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ACTS OF GENEROSITY AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT – CONTINUED THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S MINERS We are continuing our series highlighting the acts of community generosity of Nottinghamshire’s miners, made possible through the Miners Welfare Fund, created following the Mining Industry Act of 1920. Working class towns and villages in the
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ACTS OF GENEROSITY AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT:  THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S MINERS   The background In 1919, in his evidence to the Sankey Commission, which had been set up to investigate the chaotic privatised coal industry, Sidney Webb, asked, “Why do twice as many babies die in a miner’s cottage
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