Miniatures Episode 10: Embracing the Chaos - Documenting the Everyday with Patrick Bence-Trower

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Miniatures: Small Stories - Big Histories

Miniatures Podcast

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Welcome to Miniatures, the Podcast for the History of Everyday Life. We show how the big picture in history is best seen through the assemblage of individual and local stories, what the German historian Alf Lüdtke called ‘miniatures’. We discuss all aspects of the history of everyday life, microhistory, and ‘history from below’, featuring interviews and discussion with experts in the field. Between 2020 and 2024 this podcast was supported by the European Research Council as part of the 'Dictatorship as Experience Project' at the University of St Andrews.

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Miniatures Episode 10: Embracing the Chaos - Documenting the Everyday with Patrick Bence-Trower

Miniatures: Small Stories - Big Histories

36 minutes 8 seconds

1 year ago

Miniatures Episode 10: Embracing the Chaos - Documenting the Everyday with Patrick Bence-Trower

How can a group of grandmothers in a town square change your understanding of the place you grew up? Former St Andrews student Patrick Bence-Trower talks to Huw about his experiences creating a documentary on the sociocultural impact of the Francoist penitentiary system, the merits of an ethnokafenological approach to research, and the ways in which his documentary-making experiences allowed him to view his hometown and its occupants in a whole new light.

The article Huw mentioned on the ethnokafenological approach can be found here: “Reclaiming the Land: Belonging, Landscape, and in Situ Displacement on the Plain of Karditsa (Greece).” History and Anthropology 31, no. 5 (October 19, 2020): 643–68.

This podcast was originally published on 1st November 2023 as part of the ERC research project ‘Dictatorship as experience: A comparative history of everyday life and the ‘lived experience’ of dictatorship in Mediterranean Europe (1922-1975)’ led by Prof. Kate Ferris at the University of St Andrews. To learn more about the wider project, visit: ⁠arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/everyday-dictatorship/⁠

Hosted by: Dr Huw Halstead

Produced by: Islay Shelbourne

Music by: Oi Palaiológoi (Violin - Roddy Beaton, Outi - David Hughes)