The History of the Somerset Miners

The History of the Somerset Miners by Dave Chapple.

Coffee Morning – Saturday 11th November, 10:00am – 12 noon, The Portway Annexe, BA5 2QF. Free.

Dave’s talk will cover the extent of the Somerset Coalfield, the particular conditions in which miners worked there, the hundred and one years of Somerset Coal miners’ trades unions, their struggles to seek socialist solutions to their industrial problems, and aspects of a peculiar coalfield working-class culture.

Dave is secretary of Bridgwater and Mendip Trades Union Councils. He has written and published seven books of working-class history and autobiography and is a member of the Writers Guild.

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