First name/s: Annie
Last name: Skinner
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Date of birth: 30/09/1952
Year of birth: 1952
Life before Ruskin
Date and place of birth:
Family:
Two children, Ben and Emily
Work: Student nurse (1972), Coordinator Oxford Women’s Aid Refuge (1970s)
Politics/Trade union activity: ACTSS (T&GWU) Labour Party member, Oxford Anti-Fascist Committee
Trade Union membership (at time of entry to Ruskin)
Life at Ruskin
Dates at Ruskin: 1979-1981
Source of funding: Local Authority Discretionary Grant
Campaigns/political activity:
Oxford Students’ Trade Union Liaison Committee (OSTULC), Convener Oxford Steel Workers Strike Committee, President RSU
Subjects studied at Ruskin: Social Work
Dissertation:
Qualification: Certificate in Qualified Social Work, Diploma in Applied Social Studies
Life after Ruskin
Education:
PhD – Oxford Brookes University 2003
Work:
Social worker (1981-1992) Oxfordshire County Council, OBU lecturer and health care researcher, historian
Politics/trade union activity:
NALGO, Oxford Trades Council, Oxford East Labour Party
Family: Married John Skinner 1985. Daughter Elsie b. 1990.
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Year of death: 0
Achievements / Publications
‘Growing old in Oxford 1930-1960’, unpublished PhD (2003)
Cowley Road, A history, Signal Books (2005) (reissued 2008) http://www.signalbooks.co.uk/categories.php?ct=9
‘Unearthing the past: an exploration into the people behind the development of a Victorian suburb’, Family and Community History, Vol 123, 2 pp 84-100, (2009)
‘What price democracy and justice?’ A study of the politics of protest and planning, Planning Perspectives, 23 (April 2008) pp 171-196.
‘Last Call Before the Undertaker: A community’s perceptions of the local workhouse before and after the inception of the welfare state’ Family and Community History, Vol 8, 2, pp 123-142 (2005).
- Ss Mary & John Educational Graveyard Trail www.ssmjchurchyard.org.uk.
Local tours for Oxford Preservation Trust, Open Doors Programme from September 2009
Hidden and Forgotten Histories in Victorian east Oxford: a walk to discover a nineteenth century streetscape and the hidden histories of an east Oxford suburb, visiting Victorian establishments to hear the stories behind these landmarks.
Patient Pathways in Victorian Oxford: a walk to visit the 19th century landscape of poverty and health care, to discover what happened to people needing medical care in Victorian Oxford.
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Annie Skinner