In case any book reading Tynesiders happen to be passing through -

At 7pm on Tuesday 6th July at The Irish Centre, Newcastle (opposite St James Metro) Dave Douglass introduces GHOST DANCERS, the final volume his mining trilogy, launched to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike. Dave Douglass is a long-standing and well-known member of the National Union of Mineworkers in the Durham and Doncaster coalfields and was a coalminer for 40-plus years Hence this is a first-person, insider's view, of, probably, the last generation of miners and their union. It explores the great coal strike of 1984/85 and the background to it and explodes the prevailing myths around that epic period, and corrects the inaccuracies in dozens of previous books on the subject. It also uniquely deals with the post strike period.In relating these events Dave has not sought to exclude those smaller, more personal aspects that intersect this trajectory and link the personal to the political, the major to the minor.