All Outputs (30)

Peer-mentoring in a pandemic: an evaluation of a series of new departmental peer-mentor schemes created to support student belonging and transition during COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Bruce, M., Gangoli, G., Mates, L., Millican, A. S., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2023). Peer-mentoring in a pandemic: an evaluation of a series of new departmental peer-mentor schemes created to support student belonging and transition during COVID-19. Student engagement in higher education journal, 5(1), 61-82

The rapid move to predominately online learning engendered by the COVID-19 crisis created an urgent need to rethink support mechanisms central to student engagement and transition, namely community-building and identity within the institution. One im... Read More about Peer-mentoring in a pandemic: an evaluation of a series of new departmental peer-mentor schemes created to support student belonging and transition during COVID-19.

The “most revolutionary” banner in British trade union history? Political identities and the birth, life, purgatory, and rebirth of the “red” Follonsby miners’ banner (2021)
Journal Article
Mates, L. (2021). The “most revolutionary” banner in British trade union history? Political identities and the birth, life, purgatory, and rebirth of the “red” Follonsby miners’ banner. International Labor and Working-Class History, 100, 109-135. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0147547921000107

The history and iconography of trade union banners has been surprisingly under-explored since it was first taken seriously as a subject of study in the early 1970s. The nostalgia evident in these early accounts for an age that seemed to contemporarie... Read More about The “most revolutionary” banner in British trade union history? Political identities and the birth, life, purgatory, and rebirth of the “red” Follonsby miners’ banner.

Coping with Covid; Understanding and Mitigating Disadvantages Experienced by First Generation Scholars Studying Online (2021)
Journal Article
Mates, L., Millican, A., & Hanson, E. (2022). Coping with Covid; Understanding and Mitigating Disadvantages Experienced by First Generation Scholars Studying Online. British Journal of Educational Studies, 70(4), 501-522. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2021.1966382

This article examines the implications of the transition to online or blended learning for first generation scholars (FGS) brought about by Covid-19. We present the findings of a mixed methods project that draws data from both in-depth qualitative in... Read More about Coping with Covid; Understanding and Mitigating Disadvantages Experienced by First Generation Scholars Studying Online.

‘It’s part of our community, where we live’: Urban heritage and children’s sense of place (2021)
Journal Article
Grimshaw, L., & Mates, L. (2022). ‘It’s part of our community, where we live’: Urban heritage and children’s sense of place. Urban Studies, 59(7), 1334-1352. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980211019597

The literature on a ‘sense of place’ often sidelines the voices of children. Consequently, little is known about how children can be encouraged to develop a sense of place. This matters because a sense of place involves feelings of belonging and atta... Read More about ‘It’s part of our community, where we live’: Urban heritage and children’s sense of place.

Using Trade Union Banners for Education: The Case of the 1938 ‘Red’ Follonsby Miners’ Banner (2021)
Journal Article
Mates, L., & Grimshaw, L. (2021). Using Trade Union Banners for Education: The Case of the 1938 ‘Red’ Follonsby Miners’ Banner. Labour History Review, 86(2), 215-248. https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2021.10

This article considers the use of trade union banners as tools for mainstream education in the context of the recent reclamation, recuperation, and rearticulation of industrial heritage taking place in localities in the former Durham coalfield, north... Read More about Using Trade Union Banners for Education: The Case of the 1938 ‘Red’ Follonsby Miners’ Banner.

‘Making Heritage Matter’? Teaching local mining history in primary schools (2020)
Journal Article
Grimshaw, L., & Mates, L. (2022). ‘Making Heritage Matter’? Teaching local mining history in primary schools. Education 3-13, 50(1), 25-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2020.1825509

This article presents the findings of research into the teaching of local industrial history in a socially deprived primary school in post-industrial north-east England. The first of the article’s three substantive sections sets out the methodology a... Read More about ‘Making Heritage Matter’? Teaching local mining history in primary schools.

Bolton, Henry (2018)
Book Chapter
Mates, L. (2018). Bolton, Henry. In Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume XIV. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45743-1

The struggle for control of the Durham Miners' Association, 1890s-1915 (2018)
Book Chapter
Mates, L. (2018). The struggle for control of the Durham Miners' Association, 1890s-1915. In E. Avril, & Y. Béliard (Eds.), Labour united and divided from the 1830s to the present. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526126320.001.0001

This chapter addresses the complex interplay of disunities on three main levels; intra-organisational, inter-organisational and between labour organisations and spontaneous working-class protests. It does so by examining the struggle for control of t... Read More about The struggle for control of the Durham Miners' Association, 1890s-1915.

The challenges and contradictions of state-funded community organizing (2018)
Journal Article
Grimshaw, L., Mates, L., & Reynolds, A. (2020). The challenges and contradictions of state-funded community organizing. Community Development Journal, 55(2), 313-330. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsy040

The UK coalition government introduced the Community Organisers Programme in 2010, providing state funding to train community organizers in England for the first time. This article presents a case study in the north of England, exploring the implemen... Read More about The challenges and contradictions of state-funded community organizing.

