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Emily P Webber
@EPeirsonWebber
Historian, writer & life-long lefty. Knows more about coal mining than most mums on the playground. Rep'd by the lovely @KayPeddle @colwillpeddle
Oct 9, 2020 • 20 tweets • 12 min read
1/20 Hello, I’m a PhD student @UniRdg_History, @UniofExeter funded by @SWWDTP, researching the British mining industry, through oral history. I will discuss the ‘hidden landscape’ of the pit, how miners navigated this & how it permeated workers’ bodies & minds #HiddenLandscapes Title slide ‘it was like hell’ an exploration of the exp 2/20 In 'The Mineshaft' (1922) pitman poet A.E. Tomlinson described finding ‘Hell’s own image in a Durham mine.’ One saying was that God made the world but the Devil made coal, and hid it in the earth, to drive men mad seeking it #HiddenLandscapes