Backbone of the Nation - Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85

A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families

About the author

Robert Gildea is professor emeritus of modern history at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Fighters in the Shadows, Empires of the Mind, and the Wolfson Prize-winning Marianne in Chains.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Gildea, Gildea Robert
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9780300266580
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26658-0
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Oral History, European History, Midlands, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Wales, South Wales, Trade Unions, British & Irish history, North & North East England, Social and cultural history, Central Scotland, North West England, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, North and North East England, Strikes, Mining Industry, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history, Extractive industries, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions