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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