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Over the kitchen table: British storytelling as working-class art, belonging and resistance

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Abstract

This article introduces a contemporary art and storytelling project that took place in January 2024 in Bestwood Village, an ex-coal community, showing a televised play filmed in the village (1963) written by Dennis Potter, Stand Up, Nigel Barton, about the son of a coal miner gaining a place at Oxford University during this period of social change. The project and the article show that the art of working-class storytelling is both political and personal, and despite the lack of working-class voices in the arts, in the culture industries and in academia, small storytelling events such as this one play an important part in strengthening working-class communities.

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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
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Original language

English

Article number

4

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 111-119

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Journal of Class & Culture (Volume 3, Issue 2)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 18/07/2024
  • Published - 18/12/2024

Publication status

Published - 18/12/2024

ISSN

2634-1123

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  • handle.net: 10547/626522

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