SWAPC Pit Camp 1993

Book Available from 28 November!: ‘You Can’t Kill the Spirit: the untold story of the women who set up camp to stop pit closures, 1993’.

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BOOK LAUNCH!: This Sunday, 13 January, 4.30pm. Waterstones Book Shop (upstairs in the cafe area - refreshments available 4-4.30pm), Orchard Square, Sheffield S1 2FB. Please come and celebrate the publication of our book, and share your stories with us!

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BOOK LAUNCH: 13 January 2019, 4.30pm, Waterstones, Orchard Square Sheffield S1 2FB.

'You Can't Kill the Spirit' will be launched on the anniversary of the setting up of the pit camp at Houghton Main. We will also celebrate all seven pit camps. The book will be available to buy.

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'You Can't Kill the Spirit' is out now! If you're in Sheffield you can buy it for £12 at Weston Park Museum, or for £10 at Dina (32 Cambridge Street). Alternatively email: [email protected] for a copy (£12 inc. p&p). Wider availability coming soon!

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Keep on an eye on this account and @SOASheffield for announcements of a book launch event and for other ways to buy the book.

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We are excited to announce the publication of 'You can't kill the spirit: the untold story of the women who set up camp to stop pit closures' on 28 November! It recounts the story of the pit camp set up at Houghton Main by Sheffield Women Against Pit Closures in 1993.

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Copies of the book will be available for £12 from SWAPC. Just email [email protected]. It will also be on sale at the exhibition launch of 'Who We Are: Photographs by Martin Jenkinson' on 28 November at Weston Park Museum for a special price of £10.

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This project, ‘You Can’t Kill the Spirit: Stories from Houghton Main Pit Camp, 1993’, will tell these stories. (5/5)

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The stories of these women have never been fully told. (4/5)

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Day and night for five months, the pit camp was staffed by miners’ wives, partners and supporters. (3/5)

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Sheffield Women Against Pit Closures (SWAPC), local women and the NUM branch established a pit camp at Houghton Main in protest. (2/5)

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Seven pit camps were set up in 1993 in response to the announcement by the Government in October 1992, to close 31 deep mines. (1/5)