I’m writing this article on March 3, 2015. Yesterday, I lost my job. The company I work for is closing down and although I’ve been there for a long time – 16 years in fact, as a copywriter – I will soon punch out my final...
Read MoreRed Ladder might have lost all of its Arts Council funding but the Leeds-based theatre company is still standing strong. Its latest work, We’re Not Going Back, focuses on the year-long Miners’ Strike but, according to the...
Read MoreBilly Elliot was very deliberately set against the backdrop of the mid-80s miners’ strike, one of the most notoriously bitter confrontations in recent labour history, lest you might have overlooked or forgotten that fact in the...
Read MoreIt’s 30 years since Yorkshire was torn apart during the year-long miners’ strike. Now that anniversary is being marked by the Ilkley Film Festival. On September 7 the festival is staging a one day Mining Visions: The Miners’...
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