Arthur McIvor is Professor of Social History and Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. His research interests lie in oral history, labour history, the history of work and occupational health. He has published extensively in these areas, including   Miners’ Lung (Ashgate, 2007: with Ronald Johnston) and Working Lives: Work in Britain since 1945 (Palgrave, 2013). He has subsequently completed an AHRC funded project and a co-authored book, Juliette Pattinson, Arthur McIvor and Linsey Robb, Men in Reserve: British Civilian Masculinities in the Second World War (Manchester University Press, forthcoming, 2016). He is currently working on an oral history of deindustrialisation and on disability (particularly in British coalfield communities) since 1945.