Georgia Newmarch

My dissertation focuses on coal culture in Britain between 1947 and 1974. Looking at the formation of ideology and perceptions of power in the post-war period, the first half of the thesis focuses on film and public information surrounding coal. The second half looks at the overlooked Miner's Strike of 1972 and the the innovatory mechanism employed by the National Union of Mineworkers, the 'flying picket'. The dissertation begins to explore how we can consider industrial action as 'design', and is experimental in its approach. I view networks and circuits in tandem with each other, as I attempt to find a way of linguistically describing such processes and cultures. It demonstrates how within the discourse of design history, events – in this case political ones such as strikes – are not merely cultural contexts.