Which side were you on?
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The Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 was one of the bitterest labour disputes in British industrial history, and a pivotal moment in British politics. 40 years on, its legacy is still evident in the landscapes and memories of former mining communities across the nation. Here’s our selection of background reading from our shelves.
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A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their familiesForty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest…
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“THIS BOOK IS A SHINING EXAMPLE OF THE NEED FOR THE ARTS TO BE INVOLVED IN POLITICAL MOVEMENTS.” —THE MORNING STAR“A POWERFUL AND STIMULATING RECORD OF THE STRIKE... A BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED BOOK.” —THE…
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A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024A BBC MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024AN INDEPENDENT BEST FICTION TO READ IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGHLIGHT OF 2024A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN i-D FICTION HIGHLIGHT TO BE EXCITED FOR IN…
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Edited by Tom Overton and Matthew HarleThe Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited as…
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Stylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's Britain.…
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From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster‘A rich social history … Paxman’s book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously’ DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES‘Vividly…
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Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Emile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France, translated with an introduction by…
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In 1984, a small group of metropolitan homosexual men and lesbian women stepped away from the vibrant culture and hedonism of London's defiant gay scene to befriend and support the beleaguered villages of a very traditional mining community…
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Now with new preface by the author.Dragged Up Proppa is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England.'Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important…
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