No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The
Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and
what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed.
Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and
railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the
miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher's
shutdowns. Defeat foretold the death of their industry. Tens of
thousands were cast onto the labour market with a minimum amount of
advice and support. Yet British politics all of a sudden revolves
around the coalfield constituencies that lent their votes to Boris
Johnson's Conservatives in 2019. Even in the Welsh Valleys, where
the 'red wall' still stands, support for the Labour Party has
halved in a generation. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades
of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words
of the people who lived through them.
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