Welcome to our world

This blog is part of an invitation to all people to engage with our stories here in Blackball. The Blackball Working Class History Project has been going for several years now and our official website is here. Here on this blog, we want to present both stories from now and from our archives. We've got a wealth of oral histories and plan to share some of them here. We're all pretty opinionated and are aware that the gains of our forbears in Blackball, in the union movement, in working people's lives, involved courage, struggle and speaking out. Hopefully this blog is a space for people to speak out, to make connections between our present and our past. A place to forge bonds which help make the Blackball experience more meaningful for those of you who physically visit us and for those of you who connect across the internet from further away.

Over the next few weeks, we will share something about ourselves, reports from May Day and hopefully the first podcast. That last one is my new technical challenge for the month! Please do post comments and let us know what you would like to see on this blog. I've left anonymous comments enabled at the moment as I know not everyone who wants to share has a blogging login.

Sandra