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Published by: https://raggeduniversity.co.uk/

Watch the YouTube video: (4) Working Class Academics Conference Interview With Lisa McKenzie – YouTube I am pleased to be involved in the organisation and creation of the Working Class Acade...

Published by: https://www.nottinghampost.com/

An author and researcher has created a collection of diaries from working-class people across the UK including Nottingham. The book, ‘Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class,’ doc...

Published by: https://workingclassassn.org/

An international Working Class Storyfest co-organized by the Working-Class Studies Association, the Working Class Theatre Makers, and the Working Class Collective is in the works. Have a story to sha...

Published by: https://www.bbc.co.uk/

A “cultural exchange” project has been set up between a former pit village and two inner-city areas. It was developed by Dr Lisa McKenzie, a senior lecturer in sociology who lives in B...

Published by: https://www.chad.co.uk/

The book was written and put together in the early months of the first government-issued lockdown during the 2020 pandemic. Lisa said she had more time to work on creative projects and turned her ...

Published by: https://www.mirror.co.uk/

“Went shopping at ASDA,” John from London writes in Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class. “Two security workers left and chased a man running from the store… When they came back everyone asked...

Published by: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/

Two months have passed since the Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class was published by the Working Class Collective and they have been filled with multiple emotions. ...

Published by: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/

The working-class experience of lockdown has been routinely sidelined. Lisa Mckenzie (Durham University) collected 38 lockdown diaries describing the isolation, fear and loneliness of this period, wh...