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Life in the early 20th-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their coal miner husbands. Their working hours continued to be longer than the eight-hour days spent down the pit by the miners. Living conditions continued to deteriorate and further challenges to their home-making skills were presented by lack of investment by the coal owners in failing to provide the basics of clean water and sewerage...
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The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and the pits, and men who worked in the coal-mining industry during the Victorian period. There has been very little written about the importance of the home life that supported the miners – their wives who through heroic efforts, did their best to provide attractive, healthy, happy homes for her husband, in...
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