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B L Coombes
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Author : Bill Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2017-05-15
B L Coombes written by Bill Jones and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
B L Coombes
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Author : BILL. WILLIAMS JONES (CHRIS.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-15
B L Coombes written by BILL. WILLIAMS JONES (CHRIS.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with categories.
A comprehensive study of the life and work of Bertie Coombs, writer of fiction and non-fiction material, born in Herefordshire, who followed a career in coal mining, and who through his short stories and articles portrayed the hardship and comradeship of the South Wales mining community. New Edition. Originally Published in 1999.
With Dust Still In His Throat
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Author : Chris Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-15
With Dust Still In His Throat written by Chris Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-15 with Coal miners categories.
'The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this description.' At the end of a detailed, seemingly dispassionate, description of a shift underground, Bert Coombes felt compelled to tell his readers why he had become a writer. Expressed here in characteristic style, with direct prose and use of everyday language and imagery, his convictions and fundamental purpose in writing remained guiding principles throughout his life and literary career. His work received widespread praise from critics such as J. B. Priestley and Cyril Connolly for its accessibility, authenticity and humanity. This anthology represents four types of writing - all published here for the first time: autobiography; the short story; the novel; and the diary. His clear and unsentimental eye allowed Coombes to observe the regular pattern and rhythm of life and to appreciate the way in which on any day there would have to be a consideration of matters relating to work, to politics, to domestic and personal issues, to the weather and world of nature, and to enriching diversions such his beloved violin. His vision is essentially one of balance and normality and through it we begin to understand how this society survived, how its citizens were not the stage army of historians, but real men and women.
Miner S Day
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Author : B. L. Coombes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10
Miner S Day written by B. L. Coombes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with categories.
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.
These Poor Hands
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Author : Bill Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2002-11-09
These Poor Hands written by Bill Jones and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales', was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of 'proletarian writers'. B. L. Coombes, an English-born migrant, had lived in the Vale of Neath since before the First World War, but only turned to writing in the 1930s as a way of communicating the plight of the miners and their communities to the wider world. "These Poor Hands" presents, in a documentary style, the working life of the miner as well as the author's experiences in the lock-outs of 1921 and 1926. It demonstrates Coombes' desire to offer an accurate account of the lives of miners and their families, and carries a sincere moral charge in its description of the waste of human potential that is industrial capitalism in decline. Long out of print, "These Poor Hands" has been recognised for over sixty years as the classic miner's autobiography.
Writers Of Wales
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Writers Of Wales written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Useful Toil
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Author : Proffessor John Burnett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Useful Toil written by Proffessor John Burnett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with History categories.
Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and beliefs. Burnett's broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualise the wealth of material. These stories provide the antithesis of `great name' history, yet they constantly touch on human experiences that are timeless and universal.
These Poor Hands The Autobiography Of A Miner Working In South Wales
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Author : B. L. Coombes
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2011-12-05
These Poor Hands The Autobiography Of A Miner Working In South Wales written by B. L. Coombes and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Coombes' title These Poor Hands first published in 1939, was an instant best-seller, catapulting the author to the forefront of proletarian writers. Coombes was born in England, but he lived for a large part of his in the Vale of Neath, South Wales, and as the economic problems of the 30s worsened, he turned to writing as a way to spread the news of the plight of miners and their communities to the wider world. He presented the daily life of miners in documentary fashion, with special attention to the damaging lockouts of 1921 and 1926, These Poor Hands retains the power to astonish readers with its description of the ways that unfettered capitalism can lay waste to pure human potential.
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language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Our Mothers Land
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Author : Angela V John
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Our Mothers Land written by Angela V John and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Social Science categories.
This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of this groundbreaking book. It reflects the pioneering research of its contributors to the development of modern Welsh women’s history. The eight chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working class women’s community sanctions and the perils facing collier’s wife to the very different lifestyles of ironmasters’ wives. They also tackle the idealised images of respectable Welsh women in periodicals and the tragic reality of those who took their own lives as well as showing us the transgressive actions of suffrage rebels. They examine how women carved out space within movements such as temperance and track the fluctuating fortunes of women’s employment and domestic life from the Great War to the eve of the Second World War. This volume makes available once more a book that has become a classic in its field and a vital part of the historiography of modern Wales. This expanded edition also brings us up to date. It reveals the research and publications of the last two decades and comments upon the extent to which Wales has moved beyond being the familiar ‘land of our fathers’. Written in a lively and accessible style, it nevertheless draws upon a wealth of research and expertise and should appeal to both the academic community and to a much wider readership.