working class

Piston, Pen and Press

Economic and Social History, History | England, fiction, music, nineteenth century, non-fiction, Scotland, working class

Here you can search or browse our records of industrial workers and literary culture across Scotland and the North of England. We have entries for individuals, for literary works (many including transcriptions of poems, songs or prose extracts), and for associations that sponsored literary activities and were connected to industry.

Data type: audio, spatial, text, video

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Classics and Class in Britain, 1789-1917

Classical Reception, Classics | 17th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century, class, education, eighteenth century, England, Greek, Latin, nineteenth century, working class

Collection of encounters between consciousness of social class and Greek & Latin Classics

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Afterlives of Urban Muslim Asia: Muslim Perspectives on Non-Muslim Minorities in Aleppo, and Life Histories of Aleppine Armenians in Kuwait, 2022-2024

Cultural History, History | 21st-century, Christianity, ethnic minorities, ethnography, interviews, Islam, Middle East, war and conflict, working class

Questionnaires in Arabic were distributed electronically to Muslim residents and former residents of popular / working-class (sha‘bi) quarters of Aleppo through an Arab Muslim former resident of the Hilluk district of Aleppo who had migrated to Gaziantep during the Syrian civil war (2012-). Life history interviews were also conducted with prominent Aleppine Armenian members of the Armenian community in Kuwait: the priest of the Armenian church in Aleppo, and two leading Syrian Armenian merchants who run successful businesses in Kuwait and play a prominent role in the Armenian community there.

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Piston, Pen and Press

Classics and Class in Britain, 1789-1917

Afterlives of Urban Muslim Asia: Muslim Perspectives on Non-Muslim Minorities in Aleppo, and Life Histories of Aleppine Armenians in Kuwait, 2022-2024

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