Media Interest

Black miners heritage is now featured in the following TV broadcast programmes, short films/videos, print publications, books, radio, podcast broadcasts, online & print articles, blogs and vlogs:

Thank you to all our media partnerships, contributors, volunteers and the public.

TV BROADCASTS
  1. Wales’ Black Miners, ​​​​​co-production in collaboration with BBC Wales & Cardiff Productions, October 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000n9rx/wales-black-miners
  2. BBC Bargain Hunt Nottingham 13, series 50, 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b99x4b
  3. BBC Inside Out East Midlands, ‘Brothers Beneath the Surface’ news feature, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOHHcTgzs5E
  4. BBC Class Clips KS2 – Mac Williams, working in the coal mining industry 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-black-british-stories-mac-williams/zng3f82
  5. BBC Teach Black History Stories, featured in BBC Bitesize Learning Zone: Storytelling, in collaboration with CTVC Productions 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vsk0/episodes/guide and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09cvyfj
  6. Channel 4 News ‘Windrush Miners Hold Reunion’ 2018 https://www.channel4.com/news/windrush-miners-hold-reunion
  7. ITV Tyne Tees, October 2020 https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2020-10-06/new-exhibition-running-during-black-history-month-at-woodhorn-museum-to-celebrate-black-and-african-caribbean-miners
  8. ITV Look North, October 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xys1sLGt5Cg&feature=youtu.be
  9. BBC Wales News article October 2020
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54390217
  10. ITV Calendar (Yorkshire TV) news, 15th October 2019
    https://youtu.be/iW5vd_8yCYs
  11. NOTTS TV 2019
    https://nottstv.com/programme/ey-up-notts-wednesday-2nd-october/
  12. Sharuna Sagar TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xys1sLGt5Cg
  13. ITV Calendar, news feature, Windrush Generation Remembered, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 22 June 2021 https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2021-06-22/event-celebrates-contribution-of-the-windrush-generation-to-south-yorkshire
SHORT FILM / VIDEO
  1. Woodhorn Mining Museum https://vimeo.com/468200112
  2. Kirklees TV, Digging Deep Exhibition https://youtu.be/sgC_MFy2XsQ
  3. Kirklees TV, Jamaica high Commission for the UK visits Digging Deep Exhibition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRfoE4nNHnc&t=17s
  4. Norma Gregory , Digging Deep Exhibition promotional video/vlog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZl9b7iIJHI
  5. National Coal Mining Museum ( archive collections) https://www.ncm.org.uk
  6. Digging Deep documentary (59 mins) by Nottingham News Centre (2018)
  7. Skin & Coal documentary by Claudine Booth (52 mins, 1986/7)) Concord Media
  8. BLACK MINERS MUSEUM Black Miners Heritage Representations in Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLxhFRe89Zs&t=15s
  9. BLACK MINERS MUSEUM ‘Mining Migration’ Black miner stained glass window making with Stella Chadwick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1kW-RfZ6_k&t=1s
  10. BLACK MINERS MUSEUM Coal Mining History, Diverse Narratives & Perspectives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBoDMcDPiv0&t=4s
  11. BLACK MINERS MUSEUM Diverse Heritage and the Community https://youtu.be/hl8O939jtSA
ARTICLES (PRINT & ONLINE)
  1. The Guardian newspaper, article ‘Ten black history events that should be taught to every pupil’, 11th October 2020. See no.7, Britain’s black miners https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/11/black-history-month-events-that-should-be-taught-to-every-pupil
  2. Runnymede Trust https://www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/black-british-coal-miners-significance-and-sacrifice-remembered
  3. The lost story of Britain’s Black miners by Belinda Liversedge with interview contributions https://www.britsafe.org/publications/safety-management-magazine/safety-management-magazine/2021/the-lost-story-of-britain-s-black-miners/
  4. Nottingham Post Live, article by Keimae Blake, 6th October 2021 https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/meet-nottingham-born-author-broadcaster-6018534
  5. BBC News article, Digging Deep documentary screening October 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-54543640?fbclid=IwAR1CmjZx3X-fBlKj6AqhlaJF7P2pksohkET-uMRx2tjJTwt0zVCb-H9cdco
  6. Historic England https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in-your-area/midlands/black-history-month-part-2/
  7. The Voice Newspaper https://www.voice-online.co.uk/entertainment/arts-culture/2019/09/28/digging-deep-miners-of-african-caribbean-heritage/
  8. The Voice Newspaper http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/untold-story-britains-black-miners
  9. Nottingham Post Live https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/what-life-like-working-decades-4585846
  10. ChronicleLive News, North of England East
    https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/andy-coles-dad-black-miners-19143172
  11. Black History Month listing https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/listings/region/yorkshire/digging-deep-miners-of-african-caribbean-heritage/
  12. The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining https://www.iom3.org/materials-world-magazine/news/2019/oct/29/digging-deep-black-miners-museum-project
  13. MEDIUM online magazine https://medium.com/@ncb1947/black-history-in-the-coalfields-2ee6f61e15f1
  14. EDITION online magazine, London https://editionbhm.com/2019/10/31/black-coal-miners-a-tribute-to-a-hidden-past/
  15. LEFTLION newspaper, p.27 #119 November 2019 https://www.leftlion.co.uk/media/4876691/leftlion-issue-119-web.pdf
  16. LEFTLION newspaper online https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2019/november/norma-gregory-black-miners-history-exhibition/
  17. Toronto Caribbean magazine (print and online versions) https://torontocaribbean.com/digging-deeper-with-norma-gregory/
  18. Sandford Cascade NLHF Project
    https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?e=&u=bfafc3241675b7d2093286ed9&id=e87b0f4a57
  19. North East Bylines, Julia Mazza (writer) https://northeastbylines.co.uk/the-lost-story-of-the-caribbean-miners/
  20. Nottingham Post, stain glass window article https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/artist-creates-stained-glass-window-4664989
  21. BBC article, ‘Nottingham Black Miners History project launched’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-37298751
  22. NOTTS TV https://nottstv.com/inside-pit-nations-untold-story-black-miners-nottinghamshire/
  23. FRIEZE Contemporary Art and Culture magazine, No. 217 March 2021, p. 61 https://shopcc.frieze.com/collections/back-issues/products/current-issue-march-2021-issue-217
NEW BOOKS (Contributions to)
  1. Jamaicans in Nottingham, Narratives and Reflections by Norma Gregory ( Hansib Publications, 2015)
  2. Banners and Beyond: People, Parades and Protest in the Nottinghamshire Coalfield by Dr David Amos and Paul Fillingham. Edited by Gilbert Fillingham Thinkamigo Edition (2021)

