Interview with George Bolton and David Carruthers

• Reference:GB 249 SOHC 6/8
• Dates of Creation:12 January 2005
• Name of Creator:
  Young, Hilary, b. 1979, oral historian, researcher, digital curator
  Rafeek, Neil Christopher, 1960-2006, oral historian, socialist
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 compact cassette + 1 MP3 file + 1 MS Word file

• Scope and Content

  Neil Rafeek and Hilary Young in conversation with Clackmannanshire miners George Bolton and David Carruthers, Culross, Fife, 12 January 2005.
  - sound recording (1 hour 18 minutes 22 seconds) and transcript
  Interview C23.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Dr Young studied history at the University of Strathclyde (BA, 2001). During 2005 she contributed to the oral history project 'Coal miners and dust-related disease', assisting in the interviewing and transcription process. She completed a PhD on 'Representation and reception: an oral history of gender in British children's story papers, comics and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s' (2006, University of Strathclyde).
  As of 2017, she is a research associate at the University of Glasgow.

  Neil Rafeek was born in London, the middle of three brothers. His father Taureq Rafeek was a town planner and the family regularly moved with his work. From London they moved to Bristol, then Edinburgh (where Neil attended primary school), then Sunderland. Neil Rafeek's experience at secondary school there prevented him from successfully completing his early education. Leaving with just one O-level, he entered the building trade to train as a bricklayer. Subsequently he enrolled at the University of Strathclyde as a mature student and went on to do a PhD on women in the Communist party in Scotland 1920-1991 (1998). It was the first oral history based PhD awarded in the Department of History. Rafeek actively helped to build, manage and run the Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC) at Strathclyde.

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• Note

  Dr Young studied history at the University of Strathclyde (BA, 2001). During 2005 she contributed to the oral history project 'Coal miners and dust-related disease', assisting in the interviewing and transcription process. She completed a PhD on 'Representation and reception: an oral history of gender in British children's story papers, comics and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s' (2006, University of Strathclyde).
  As of 2017, she is a research associate at the University of Glasgow.

  Neil Rafeek was born in London, the middle of three brothers. His father Taureq Rafeek was a town planner and the family regularly moved with his work. From London they moved to Bristol, then Edinburgh (where Neil attended primary school), then Sunderland. Neil Rafeek's experience at secondary school there prevented him from successfully completing his early education. Leaving with just one O-level, he entered the building trade to train as a bricklayer. Subsequently he enrolled at the University of Strathclyde as a mature student and went on to do a PhD on women in the Communist party in Scotland 1920-1991 (1998). It was the first oral history based PhD awarded in the Department of History. Rafeek actively helped to build, manage and run the Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC) at Strathclyde.

• Archivist's Note

  Created by Anna-K Mayer, 27 January 2017

  Names revealed in appendix of McIvor & Johnston 2007, according to which all of the interviews in that project were "archived for public access in the Scottish Oral History Centre [etc]"/akm February 2017

• Additional Information

  published