith Gildart et al.ARTICLEEnterprise & Society2024Cited by: 1References: 21

    In this article, we explore the impact of colliery closure programs across the nationalized British coal industry. We chart the regional disparities in these and the mobilization of community opposition to national protests, leading to the national miners’ strikes of 1972, 1974, and 1984–5. This article demonstrates how closures have changed the industrial politics of mining unions for miners, junior officials, and managers and have increasingly …

  • Be a Miner”: Constructions and Contestations of Masculinity in the British Coalfields, 1975–1983

    Open AccessKeith Gildart, Ben Curtis et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Social…2024Cited by: 4

    In 1975, the National Coal Board (NCB) produced a short film, “People Will Always Need Coal”, to encourage recruitment into mining. It was extraordinarily attention-grabbing, presenting miners as cosmopolitan playboys. It defined the industry in hyper-masculine terms, encouraging would-be recruits to “be a miner”. This article uses the film as a starting point for a discussion of the complex interactions between the material realities of masculin…

  • Women, Workplace Protest and Political Identity in England, 1968–85 . By Jonathan Moss

    Open AccessGrace MillarARTICLETwentieth Century British History2021

  • This isNot Charity: The Masculine Work of Strike Relief

    Grace MillarARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2016

    On March 14 1951, the relief committee of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ union voted to exclude women from the union’s relief depot. This article examines the decisions of the Auckland relief committee during a lock-out that lasted from January to June 1951. The men organizing relief understood the relationship between class, gender and welfare perpetuated by mainstream welfare organizations and they were determined not…

  • We Never Recovered: The Social Cost of the 1951 New Zealand Waterfront Dispute

    Open AccessGrace Millar, Grace Millar Grace MillarARTICLELabour History2015

    In July 1951, 15,000 New Zealand watersiders, miners, freezing-workers and seamen returned to work after being locked-out or on strike, but their lives, and the lives of those dependent on their income, did not return to normal. For five months, most workers and their families had had to borrow money and leave bills unpaid in order to survive, and they needed to pay their debts. This article examines the social cost of the 1951 waterfront dispute…