The best movies directed by British filmmaker Michael Apted include the Up series, Gorillas in the Mist, and Coal Miner's ...

With his arms rested on his waist, the deity-like miner uses his helmet ... employs about 12,000 people as coal miners—down from more than 64,000 in the 1970s. The effects extend far beyond ...

Unlike women who worked in urban factories and lived in tenements, coal miner's wives lived at their ... interviewed during an oral history project in the 1970s, remembered women wielding guns ...

The production will be titled Coal Miner’s Daughter, nodding to Lynn’s iconic 1970s song and studio album. “We are over the moon about this broadway show portraying mom’s life,” Lynn’s ...

There's no denying it: the 1970s were one of country music's best decades. Artists like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Conway Twitty, and Loretta Lynn were all at the height of their powers ...

Ron "Ginger" Parsons, from Cwm, near Ebbw Vale, started in the pit just before his 14th birthday and spent 50 years working at the coal face ... all around" In the mid-1970s Ginger nearly died ...

A former coal miner is looking for a public space to take his private collection of mining memorabilia. Roger Monks, 86, started work at Allerton Bywater Colliery in Castleford aged 15 and retired ...