A personal recollection by Colin Clews, a member of the LGBT+ community in Notts describing his experiences growing up as a as a gay man in a mining village in County Durham in the 1950s and 1960s and his feelings of loyalty to the mining community at the time of
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PRIDE – Real Life Inspiration
For today’s blog, we thought we would share this interesting clip about the real stories and people behind the 2014 film, Pride. WATCH HERE Wow, it’s pretty cool to see the real people behind the characters!
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PRIDE (2014)
As many of you may know, a film about LGSM’s involvement in the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 was released in 2014. If you haven’t heard, this is your sign to check it out. It is heartbreaking, funny, and shares a slice of history that may not always be known in
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‘Our Mam’ – A Tribute to Gwendoline Macleod
First of all, we would just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who have read, liked and shared our blogs over the last 4 weeks. It has been incredible to share these stories and hear your stories too. Women have always played such an important role in
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2 (WOMEN 1984-85) HEARTS & MINDS
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 (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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