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Arqueotex CollectionPhysical DetailNumber of items in the collection: 42 items
Venues where material can be listened to: Record Office Media available on: CD. Collection HistoryThe Arqueotex collection contains 42 interviews with 59 people, which
were undertaken by the North Warwickshire and Hinckley College as part
of a trans national, European Community approved, pilot project involving
partners throughout Europe, who shared the same textile traditions and
faced the same industrial crisis. Other partners in the project were Centre
de Documentaci - I Museu Textil (Terrassa, Spain), Atelier (Chantemerle,
France), Cork (Ireland) and the Wool Museum of Beria Interior, (Covilha,
Portugal). Rhianydd Murray recorded the interviews between 1997 and 1999.
What the Collection ContainsThe collection includes interviews on a range of aspects associated
with the hosiery industry in the Hinckley, Earl Shilton and Nuneaton area
during the middle and latter part of the 20th century. Over sixty years
of techniques of the trade, production methods, trade union activity and
working conditions are combined with the more social aspects of work,
such as works outings, childcare and holidays. The everyday life of these
hosiery workers is also recorded, together with more unusual experiences,
such as wartime service during the Second World War.
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