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Pitted against injustice
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Queens of the Coal Age
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
ONE of the lasting legacies of the 1984-85 miners’ strike is the liberation of women in mining communities across the country. Grandmothers, mothers, wives and partners of miners recognised this dispute was very different from the struggles of the past — it was a battle for their communities’ very existence.
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