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...courses In December 1981, the Plessey Company announced plans to shut down their Capacitors plant in Bathgate. The factory – which employed predominantly women assembly workers – had been downsized substantially throughout the 1970s. Despite this, the decision to cease operations completely stunned the remaining workers. In the weeks following this announcement the...

...course, much remains to be done in the period ahead. This is only a first step. But it will lead to many other debates. It is those who do not fear change to whom the future belongs. Simon Usherwood, senior lecturer in politics, University of Surrey The UK is far from alone in harbouring people who want to change the direction and nature of the EU. Populists across the...

...course she was a Lady. Laurie Taylor: Not a working class gardener? Margaret Willes: No she was gentry; but I think she represents – she wasn’t the only person who dispensed medicines, although she did it on quite a large scale to her tenants but I’m sure that the housewives were doing the same. Laurie Taylor: I want to turn now – and this is something you talked...

...courses. Background 2020 and 2021 have been described as years like no other; “unprecedented times” was a phrase often used as a way of capturing the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But for railway workers working life carried on as normal in so far as they all booked on for duty, facing the public on a daily basis and carrying out their usual duties, alongside...