Download or read book Yorkshires flying pickets in the miners strike 1984 85 The diary of striking Silverwood striking miner written by Bruce Wilson and published by Wordsworth Writing House. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Wilson's strike diary is an honest and action packed account of what it was like for five young men on picket duty during the longest most bitterest dispute in modern times. This complete unedited account with images taken on the day to compliment the day's events help to paint a better picture of what was happening. The diary contains mixed emotions throughout. It's a tragedy. heartbreaking at times & hilarious all at the same time. It's so funny even in the face of adversity, it shows real human emotions and endurance, some of the humour is off the scale. Not many diaries can portray that. The government was out to break us, "They wanted a war, they got one" We were fighting not just for our jobs and communities but for our mates down the road jobs and communities. The story of five young striking miners' who became Yorkshire flying pickets determined to stop working miners' crossing the picket lines up and down the Country. Nottinghamshire became a police state. No entry for Yorkshire striking miners' and others from other coalfields. Read about a Yorkshire miner and his wife losing a baby, "The NUM paid to bury his child" It never entered his head once to break the strike. The battles in South Yorkshire mining communities, Silverwood, Maltby, Brodsworth collieries and many more, including many entries for Orgreave from May 1984 upto and including June the 18th 1984.
Download or read book Yorkshire s Flying Pickets in the 1984 85 Miners Strike written by Brian Elliott and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Wilson's diary is an honest and action-packed account of what life was like for five young men on picket duty during the longest and most bitter industrial dispute in modern times: the 1984-85 miners' strike. Bruce and, younger brother Bob, along with mates Shaun, Darren and 'Captain' Bob crammed themselves into an old car or 'battlebus' and, despite police barriers and blockades, journeyed into Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and elsewhere in order to express their views and support their union in a country which they thought was free. We are able to experience at first-hand and day by day events, which were often frightening, occasionally humorous but never dull; and also gain insight into major conflicts at Orgreave, Brodsworth, Rossington and Maltby as well as at locations further afield. Towards the end of the strike our flying pickets found themselves on home ground, demonstrating at Silverwood and nearby collieries, including Cortonwood where many observers consider the great strike began. Any former striking miner will find the book compulsive reading and despite the passage of twenty years the journey will seem like yesterday. But there is a great deal for us all to appreciate from this remarkably frank and moving testimony.
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Download or read book The Miners Strike Day by Day written by Arthur Wakefield and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing probable redundancy in his mid-fifties, South Elmsall miner Arthur Wakefield, fought for jobs and communities throughout the great strike of 1984/85. He also kept a marvellous diary, recording his experiences, impressions and events in considerable detail. The diary is a unique personal day by day account of the most bitter industrial dispute of the 20th century. Armed with nothing more than determination and a camera, he by-passed countless blockades and in the early hours of the morning he would join his colleagues at picket lines at pits, ports, power stations and works in many parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire and the Midlands. He also attended many rallies and marches, and was a regular 'support the miners' collector in London. Arthur Wakefield was a key witness at the 'Battle of Orgreave', on 18 June 1984, which he describes as 'Monday, Bloody Monday', the 100th day of the strike. His descriptions of the 'Battle' contained here in this book have also helped produce an historical live re-enactment to be shown on Channel 4 in April.
Download or read book Yorkshire s Flying Pickets written by Bruce Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Wilson's diary is an honest and action-packed account of what life was like for five young men on picket duty during the longest and most bitter industrial dispute in modern times: the 1984-85 miners' strike. Bruce and, younger brother Bob, along with mates Shaun, Darren and 'Captain' Bob crammed themselves into an old car or 'battlebus' and, despite police barriers and blockades, journeyed into Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and elsewhere in order to express their views and support their union in a country which they thought was free. We are able to experience at first-hand and day by day events, which were often frightening, occasionally humorous but never dull; and also gain insight into major conflicts at Orgreave, Brodsworth, Rossington and Maltby as well as at locations further afield. Towards the end of the strike our flying pickets found themselves on home ground, demonstrating at Silverwood and nearby collieries, including Cortonwood where many observers consider the great strike began. Any former striking miner will find the book compulsive reading and despite the passage of twenty years the journey will seem like yesterday. But there is a great deal for us all to appreciate from this remarkably frank and moving testimony. Selling Points * Foreword by NUM official * 20th Anniversary of 1984-85 Strike * Ist published diary of a young Yorkshire Flying Picket * Highly Illustrated, many never before published Author Details Brian Elliott comes from a Barnsley area mining family. His father was a miner, so were his uncles, paternal grandfather and great grandfather. After a teaching and lecturing career in Royston and Dinnington, Brian now works as a freelance writer and editor with a special interest in former coal mining communities. Other books published by Brian on the subject of mining include Barnsley Pits and Pitmen, The Miners' Strike Day by Day, Yorkshire Miners, and (forthcoming) Voices from the Dark: Yorkshire Mining Veterans (based on recorded interviews). Brian Elliott is married, has two children and lives in Warmsworth, near Doncaster. Brian has made many live local history contributions to BBC Radio Sheffield and has assisted with several television documentaries.
