Historian & author. Knows more about coal mining than most mums on the playground. Rep'd by the lovely @KayPeddle. MINING MEN out Feb 2025 @ChattoBooks
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4 Oct 2024
As this week marked the end of coal power in Britain it feels timely to announce that my book MINING MEN, will be out on 13 Feb '25 @ChattoBooks You can preorder it at: bit.ly/3ZKO7Uf It has been a labour of love, and I hope it does the miners & their communities justice
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10 Dec 2024
#OnThisDay 1984. @LGSMpride Pits and Perverts gig takes place.
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7 Dec 2024
The Clash played a benefit concert in support of striking miners 40 years ago today.
The gig - billed as ’Scargill’s Christmas Party’ was held at the Brixton Academy, London, on 7 December 1984.
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4 Dec 2024
Happy St Barbara’s day - patron saint of miners (as well as artillery men and others!)
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3 Dec 2024
Very excited about this event @PortyBooks in Edinburgh..!Tickets at: theportobellobookshop.com/ev…
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20 Nov 2024
From today, women effectively work for free until the rest of the year due to the gender pay gap.
It’s two days earlier than last year because the gap has grown for the first time since 2013.
We must end the undervaluation of women’s work for good.
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Emily P Webber retweeted
20 Nov 2024
The Durham Miners' Association was founded #OnThisDay in 1869. Pictured is the first generation of the union’s leaders. Within three years of its founding, the DMA had secured the abolition of the detested system of bonded labour and had created the
@DurhamGala. 🧵 (1/4)
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Emily P Webber retweeted
13 Nov 2024
My March #nonfiction Editor's Choices in this week's @thebookseller are by @Moudhy @omarelakkad @LissaKEvans @AdamJFarrer @helen__jukes Sophy Roberts @junesarpong & Jennifer Obidike @mrmarksteel @adellestripe @EPWebber
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6 Nov 2024
Last week it was the 90th anniversary of the first meeting of the Ashington Group. Check out a wonderful new exhibition celebrating these fantastic Pitmen Painters below 👇🏻 (a nice distraction from politics over the pond).
9 Oct 2024
Coalface Drawers is a new exhibition celebrating the early years of the Pitmen Painters.
Watch this short film to see behind the scenes of the exhibition.
vimeo.com/1017850488
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Emily P Webber retweeted
30 Oct 2024
Great to have the excellent @orgreavejustice campaign in Parliament today.
The wait for justice has been far too long.
#fullinquirynow
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Emily P Webber retweeted
30 Oct 2024
Justice for Retired Miners in today's budget. After years of campaigning the Mineworkers Pension Scheme Investment Reserve Fund will be transferred giving retired miners & widows the pension justice they deserve. This is a huge win for our coalfield communities.#PensionJustice ⚖️
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22 Oct 2024
Wonderful to see @durhamcathedral adorned with miners banners from across the coalfield.
The ‘Solidarity Forever’ exhibition opened today, marking 40 years since the Miners' Strike. It runs until November 7.
Here's a selection of the banners on display…
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Emily P Webber retweeted
20 Oct 2024
Remembering #Aberfan 58 years on. ⏰
21.10.1966 144 9.13AM, is made from concrete and corten steel. It contains 144 clocks – the same number of adults and children who died when a colliery spoil tip collapsed into homes and Pantglas Junior School.
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18 Oct 2024
Very excited to dip into the debut poetry collection by @leahlarwood, which I picked up from @bookhive today. Perfect reading for darkening autumnal evenings 🌙 🍂
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18 Oct 2024
Please read our latest report about the urgent need for an #OrgreaveInquiry otjc.org.uk/orgreave-truth-a… Email the Home Secretary:
public.enquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk
coopery@parliament.uk
& your MP. Find your MP here: members.parliament.uk/member…
Draft email here:
otjc.org.uk/write-to-the-hom…
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14 Oct 2024
Today I am remembering David Thomas, my children’s 3 x great grandfather, who died alongside 438 other miners & a rescuer in the Senghenydd explosion on 14 Oct 1913. David left behind a widow, Mary Ann, and 5 children, who had to walk forward into an uncertain future without him.
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11 Oct 2024
Absolutely love the idea of this, and the fact these sounds will be captured and archived for posterity.
Music project captures ‘sound of carbon’ by recording in Durham coalmine theguardian.com/culture/2024…
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30 Sep 2024
A few minutes ago, Unit 4 turbo-generator at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station desynced from the GB grid system, marking the END of electricity generation from COAL after 142 years 🇬🇧🙏🏻 @RobBurnett92 and I present a 🪡🧵on the evolution of coal fired power from 1882 to today 1/n
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30 Sep 2024
Farewell King Coal. Today Britain’s last coal-fired power station will close. While I welcome our turn to greener energy (particularly after decades of importing foreign coal…) it is still a strangely sad moment, marking the end to one hell of a history…
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8 Aug 2024
"I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well!"
Love this woman - interviewed by @novaramedia in Barnsley today ❤️
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