Miner's Day, with Rhondda images by Isabel Alexander

B L Coombes author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Parthian Books

Published:28th Oct '21

Should be back in stock very soon

Miner's Day, with Rhondda images by Isabel Alexander cover

'Coombes and Alexander each had a passion to show the real life of coalmining communities to a wide public, Coombes through words and Alexander through pictures. Coalmining was veiled more opaquely than almost any other sector from the view of educated people and metropolitan elites. Many of its particularities, literally hidden below ground, were unimaginable to outsiders who had never contemplated what it might be like to spend the day in darkness, to labour in a space no higher than a dining chair, to bear the daily crush of fear that a husband or father might not come home from work, or to suffer injustices of wage cuts, industrial disease and injury.' From the introduction by Peter Wakelin

Edited with an introduction by Peter Wakelin. Part of the Modern Wales series. Originally published in 1945, Miner's Day tells of the coalmining life of the thirties in south Wales.

ISBN: 9781913640385

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144 pages