Looking Through
Stone
Award winning poet Susan Ioannou's book of geology, minerology and mining
retlated poetry.
St Patrick's Night Newcastle
Upon Tyne 17th March.
St Pat's night on Tyneside generally is becoming something of a mini
New Years Eve, with the Toon immersing itself full bodied into the festivities
An
unsubstantiated sloppy mish-mash
Weekly Worker 661. David Douglass reviews Ian Hernon's Riot (Pluto Press,
2006, pp320, £19.99)
Let No Wheels Turn
The Wrecking Of The Flying Scotsman.
Margaret Hutcherson.
Queen Coal - Women Of The Miners
Strike
Triona Holden
Hardback £20
Published by Sutton Publishing
The Night Shift
The Night Shift is a collection of six episodes of sit-com from Ian Newton.
It is about the hard and gritty humour of working people who live and
work in the real world, their particular world being the night shift.
Centenary
of struggle
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Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman (eds) Wobblies! A graphic history of the
Industrial Workers of the World Verso, 2005.
Reviewed by Dave Douglass and published in Weekly Worker 592 Thursday
September 15 2005
Strike, not the end
of the story
Dave's latest literary work was researched and written in conjuntion with
an exhibition being added at the National Coal Mining Museum of England.
Starting from the18th century, Dave discusses the major strikes that have
involved mineworkers and their families, culminating with the destruction
of the mining industry and the miners' union at the hands of Thatcher's
Tory party.
Billy Elliot
- The Musical
Dave Douglass, Ian Lavery, (the national president of the National Union
of Mineworkers), along with Keith Stanley, (the president of the Nottingham
area of the NUM and national vice-president of the NUM) made a visit to
the stage musical version of Billy Elliott. Could there be three individuals
that would be harder to impress?
Faith - BBC Drama
Filmed at Hatfield Colliery, Stainforth, Thorne, Moorends, Dunscroft &
Doncaster
Granny Made Me An Anarchist. General Franco, The Angry Brigade, and ME
Dave reviews this book by Stuart Christie which he received this Christmas
A Civil War Without Guns
- 20 years on
From Socialist Publications - Review by Dave Douglass
Interview
with John Summers
This was pointed out to us and we decided it is great interview and well
worth reading.
55° North
Nil Degrees Northern - There is clearly something wrong with the collective
perception of BBC TV programme makers
Fahrenheit 9/11
Dave reviews the film that it is claimed is "exposing the government--and
the Bush crew that runs it"
Britain In Old Photographs
series
The Yorkshire Miners- Brian Elliott
Digging
for inspiration
Weekly Worker 521 Thursday March 25 2004
Mines of information
Review of our Links Page - Weekly Worker 520 Thursday March 18 2004
Recharging
the batteries
Banner Theatre’s national tour - Weekly Worker 519 Thursday March
11 2004
Out of the pits
Review of this web site - Weekly Worker 519 Thursday March 11 2004
Strategic
confrontation in the making
In the first of a series of articles Ian Donovan examines the background
to the miners’ Great Strike - Weekly Worker 519 Thursday March 11
2004
Courageous
class fighters
Phil Hamilton looks at class fighters and the internet - Weekly Worker
518 Thursday March 4 2004
THE MINERS
STRIKE 1984-85
SOCIALIST WORKER SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY ISSUE.
Class
war and damned lies
20th anniversary of the miners’ Great Strike - Two TV programmes
about the strike of 84
The Workers
and The Law
Butterworth's Employment Law Handbook (11 th edition)
Children
of the Dark
Life and death underground in Victoria's England.
The Key
BBC Two's forthcoming working class drama to be
shown this month (Sept 03), in three parts.
True Spies
A belated review of this very strange series - BBC 2 Oct/Nov 2002
Weekly Worker
487 Thursday July 3 2003
Dave reviews Martyn Waites, 'Born under punches'
The English Civil
War Part II
The re-enactment of The Battle of Orgreave
History
of a Southeastern Kentucky Coal Miner
A story from Karlin Ann Eversole-DiMarcello
Veggie World Co. Ltd
Dave gets enthusiastic about this fleshless-fare filled food emporium
Lamps Forever Lit
Bernie Jaworsky chronicles the deaths of 310 men in Kirkland Lake and
area mines from 1914 to 1996
No Logo - "The earth is
not dying it is being killed."
This is taken from first sentence of chapter fourteen of the book No
Logo written by Naomi Klein
Bands and Banners - No.7
A review of this Durham Area National Union of Mineworkers magazine
Pits & Pitmen of
Barnsley
The sad and touching story of the Barnsley coalfield
Durham Miners Millennium
Book
A review of David Temple's book about the story of the Durham miners
Miner's daughters and
miner's sons? - Billy Elliot
Dave Douglass looks at the social, political and sexual values surrounding
real life would-be Billy Elliots and gives us his own thoughts in this,
his review of the film.
Coal was our life
a tight study on a pit town in West Yorkshire, the folk, their aspirations
their lives.
Message Of Despair - Billy
Elliot
Review of Billy Elliot, a film about a 12 year old boy who discovers a
talent for ballet by accident.
Reprinted from Weekly Worker Nov. 23 rd 2000.
Bands and Banners - Summer
2000 - No.6 - £1.95
A review of this Durham Area National Union of Mineworkers magazine
Late Late review
Reviewed by Dave Douglass - Scargill: The Unauthorised Biography, Paul
Routledge
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