From a Rock to a Hard Place

The 1984/85 Miners' Strike

Beverley Trounce

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English

The History Press Ltd
01 April 2024

Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Industrialisation & industrial history; Strikes; Trade unions

Memories from the Miners' Strike, forty years on.

By the end of the notorious 1984/85 miners' strike many wanted to forget their painful experiences. Forty years on people are ready to look back and talk about what happened in England during this defining moment of industrial action. Beverley Trounce, who worked in a pit village and whose father was a miner, has interviewed a number of the people directly affected by the strike. Her research covers the pickets, the collieries, the matter of simple survival through the extreme and grinding poverty of the time, the effects on the women and children involved and the wider community, as well as the aftermath and what its legacy means to people today.

AUTHOR: Beverley Trounce is a qualified librarian and archivist. Her father was a miner. During the 1980s she worked in a coal-mining area in Nottinghamshire where she witnessed the hardships endured by miners. She helped to organise fund-raising events and the subject has always remained close to her heart. She lives in Hove.

110 b/w illustrations

By: Beverley Trounce
Imprint: The History Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781803994659
ISBN 10: 1803994657
Publication Date: 01 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

BEV TROUNCE is a qualified librarian and archivist. Her father was a miner. During the 1980s she worked in a coal-mining area in Nottinghamshire where she witnessed the hardships endured by miners. She helped to organise fund-raising events and the subject has always remained close to her heart. She lives in Sussex.

Reviews for From a Rock to a Hard Place: The 1984/85 Miners' Strike

""This book is full of memories. Dip inside and you'll find compelling recollections on every page. It isn't solely about first-person memoir - Trounce knits the narrative together neatly, not skimping on facts but never dawdling over a surfeit of detail - it's the oral history that lends the book its narrative weight. From the response to a Kent miner who asked his arresting officer why he was being picked up - ""don't worry, I'll think of something"" - to the numerous heartbreaking tales of desperation and disbelief at the bitterness of the battles, it's a story that retains its living spirit while also serving as a relic of the past."" --Northern Soul