Saturday 7 June 2008
The Pitmen Painters
Some long-overdue attention to the pitmen painters, who, with the pitmen poets, the brass and silver bands, the Miners’ Lodge Libraries, the Workers’ Educational Association, and such much else, made up that civilised and civilising world destroyed by the most philistine Prime Minister until Tony Blair.
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I think we should travel down from durham and see the play.
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You ought to have a link to the Lit and Phil on your web page to celebrate its work and that of the Miners Institute
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