Ambrose, Aimee and Mccarthy, Lindsey and Shahzad- Wyville, Sally (2026). JUSTHEAT- Oral histories of keeping warm and feeling cold at home: UK dataset. SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA). http://doi.org/10.17032/shu-0000000323
Summary
This dataset contains audio recordings and transcripts of 52 detailed oral histories of participants memories of keeping warm and feeling cold at home from 1945 to the present day (accounts start and end at different points in time within this period depending on their age and preference). The oral history interviews took place in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and Stamford, Lincolnshire and were conducted as part of a larger European project (JUSTHEAT: Looking back to move forward - a social and cultural history of home heating)led by SHU between 2022-2025.
| Keywords: | home heating, fires, coal, wood, heat pumps, feeling cold, keeping warm | |||||||||
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| Academic units: | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) > Research Centres > Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) | |||||||||
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| Publisher of the data: | SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA) | |||||||||
| Publication date: | 2 March 2026 | |||||||||
| Data last accessed: | 3 March 2026 | |||||||||
| Reason(s) for restriction and conditions for access: | None. | |||||||||
| DOI: | http://doi.org/10.17032/shu-0000000323 | |||||||||
| SHURDA URI: | https://shurda.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/323 | |||||||||
Associated research outputs in SHURA
- Low carbon heating transitions and Actor Network Theory: Entanglements with the fireside.
- Looking back to move forwards: a social and cultural history of heating in Europe - A summary of key findings across the UK, Romania, Sweden, Finland
- Was the Past More Sustainable? Keeping Warm
- Oral histories of domestic heating transitions in England and Sweden: lessons on how heating transitions play out across place and time
- From warming bodies to heating spaces: Using feminist energy justice and oral histories to unpack home heating transitions in Europe, 1945-present
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