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  • Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century

    Hannah's Daughter

    by Margaret Hedley ...
    Series Book 2 - Women of the Durham Coalfield
    Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The women's working days were much longer than the miners, who typically worked an 8-hour shift. Their living conditions were poor and lack of investment by the coal owners greatly challenged their homemaking skills as they faced life without many basics, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield

    Hannah's Granddaughter

    by Margaret Hedley ...
    Series Book 3 - Women of the Durham Coalfield
    'As this book shows, the women of the Durham coalfield played an equal role in shaping daily life and trajectories of history in the region, just as women today are building their own futures in communities around the world.' - Hillary Rodham ClintonThe Second World War took its toll on every part of society. The appeal for women to work outside the home in the ammunition factories supporting the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century

    Hannah's Story

    by Margaret Hedley ...
    Series Book 1 - Women of the Durham Coalfield
    The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and the pits, and men who worked in the coal-mining industry during the Victorian period. There has been very little written about the importance of the home life that supported the miners - their wives who, through heroic efforts, did their best to provide ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Please, Mister Postman

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    The award-winning autobiography from the British politician and author of the Sunday Times bestseller, This Boy.In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief after the tensions of Notting Hill, ... Read more

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  • Start the Car

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    Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of "Bumble", the legendary SkySports cricket commentator who's one ball short of an over and delivers madcap moments galore in this ebullient, endearing and hilarious book.David "Bumble" Lloyd is a legend in our living rooms, a genuine "good bloke" all cricket fans feel they know inside out because of his infectious, larger-than-life personality and that ... Read more

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  • Out of the Woods But Not Over the Hill

    by Gervase Phinn ...
    For Gervase Phinn growing old is not about a leisurely walk to the pub for a game of dominoes or snoozing in his favourite armchair. As this sparkling collection of his very best humorous writing shows, he may be ‘out of the woods’ but he is certainly not ‘over the hill’. Looking back over more than sixty years of family life, teaching, inspecting schools, writing and public speaking, Gervase ... Read more

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  • Exceeding My Brief

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  • The Biscuit Girls

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    Ivy, Dulcie, Barbara, Ann, Dorothy and Jean all had different reasons for applying to work at Carr’s biscuits, but once they had put on their overalls and walked through the factory gates they discovered a community full of life, laughter and friendship.To those who didn’t know, the biscuit factory that towered over Carlisle might look like just another slice of the industrial North, a noisy and ... Read more

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  • Mark Steel’s In Town

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  • Ww2 Through the Eyes of a Child

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