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Book Synopsis The Pitmen's Requiem by : Peter Crookston
Download or read book The Pitmen's Requiem written by Peter Crookston and published by McNidder and Grace Limited. This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Crookston's book offers a beautifully written journalist's account of a Durham mining village and the Great Northern Coalfield woven around the life of Robert Saint, the composer of Gresford, a brass band composition commemorating an earlier mining disaster in which 256 workers died. Crookston brings his formidable observational qualities and writing skills as a journalist to produce a gripping narrative with utterly compelling characters and a heart-rending culmination in the demise of the mining industry under assault by Thatcher. The story is told in a gentle, unpretentious way, frequently giving voice to the characters themselves, many of whom the author knew personally or got to know in preparing the book. Apart from capturing a critical moment in a disappearing world, the book offers a vantage point from which to reflect on our own culture, and what we have lost in post-industrial Britain: the loss of community which did so much to sustain and nurture those miners in their desperate plights. This is as much a history of culture and place as much as it is biography, a book that is at once an elegy and a tribute
Book Synopsis Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory by : Gavin Holman
Download or read book Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory written by Gavin Holman and published by Gavin Holman. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many brass bands that have flourished in Britain and Ireland over the last 200 years very few have documented records covering their history. This directory is an attempt to collect together information about such bands and make it available to all. Over 19,600 bands are recorded here, with some 10,600 additional cross references for alternative or previous names. This volume supersedes the earlier “British Brass Bands – a Historical Directory” (2016) and includes some 1,400 bands from the island of Ireland. A separate work is in preparation covering brass bands beyond the British Isles. A separate appendix lists the brass bands in each county
Book Synopsis The Brass Band Bibliography by : Gavin Holman
Download or read book The Brass Band Bibliography written by Gavin Holman and published by Gavin Holman. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9th edition, 2019. A comprehensive list of books, articles, theses and other material covering the brass band movement, its history, instruments and musicology; together with other related topics (originally issued in book form in January 2009)
Book Synopsis Coal Mine Disasters in the Modern Era c. 1900–1980 by : Brian Elliott
Download or read book Coal Mine Disasters in the Modern Era c. 1900–1980 written by Brian Elliott and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These haunting images, with well-researched facts, figures and timelines providing context, bring the bygone era of 20th-century coal mining to life.”—Family Tree Although everyday fatalities in mines was far greater, it was the disasters that encouraged those in power to reform the way in which miners had to work underground, especially with regard to safety. And it would be no exaggeration to say that it was the disasters that greatly contributed to bringing the coal industry into national control. Sadly, for bereaved individuals and families, nothing could really compensate for the loss of one or more of a loved one. The impact of the big disasters, where hundreds of men and boys—one or two generations—were lost, immediately, the impact was massive, and continued to be felt many years afterwards. New and restored disaster memorials bear testimony to the great respect that former mining communities continue to have for their “lost miners.” Using many previously unpublished images, and a carefully supportive text, the author provides a detailed overview of mining disasters in the modern era, from the early 1900s to the 1980s. It is the first book of its kind to attempt such a large project in pictorial form with a foreword by Ceri Thompson, curator of the Big Pit, the Welsh national mining museum. The book is published at a particularly poignant time, after the recent closure of Britain’s last deep coal mine. “So many remarkable photographs and drawings: The story may be tragic, but it is one that lies at the very heart of the history of coal mining in Britain.”—WDYTYA? magazine
Book Synopsis The English Village by : Martin Wainwright
Download or read book The English Village written by Martin Wainwright and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village remains a quintessential and much-loved treasure of the English countryside. This rural idyll has inspired generations of great poets, novelists and artists including the likes of Constable, Hardy, Wordsworth, as well as providing the picturesque setting for modern TV series such as Lark Rise to Candleford and Cranford. The English Village celebrates all that is unique and loved about a typical village - the pub, the green, the school, the church, the pond, the local shop and more - as well as exploring how the village has changed over the centuries. Also includes fascinating information on the origins of village names - Siddington, for example, means the farm of the valley (sidd: valley, in: belonging to, ton: farmland). Filled with facts, figures, customs and lore, there is a wealth of fascinating information to be discovered in this charming book.
Book Synopsis The Shadow of the Mine by : Ray Hudson
Download or read book The Shadow of the Mine written by Ray Hudson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners' Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. 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. Their defeat doomed a way of life. The lingering sense of abandonment in former mining communities would be difficult to overstate. Yet recent electoral politics has revolved around the coalfield constituencies in Labour's Red Wall. 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. This edition includes a new postscript on why Thatcher's war on the miners wasn't good for green politics. 'Excellent' NEW STATESMAN 'Brilliant' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Enlightening' GUARDIAN
Book Synopsis Northern Gospel, Northern Church by : Gavin Wakefield
Download or read book Northern Gospel, Northern Church written by Gavin Wakefield and published by Sacristy Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together prominent practitioners and academics to answer these questions and explore what it means to proclaim the gospel in the North of England from many angles.
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Book Synopsis Digging Up The Pitmen by : John Swain
Download or read book Digging Up The Pitmen written by John Swain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a family saga, over five generations, set against the social history of the South Yorkshire pit communities in the twentieth century: disasters, strikes and galas. It is the story of the North family: their relationships, births, deaths, family break-ups and get-togethers. Nigel North, at fifty-five, leads a secluded life in Newcastle after his wife's death. He has every expectation that it will stay that way until, in 1992, he receives a copy of the Last Will and Testament of his Uncle Albert, a South Yorkshire pitman who he has never met. He has been left a large sum of money. His ten cousins, of whom he has never heard, have each been left a much smaller sum. Nigel cannot conceive how his uncle knows of his existence, why he should bequeath him so much money and why his father severed himself from his family. The answers lie back in the pitmen's strike and, then, the inter-war years.
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Book Synopsis The Roman Catholic Bishops of Hexham and Newcastle by : Paul Severn
Download or read book The Roman Catholic Bishops of Hexham and Newcastle written by Paul Severn and published by Sacristy Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological survey of the Bishops of Hexham and Newcastle from 1850 to the present day.
