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Strike 84-85 Item Info

Title:
Strike 84-85
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:
Tony Ward at the Arc & THrostle Press, Yorkshire Arts Circus
Creator:
North Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures
Date:
1986
Type:
text
Format:
application/pdf
Subjects:
mining gender work working-class emotions activism
Latitude:
53.7167958369893
Longitude:
-1.33854852938746
Location:
Castleford
Language:
English
Source
Preferred Citation:
"Strike 84-85", Digital Collections, FWWCP
Reference Link:
https://library.bc.edu/ds/fwwcp/items/fwwcp_tmpid_15_135.html