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- Title
Remembering the Piper Alpha Disaster.
- Authors
O'Byrne, Catherine
- Abstract
The Piper Alpha disaster remains the most significant event in the history of the British North Sea oil industry, yet despite a large range of scholarship on the topic women's experiences of the disaster have not been heard publicly. This article uses oral history testimony to add the private experiences of women who were affected by the disaster to the public experiences of men. The focus of the analysis is on the gendered and political nature of remembrance and the impact that women had on the way that Piper Alpha was commemorated and remembered.
- Subjects
NORTH Sea; UNITED Kingdom; PETROLEUM industry accidents; ORAL history; OFFSHORE oil well drilling accidents; WOMEN; DRILLING platform accidents; MEMORIALIZATION; HISTORICAL research methods
- Publication
Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, 2011, Vol 37, Issue 2, p90
- ISSN
0315-7997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/hrrh.2011.370207