London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1986. Signed by Peter Townsend to front end paper - otherwise 'fine'. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 196pp. Six months after the miners' strike of 1984-5, the author visited the north-east of England where he interviewed people on both sides of the dispute - miners, their wives, Union officials, policemen, shopkeepers, young people, Coal Board officials, schoolteachers and many others. This vivid social documents sets out their words. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

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Bookseller: Godley Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 012884
Title: Red Hill: A Mining Community
Author: Parker, Tony
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0434577715
ISBN 13: 9780434577712
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1986
Keywords: Miners' Strike, 1984-5, North-east England, Politics
Bookseller catalogs: Social History; Mining;
Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches

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