Book Reading (Part 2.)
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Dave Douglass read from his new book Ghost Dancers.

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The title of this work, Ghost Dancers, is inspired by the last stand of the Native American Indians in their efforts to retain their culture and dignity, and by the Durham MinersâÃô Gala as a mining equivalent of that same endeavour. The book records the last stand of the last generation of pitmen and their communities.

Ghost Dancers is the final volume in Dave Douglass's mining trilogy Stardust and Coaldust, published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the end of the miners strike. A first-person, insiders view of, probably, the last generation of miners and their union. Following on Camerons description of a broken Britain this book comes close to describing who broke it and how.
David Douglass is a long-standing and well-known member of the National Union of Mineworkers in the Durham and Doncaster coalfields. He was a coalminer for 40-plus years and a branch official of the Union for 25 years, as well as a member of its Yorkshire Executive during its most testing and dynamic period. He remains a full member of the NUM and is still active in the internal affairs of the Union, as well as being one of its more public and well-known representatives and a published author and historian of the coal communities.

Published by Christie Books

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