[IER] FREE: In conversation with Huw Beynon: The shadow of the mine

Wed Jul 21 15:33:25 BST 2021

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FREE: In conversation with Huw Beynon - The Shadow of the mine 

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Thursday 29 July 2021 – 6pm

FREE 

About this event

An in conversation event in which IER experts discuss the recently published book The shadow of the mine, with one of its authors Huw Beynon.

The publication, which will be offered half price to all attendees of the event, tells the story of King Coal in its heyday – and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed.

No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight, too. In the 1980s, the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Defeat foretold the death of their industry. Tens of thousands were cast onto the labour market with a minimum amount of advice and support.

Today, British politics all of a sudden revolves around the coalfield constituencies which lent their votes to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in 2019. Even in the Welsh Valleys, where the “red wall” still stands, support for the Labour Party has halved in a generation.

Huw Beynon and his co-author, Ray Hudson, draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them in their new book  <https://www.versobooks.com/books/3791-the-shadow-of-the-mine> The shadow of the mine.

Speakers

The event will be chaired by our Director Carolyn Jones.

Prof Huw Beynon, Author

Prof Keith Ewing, IER President

Lord John Hendy QC, IER Chairperson

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