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Queen Coal - Women of the Miners' Strike (Hardcover, New ed.)
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Queen Coal - Women of the Miners' Strike (Hardcover, New ed.)
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The strike of 1984/5 cut deep into the traditional mining
communities yet in the midst of this wholesale destruction
something unexpected happened. From the dark corners of obscurity
came the voices of the wives, mothers and daughters of miners -
previously unheard, inexperienced, unrehearsed. Out of desperation
they found the strength and courage to not only stand and fight
alongside their men but to become political activists in their own
right. Overnight they mastered the media, learnt which journalists
to trust and began to appear in the newspapers, and on radio and
TV. But when the strike ended in defeat the media lost interest.
The women were dumped, allowed to slip back into the shadows. For
some the strike brought about a change; they had seen an existence
beyond the slagheaps and embraced it. For others the end of the
strike meant coming back to earth with a bump. Two decades later
Triona Holden, who was one of the BBC correspondents reporting on
the strike, takes the reader into the lives of these remarkable
women and reveals that what is good and inextinguishable about the
mining communities lives on in these women's articulate, funny and
frank stories.
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