The Miners' Strike (Harvey Mark)(Paperback)

The Miners' Strike (Harvey Mark)(Paperback)

In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coal miners' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds of communities, battled to prevent the

Darkness, Darkness - (Resnick 12) (Harvey John)(Paperback / softback)

Thirty years ago, the Miners' Strike threatened to tear the country apart, turning neighbour against neighbour, husband against wife, father against son - enmities which smoulder still. Resnick, recently made up to inspector, and ambivalent at best about some of the police tactics, had run an

V. (Harrison Tony)(Paperback)

Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book-length poem, he confronts the foul-mouthed skinhead thug responsible, who becomes a foil for his own anger and

GB84 (Peace David (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people. This book presents a fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's

Miners Against Fascism: Wales and the Spanish Civil War (Francis Hywel)(Paperback)

Welsh miners made up one of the largest contingents within the British Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Coming from the valleys all across South Wales, they brought with them a political tradition unique in Britain in its combination of trade union militancy,

The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (Guinier Lani)(Paperback)

Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual

Scorpion's Strike: Empire X (Riches Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

The tenth instalment of the bestselling Empire Series, which sees Marcus Aquila on a mission to Gaul where a bandit turns out to be a dangerous

Climate Emergency: How Societies Create the Crisis (Harvey Mark)(Paperback)

The recognition that climate change is now a climate emergency has been endorsed by a wide range of scientists and the United Nations. Natural scientists focus on the aggregate impacts of human activity resulting from burning fossil fuels and producing food, and hence speak of anthropogenic climate

Those Dirty Miners - A History of the Kent Coalfield (Hollingsworth J. P.)(Paperback / softback)

Social Justice and the City (Harvey David)(Paperback)

Throughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship between politics, capitalism, and the social aspects of geographical theory. Laying out Harvey's position that geography could not remain objective in the face of urban poverty and

Global Strike - A Strike Back Novel (3) (Ryan Chris)(Paperback / softback)

The third book in the Strikeback

A Companion to Marx's Capital: The Complete Edition (Harvey David)(Paperback)

Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century (Phillips Jim)(Paperback)

Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal miner Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners

Germinal (Zola Emile)(Paperback)

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted Germinal!

The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World (Reynolds Andrew)(Paperback)

Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. Featuring LGBTQ icons from America to

Toscanini: Musician of Conscience (Sachs Harvey)(Paperback)

Harvey Sachs's 'monumental' (Alex Ross) biography recounts the sixty-eight-year career of conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), an artist celebrated for his fierce dedication, photographic memory, explosive temper, impassioned performances, and uncompromising work ethic. Toscanini collaborated

The Miner's Wife (Allen Diane)(Paperback)

Seventeen-year-old Meg Oversby often dreams of a more exciting life than the dull existence she faces at her family's farm deep in the Yorkshire Dales. Growing up, she's always sensed her father's disappointment at not having a son to help with the farm work. So when Meg dances all night at the

The Empire Strikes Back (Harrison Rebecca)(Paperback)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the second film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is often cited as the 'best' and most popular Star Wars movie. In her compelling study, Rebecca Harrison draws on previously unpublished archival research to reveal a variety of original and often surprising

Strike! (Brecher Jeremy)(Paperback)

Jeremy Brecher's Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with

The Coalminers of Durham (Emery Norman)(Paperback)

Including first-hand accounts and images of the great pit disasters that befell Durham's miners, this title details both the technological and the human face of the mining

The Methuen Book of Monologues for Young Actors (Harvey Anne)(Paperback)

Selected by Anne Harvey, an experienced actress, director, writer and adjudicator, these dramatic monologues are suitable for performance at auditions, solo acting classes, festivals and examinations. Ranging from early Elizabethan to contemporary literature, the pieces are varied in content, tone

The Miner's Girl (Hope Maggie)(Paperback)

A terrible choice between her sweetheart and her reputation... Orphaned from birth, Mary Trent has always dreamed of the day she can escape from poverty, and when she meets the dashing young doctor Tom Gallagher, it seems her prayers have been answered. But an untimely pregnancy spells disaster and

Circle of Death - A Strike Back Novel (5) (Ryan Chris)(Paperback / softback)

The fifth book in the bestselling Strike Back series by SAS hero Chris

Ways of the World (Harvey David)(Paperback / softback)

The essential anthology of writings by the world's leading Marxist