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Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The women's work
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With the Great War still raw in the memory and life in the 1920s mining village of Whitton Grange hard and dangerous, Louie Kirkup dreams of a better future. Bu