Ideology, Institutions and Causes: the Committed Activist Life of a Durham miner (2017)
Journal Article
Mates, L. (2017). Ideology, Institutions and Causes: the Committed Activist Life of a Durham miner. Revue française de civilisation britannique (En ligne), 22(3), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.1552

Drawing inspiration from Kevin Morgan’s recent study of trade unionist A.A. Purcell, this article analyses the activist commitment of Durham miner Henry Bolton; his changing ideology, and how this informed his political interventions in numerous cont... Read More about Ideology, Institutions and Causes: the Committed Activist Life of a Durham miner.

The Great Labour Unrest; rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield (2016)
Book
Mates, L. (2016). The Great Labour Unrest; rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield. Manchester University Press

Syndicalism and the ‘transnational turn’ (2016)
Journal Article
Mates, L. (2016). Syndicalism and the ‘transnational turn’. Capital & Class, 40(2), 347-357. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816816661148

‘Rank-and-file movements and Political change before the Great War; the Durham miners’ “Forward Movement” (2014)
Journal Article
Mates, L. (2014). ‘Rank-and-file movements and Political change before the Great War; the Durham miners’ “Forward Movement”. Historical Research, 87(236), 316-343. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12040

This article examines political change in the Durham Miners' Association (D.M.A.), one of the best-established, largest and most influential Edwardian trade unions. It argues that the hitherto ignored rank-and-file movements (especially the Durham Fo... Read More about ‘Rank-and-file movements and Political change before the Great War; the Durham miners’ “Forward Movement”.

‘Seven Shillings is Not Exactly the Millennium’: Economic Liberalism and the Campaign for a Miners' Minimum Wage in the Durham Coalfield to 1914 (2013)
Journal Article
Mates, L. (2013). ‘Seven Shillings is Not Exactly the Millennium’: Economic Liberalism and the Campaign for a Miners' Minimum Wage in the Durham Coalfield to 1914. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 34(1), 49-81. https://doi.org/10.3828/hsir.2013.34.3

The Durham Miners’ Association (DMA) was one of the best established, wealthiest and largest trade unions in Britain. Yet economic liberalism, specifically that miners’ wages had to be determined by coal prices, dominated the thinking of the DMA’s le... Read More about ‘Seven Shillings is Not Exactly the Millennium’: Economic Liberalism and the Campaign for a Miners' Minimum Wage in the Durham Coalfield to 1914.

Grassroots Conservatism in Post-War Britain: A view from the bottom up (2013)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., & Mates, L. (2013). Grassroots Conservatism in Post-War Britain: A view from the bottom up. History, 98(330), 202-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.12004

It is well known the membership of British Conservative Party in the 1950s dwarfed that of other parties, but despite this there has been very little examination of the party's grassroots in this crucial period. What literature there is comes predomi... Read More about Grassroots Conservatism in Post-War Britain: A view from the bottom up.

The Limits and Potential of Syndicalist Influence in the Durham Coalfield before the Great War (2013)
Journal Article
Mates, L. (2013). The Limits and Potential of Syndicalist Influence in the Durham Coalfield before the Great War. Labor History, 54(1), 42-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656x.2012.759808

For the first two decades of the twentieth century, syndicalism (revolutionary trade unionism) was the most vigorous of the left's challenges to the capitalist order in many parts of the world. In Britain, syndicalism was reckoned to have had most im... Read More about The Limits and Potential of Syndicalist Influence in the Durham Coalfield before the Great War.

The Syndicalist Challenge in the Durham coalfield before 1914 (2012)
Book Chapter
Mates, L. (2012). The Syndicalist Challenge in the Durham coalfield before 1914. In D. Berry, R. Kinna, S. Pinta, & A. Prichard (Eds.), Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red (57-77). Palgrave Macmillan

Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain (2012)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., Mates, L., & Flinn, A. (2012). Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 43(2), 247-274. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_00381

Capture-recapture methods are of general interest because they can be applied to conventional historical sources to address otherwise intractable questions about the size and dynamics of historical populations. When employed to assess alternative exp... Read More about Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain.

Radical Cultures and Local Identities: the North-east Labour Movement’s Response to the Spanish Civil War (2010)
Book Chapter
Mates, L. (2010). Radical Cultures and Local Identities: the North-east Labour Movement’s Response to the Spanish Civil War. In K. Cowman, & I. Packer (Eds.), Radical Cultures and Local Identities (213-231). Cambridge Scholars

Charles Wilson, the Pitman's Poet (2010)
Book Chapter
Mates, L. (2010). Charles Wilson, the Pitman's Poet. In K. Gildart, & D. Howell (Eds.), Dictionary of Labour Biography Vol.XIII. Palgrave Macmillan