Partner or Pariah? – Academic attitudes to history work by mill hands at Cooleemee, North Carolina

Research by the author into the use of museums to restore community identity after industrial decline suggested working-class people’s use of history was profound and far-reaching. It also showed that the working classes might be at risk of exclusion from this opportunity to regain identity, because...

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Main Author: Tamasin Wedgwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2009-11-01
Series:Museum & Society
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/139