Meet Janet Spencer ‘I am a Director of the Museum. I have a background in Sales and I play an important role in fundraising for the Museum, generating ideas, and organising selling events at coalmining heritage and history events; I organise auction room events, raffles and tombolas. I
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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 (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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