For a little extra context on the Women’s Action Groups, more can be read here. Witham’s book was dedicated to the active women in Nottinghamshire, who were involved in the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85. On page 5 of the book, Witham sums up the Nottinghamshire women in a few lines:
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1 (WOMEN 1984-85) THE MINERS’ STRIKE
Welcome to our fourth and final theme of the month. The core source material for this week’s topic is from the book ‘Hearts & Minds’ by Joan Witham, which shares the names and stories of prominent women of the Miners’ Strike in Nottinghamshire. The book centres around local Women’s Action
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Women Writers of the Mining Community (5)
For our 5th and final blog this week, we have ‘From A Rock to a Hard Place: Memories of the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike’ by Beverley Trounce. This leads us nicely into our final theme, centred around women’s involvement in the strike, and their role in the community and on the
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Women Writers of the Mining Community (4)
Leading us into our fourth and final theme, around Women of the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 is ‘Norma Dolby’s Diary.’ Sorting out food supplies, soup kitchens and touring the country to drum up support became second nature to Norma Dolby during the miners’ strike. She was a pivotal person in
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Women Writers of the Mining Community (3)
Today’s blog is about a play that was written by local writer, Beth Steel. The play is summed up by writers and directors in an interview with Hampstead Theatre. (Watch Here) The trailer for the play can be watched here. WONDERLAND TRAILER Wonderland was written partly out of a desire
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Women Writers of the Mining Community (2)
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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