Tag: Miners’ Strike

Review: From a Rock to a Hard Place by Beverley Trounce

Posted by Damon Fairclough | Mar 13, 2015 | Authors & Reviews, Blasts from the Furnace, Books, Northern Soul writes... |

I’m writing this article on March 3, 2015. Yesterday, I lost my job. The company I work for...

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Pride: retelling the miners’ strike in tooth and claw

Posted by Kevin Bourke | Aug 21, 2014 | Arts, Cinema |

Billy Elliot was very deliberately set against the backdrop of the mid-80s miners’ strike, one of...

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Mining Visions of Strife at Ilkley Film Festival

Posted by Paul Clarke | Aug 20, 2014 | Arts, Cinema |

It’s 30 years since Yorkshire was torn apart during the year-long miners’ strike. Now that...

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Red Ladder: the next step

Posted by Paul Clarke | Aug 7, 2014 | Arts, Theatre |

Red Ladder might have lost all of its Arts Council funding but the Leeds-based theatre company is...

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