Giving an Overlooked History the Airtime It Deserves
Video production for overlooked history — researching, scripting and producing an educational video on Black miners' heritage in the UK, free to museums, schools and the public.
Black Miners Museum, owned by Norma Gregory, Director, needed educational videos giving long-overdue visibility to Black miners’ contribution to the UK coal industry — accessible free to museums, schools, universities and the wider public. I independently researched, scripted, produced and edited one episode of a six-part video series as part of an accredited Level 1 heritage interpretation qualification, produced in collaboration with Swainson Productions. The finished video went on the company’s YouTube channel, and the series will also be used as marketing material for the Black Miners Museum.
Before writing a word of script, I researched Black miners’ heritage and diverse mining history across the UK and Wales — from Roman-era mining through to the 1984 Miners’ Strike and beyond — alongside equality, diversity and inclusion practice in the heritage sector and the wider decolonisation of museums internationally, work that also fed into the Museum’s partnerships with other institutions.
I independently researched, wrote the content outline, script and lesson plan for my episode, and sourced high-quality archive images, footage and contributions from other mining museums, practitioners, curators and community members. I also produced an accompanying PDF resource with feedback questionnaires and activity polls built in to measure impact.