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Introduction

Chislet Colliery worker c.1950s
Chislet Colliery worker c.1950s

‘We are simultaneously bearers and makers of history’
Elizabeth Tonkin, Narrating Our Pasts.

Oral History and the Kent Coalfield Communities

Collecting the memories and life experiences of the people of the coalfield communities of Kent.

The CHIK project was set up to record and commemorate the coalfield communities of Kent though the collection of photographs and oral reminiscences.

 

Listen to a selection of the Oral History collection