IAN SINCLAIR reviews new releases from The Beaches, CMAT and Katheleen Edwards
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Capital support in every sense for miners during 1984-85 strike
A ‘Right To Work’ Rally by miners at the Nottinghamshire NUM Headquarters, Mansfield, in May 1984
RICHARD MURGATROYD is intrigued by a study that asks why the ability to diagnose outstrips the ability to cure
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
London and the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike
Edited by David Featherstone and Diarmaid Kelliher
THIS fascinating and well-edited collection of oral histories focuses on the role London and Londoners played in solidarity efforts to support striking communities in the 1984-5 miners’ strike.
Trade unionists, council workers, political activists, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and many others all came out in support and this rather eclectic mix made for some novel experiences — George Binette recalls the "culture shock" for some visiting London for the first time, while Mike Jackson of LGSM remembers the initial "trepidation" of bringing Geordie lads to a warehouse party.
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