TY - JOUR
T1 - The place of imagery in the transmission of culture: the banners of the Durham coalfield
AU - Wray, David
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The Durham Miners Gala is an annual event at which the associated branches of the Durham Miners Association carry their banners to a rally held in the city of Durham. The imagery displayed on those banners is representative of the class struggle to create a trade union that would represent and protect individuals and communities against the vagaries of the unbridled capitalism of the nineteenth century. In this way a tradition (and culture) was created not by social or political elites, but developed from ground level to counteract attempts to subsume them into a dominant ideology that saw them as little more than serfs.
AB - The Durham Miners Gala is an annual event at which the associated branches of the Durham Miners Association carry their banners to a rally held in the city of Durham. The imagery displayed on those banners is representative of the class struggle to create a trade union that would represent and protect individuals and communities against the vagaries of the unbridled capitalism of the nineteenth century. In this way a tradition (and culture) was created not by social or political elites, but developed from ground level to counteract attempts to subsume them into a dominant ideology that saw them as little more than serfs.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77950763663
U2 - 10.1017/S0147547909990135
DO - 10.1017/S0147547909990135
M3 - Article
SN - 0147-5479
VL - 76
SP - 147
EP - 163
JO - International Labor and Working-Class History
JF - International Labor and Working-Class History
IS - 1
ER -