Today’s blog is about the book ‘Shifting Horizons’ by Lynn Beaton. You can actually read Beaton’s book here in a PDF format. SHIFTING HORIZONS (From this introduction, Beaton sums up her reasons for writing the book.) My final regret is that I couldn’t have written a book about the whole
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Women Writers of the Mining Community (1)
Hello and welcome to our third week on the theme of women. This week is focused on written works around mining, by women. — For today’s blog, I thought we would start off by highlighting some work carried out by Professor Natalie Braber. Braber’s main interests are in the fields
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Women of Mining Parades & Galas
Good morning! We do hope that you have enjoyed our blogs so far, today is the 1oth blog on general history before we move into the theme of Women Writers of the Mining Community. Through research into this topic, we came across some lovely photographs from The Chad –
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MEET OUR VERY OWN ANN DONLAN!
Ann Donlan is our volunteer and director, who puts a lot of time and energy into our museum. You can read more about Ann here. Ann kindly agreed to write her own experiences of working as a short hand typist for the National Coal Board between 1965 and 1971, to
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Women: The Hosiery Factory
Briefly touched on in the first blog, there was a huge workforce of women in the mining community, as wives and daughters of miners, would often work in local factories. That was certainly the case in Nottingham. There was an undeniable solidarity between these workers, as team member and volunteer,
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Women’s History: Scratching The Surface!
Hello everyone! Today’s blog is a little different and will be a bit more text heavy. Through research into the topic, we have found some excellent sources that shine a light onto women’s integral part of the mining industry and will be using those sources, to share some highlights with
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PIT LASSES
Good morning. Wishing you all a wonderful and safe International Women’s Day! As you can see from previous blogs, there is a lot of history surrounding women in the mining community. Our aim with this theme, is to shine light onto women’s contributions through history and share informative resources and
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Women: COAL QUEENS
The Coal Queen pageant was a tradition that ran until the 1980s within mining communities. Coal Queens could be the wife, sister or daughter of pit workers and would be crowned each year at local miners’ picnics or carnivals. The competition added a touch of glamour and femininity to the
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Women: Of British Coal Mining
Chris Wrigley’s journal on Women in British Coal Mining provides us with great illustrations of women workers and the tasks they would carry out. For today’s blog, we thought we would share some with you. One of the most striking findings, through Wrigley’s research, is how historians have
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Women: As Workers (II)
As illustrated by this insightful source, you can see the many different roles women had within the mining community. In the 20th century, women still had several working roles in the mining industry, from office work, to canteen staff and even medics. Here below, are some local pics shared by
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