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Download or read book The 1984 85 Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire written by Jonathan Symcox and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lowe, chairman of Clipstone Colliery's strike committee, was at the forefront of the fight for jobs of the twelve months' 1984/85 miners' strike at a time when most Nottinghamshire miners preferred to work. The now well known 'dirty war' fought by the Thatcher Government against the National Union of Mineworkers transformed him from a passive family man into a political animal. Lowe was witness to many disturbing events, recording his experiences and thoughts in a diary so that they would never be forgotten: read about a pensioner friend beaten at a police roadblock, a bleak but unifying Christmas, the slow trickle back to work; and finally the the dreaded day the strike ended - and the first harrowing weeks back at the coal face among people he despised. With the scars of the dispute still fresh, John Lowe reflected upon both local and national events to produce pieces of writing from the heart, illustrated via a huge collection of documentation and memorabilia. Although a tale of sorrow it is also a testament to the unquenchable spirit of men and women fighting for a just cause during the most significant industrial dispute in modern history.
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Download or read book The Miner s Strike written by Brian Elliot and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing probable redundancy in his mid-fifties, South Elmsall miner Arthur Wakefield, fought for jobs and communities throughout the great strike of 1984/85. He also kept a marvellous diary, recording his experiences, impressions and events in considerable detail. The diary is a unique personal day by day account of the most bitter industrial dispute of the 20th century. Armed with nothing more than determination and a camera, he by-passed countless blockades and in the early hours of the morning he would join his colleagues at picket lines at pits, ports, power stations and works in many parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire and the Midlands. He also attended many rallies and marches, and was a regular 'support the miners' collector in London. Arthur Wakefield was a key witness at the 'Battle of Orgreave', on 18 June 1984, which he describes as 'Monday, Bloody Monday', the 100th day of the strike. His descriptions of the 'Battle' contained here in this book have also helped produce an historical live re-enactment to be shown on Channel 4 in April.
Download or read book Coal Crisis and Conflict written by Jonathan Winterton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses conditions in the coal mining sector which precipitated the strike. Discusses the mobilisation, organisation and maintenance of the strike, the strike settlement and its aftermath.
Download or read book Strike 84 85 written by North Yorkshire Women Against Pit Closures and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book about the miner's strike of 1984-1985 was written during the strike by those who took part. More than fifty women (and some men) from mining communities in Yorkshire have contributed their stories, their feelings and their achievements. And whatever the eventual outcome of the strike, there can be no doubt that for many of the women who took part, it has been a victory". Back of cover
Download or read book Midlife written by Elinor Carucci and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed photographer Elinor Carucci, a vivid chronicle of one woman's passage through aging, family, illness, and intimacy. It is a period in life that is universal, at some point, to everyone, yet in our day-to-day and cultural dialogue, nearly invisible. Midlife is a moving and empathetic portrait of an artist at the point in her life when inexorable change is more apparent than ever. Elinor Carucci, whose work has been collected in the previous acclaimed volumes Closer (2002, 2009) and Mother (2013), continues her immersive and close-up examination of her own life in this volume, portraying this moment in vibrant detail. As one of the most autobiographically rigorous photographers of her generation, Carucci recruits and revisits the same members of her family that we have seen since her work gained prominence two decades ago. Even as we observe telling details--graying hair, the pressures and joys of marriage, episodes of pronounced illness, the evolution of her aging parents' roles as grandparents, her children's increasing independence--we are invited to reflect on the experiences that we all share contending with the challenges of life, love, and change.
Download or read book The First Cargo written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Author-Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste.He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.-Wikipedia
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