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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£12.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999702625 | ISBN 10: 199970262x
In January 1993, seven pit camps were established to fight against pit closures announced in 1992 by Michael Heseltine, the President of the Board and Trade. One such Pit Camp, at Houghton Main in the Dearne Valley, was set up by local women and the ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786062918 | ISBN 10: 1786062917
They did so in the midst of the 1984 miners' strike - the most bitter and divisive dispute for more than half a century, and in one of the most turbulent periods in modern British history. In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher's hardcore social an ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780749019440 | ISBN 10: 0749019441
Longlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger 1893. Wigan is in the grip of a devastating national miners’ strike and a harsh winter. Arthur Morris, a wealthy colliery owner whose intransigence on miners’ pay is the main cause of the st ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781898240082 | ISBN 10: 1898240086
Pit Props marks the end of an era in coal mining in the UK and highlights how the incredible year-long struggle by the miners in defence of jobs and communities still resonates today. One section focuses on the vital creative links between music, pol ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007596164 | ISBN 10: 0007596162
Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the youngest age girls could do so at the time. She continued working after she married and her work took he ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780750962018 | ISBN 10: 0750962011
By the end of the notorious 1984/85 miners’ strike many wanted to forget their painful experiences. Thirty years on people are ready to look back and talk about what happened in England during this defining moment of industrial action. Beverley ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783463664 | ISBN 10: 178346366x
In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coalminers' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundr ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571314874 | ISBN 10: 0571314872
Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people. David Peace's sweeping, bloody and dramatic fictional portrait of the year that left an indel ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909844537 | ISBN 10: 1909844535
Up ahead, Helen saw the police line harden into a barricade of bodies and shields. Resin batons thudded on Perspex shields; slow, thuggish, brutal. Goosebumps studded her arms and legs. Her pace slowed to the truncheons’ beat. Mary halted a yard from ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755363254 | ISBN 10: 0755363256
A gritty and nostalgic memoir from a Scottish miner's wife. Growing up in a mining family, Cath's husband Doug promised his father he wouldn't follow in his dangerous footsteps. But after struggling with terrible poverty in 1970s Scotlan ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781845631444 | ISBN 10: 1845631447
John Lowe was at the forefront of the fight for jobs during the twelve months of the miners’ strike from 1984-5 as the elected chairman of Clipstone Colliery’s strike committee in the largely working county of Nottinghamshire. The dirty war fought by ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604863000 | ISBN 10: 1604863005
In the first half of the 20th century, strikes and Union battles, murders and frame-ups were common in every industrial center in the U.S. But none of these episodes compared in scope to the West Virginia Mine Wars. The uprisings of coal mi ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752457499 | ISBN 10: 0752457497
At the outbreak of the Second World War the government short-sightedly allowed thousands of miners to enlist in the armed services. By 1943 the war effort was in danger of grinding to a halt because of a lack of coal. In answer Ernest Bevin, the Mini ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781849010252 | ISBN 10: 1849010250
A controversial new investigation in the 1984 Miners strike and how it changed Modern Britain. The Miners’ strike was a dividing line in Modern British history. Before 1984, Britain was an industrial nation, reborn from the ashes of the Second ... more
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