ProfKeith Gildart

Professor of Labour and Social History

Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences

  • Professor of Labour and Social History
    Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
  • 07709664931 (Mobile)
  • University of Wolverhampton, History, Politics and War Studies, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

TEACHING INTERESTS

The Making of Modern Britain
The Social History of Victorian Britain
The Working Class in Twentieth Century Britain
Youth Culture and Popular Music in Twentieth Century Britain

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    A Girl of Many Colours: Southern Women in the Songs of Dolly Parton
    8 Apr 2026
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    We're Like the Land That Time Forgot: Deindustrialisation and Reconstruction in Barnsley
    22 Jan 2024
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Wild Boys? Violence in the 1984-5 Miners' Strike
    10 Nov 2022
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Masculinity and the British Coal Industry from nationalisation to pit closures
    17 Jun 2022
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    The Neston Collieries 1759-1855: An Industrial Revolution in Rural Cheshire
    7 Jun 2022
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Revisiting the legacy of Deindustrialisation
    24 Feb 2022
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Every Village Would Have A Band: Building Community with Music.
    2 Dec 2021
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    ‘This is about an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs’: Continuity and Change in the Life and Family Experiences of Fifty English Working-Class Individuals between the years 1900 and 1945
    15 Oct 2020
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Deindustrialisation and industrial communities: the Lanarkshire coalfields c1947-1983
    2 Jun 2020
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    The Achievements and Legacy of the Miners' Welfare Fund
    27 Apr 2020
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    The Migration of Mod: Analysing the Mod subculture in the north of England
    18 Feb 2020
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The British General Election of 1923
    1 Feb 2019
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    The Orgins and Development of the Labour MOvement in West London 1918-1970
    31 Jan 2019
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Deindustrilaisation, Class, Memory and identity in Two Black Country Steel Towns
    1 Oct 2018
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Pressure Drop: Resistance to Racism and Fascism in the West Midlands 1974-83
    1 Oct 2018
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    An Analysis of British Army Veterans' Oral Testimony and the Campaign in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
    12 Sep 2018
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Trade unions and the political culture of the British Labour Party, 1931-1940
    13 Mar 2018
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Battle for Bilston Steel
    1 Oct 2017
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The history of the General Federation of Trade Unions
    1 Oct 2017
  • DOCTORAL EXAMINATION
    Flying the Red Flag? Communists in the National Union of Mineworkers, 1945-1985
    10 Jun 2015
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Death on the Warwickshire Coalfield
    1 Oct 2010 - 30 Sep 2013
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Old Habits Persist: Change and Continuity in Black Country Communities 1945-19870
    1 Oct 2007 - 30 Sep 2010