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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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Tags: books, history, miners strike, mining, nottingham, women writers, women's history month and working class.

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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Tags: history, mining, nottingham, women writers and women's history month.

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