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Reckoning at Eagle Creek
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Jeff Biggers |
"Award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us on a journey into the secret history of coal mining in the American heartland. Set in the ruins of his family's strip-mined home… |
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A blast from the past
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Andrew Paterson |
"Andra McAnulty spent his whole life campaigning for better working/living conditions for the less well off members of society. After he and his family were involved in The Blantyre Pit Disaster, whi… |
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SURVIVING ABERFAN
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STEVE HUMPHRIES |
On 21 October 1966, thousands of tonnes of coal tip waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass crashed through the local school and 144 people were ki… |
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The small mine
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Menna Gallie |
First published in 1962, this novel tells the tale of a young collier's death in a mining accident in Cilhendre, a fictional industrial village in the south Wales Valleys. The story vividly and sympa… |
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The Breaker Whistle Blows
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Ellis Wynne Roberts |
In this volume the breaker whistle is the symbol for recalling some selected highlights of the anthracite coal era, a period of about 100 years between the Avondale Mining Disaster in 1869 and the Kn… |
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Oneness
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Dean Cotton,DEAN COTTON,LORENA COTTON |
This is a story/tribute to the author's grandparents, Luciano and Angiolina Galletti. |
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