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Strike 84-85: North Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures Item Info
- Title:
- Strike 84-85: North Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures
- Description:
- Published by North Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures in 1985. Women of Yorkshire share their memoirs and poetry from the Miners’ Strike of 1984. Chapters included focus on soup kitchens and rations, fundraising, family life, protesting, and national conferences for women against pit closures. The stories shared expose the level of hardship experienced with reduced wages. This book details the complexity of daily life, family, protesting, politics, and police brutality during the strike period.
- Publisher:
- Yorkshire Art Circus
- Date:
- 1985
- Type:
- text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Subjects:
- working-class domestic life food miners police politics protest strike violence women Yorkshire
- Latitude:
- 53.7167958369893
- Longitude:
- -1.33854852938746
- Location:
- Castleford
- Language:
- English
- Is a Part of:
- Trades Union Congress Library Collections, FWWCP Collection, Region 03 Yorkshire, Box 7
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Strike 84-85: North Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures", Digital Collections, FWWCP
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/fwwcp/items/fwwcp03y0700176.html