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 (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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