  3. Narratives from Beyond the UK Reggae Bassline: The System is Sound (Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music) by by William ‘Lez’ Henry (Editor), Matthew Worley (Editor), 2020
  4. The Life of William Chong, A Windrush Passenger by Bishop James Stapleton OBE and Esther Stapleton-Stone (2021)
  5. David Amos, & Natalie Braber, Coal Mining in the East Midlands, pp112 & p.117, (2017)
  6. Hoxton Mini Press & British Journal of Photography Portraits of Britain, pp124-125, (2018)
  7. Paul Sng, Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience (2018)
  8. Arthur Cole, An Industry Now Lost: the Pride, Passion and Pain of Mining, p.60 (2018)
  9. The https://www.ohs.org.uk/journal/ Oral History Society Journal: Vol.44, p.7, Autumn (2016)
  10. The Oral History Society Journal Vol.46, p.5 Spring (2018)
  11. Coal in the Blood, an East Midlands Coal Mining Anthology, Five Leaves Publications (2021), p136-138
RADIO & PODCASTS
  1. Norma Gregory /Digging Deep project contributed to podcasts leading to the production of: Historic England Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places, 100 Places – Power, Protest & Progress (2018)
  2. BBC Leeds Radio, the Richard Stead Breakfast Show, 7th October 2019 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07nw0vr
  3. Community Conversations, City Arts Nottingham. A project led by Sasizo Phiri and Rachel Wilson Imogen Wilcocks https://open.spotify.com/show/7FuzShUr0PIzWoH02RoLBH?go=1&utm_source=embed_v3&si=hGVsI3M0QEGIp5lJxhjokg&t=0&nd=1
DIGGING DEEP is featured in the following broadcast media:
The Digging Deep HLF project has been of significant interest to the community as well as local and national broadcasters and media production organisations.
We wish to express sincere thanks for their valuable support, through various and unique print, radio, online and TV broadcast media productions.

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https://www.channel4.com/news/windrush-miners-hold-reunion

https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10155887355091939/?q=channel%204%20news%20miners

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/24/black-miners-britain-nottingham

https://medium.com/@ncb1947/black-history-in-the-coalfields-2ee6f61e15f1

https://www.leftlion.co.uk/media/4876691/leftlion-issue-119-web.pdf

Black Coal Miners – A Tribute to a Hidden Past

https://www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/black-british-coal-miners-significance-and-sacrifice-remembered

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b99x4b BBC Bargain Hunt, episode 50 Nottingham 13

https://historicengland.org.uk/get-involved/100-places/protest-power/peterloo-cable-street-and-olaudah-equiano/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-43111730

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/black-miners-unite

https://www.voice-online.co.uk/entertainment/arts-culture/2019/09/28/digging-deep-miners-of-african-caribbean-heritage/

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/untold-story-britains-black-miners

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/nottingham-project-highlights-history-black-miners

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-37298751

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b99x4b

https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/life-changing/project-digging-deep?icid=lich-212:bd:22:ist-ts:tnl:lich-prdide-735:in:co

https://nottstv.com/inside-pit-nations-untold-story-black-miners-nottinghamshire/

Notts TV Gedling Colliery 25th anniversary pit closure https://vimeo.com/190725099

BBC Inside Out East Midlands, ‘Brothers Beneath the Surface’ news feature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOHHcTgzs5E

https://www.hlf.org.uk

https://www.hlf.org.uk/about-us/news-features/changing-lives-johnson-digs-deep-and-reunites-mining-colleagues

https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/life-changing/project-funding-finder?icid=lich-212:bd:13:ist-ts:tnl:lich-prfufi-270:in:co

https://vimeo.com/267018775 Photo Video Miners’ Reunion 2018

https://www.hlf.org.uk/community/live-chats/capturing-memories-working-lives-20-september-2018

If you would like the Digging Deep HLF heritage project to feature in your heritage focused, publication or broadcast, simply contact us for the potential to support your educational, media or heritage focused organisation.

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