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Welcome to "Nottingham Books",
the online shopping facility of The Bookcase,
Nottingham's premier independent bookshop.
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This site is dedicated to books relating to Nottinghamshire - books about the county, its towns and people, books written by Nottinghamshire authors and books produced by our own publishing arm, Bookcase Editions, all with a local connection.
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| We regularly feature Special Offers,and NEW for 2010, a Book of the Week. |
This week twenty six years ago saw the start of the National Miners’ Strike, so it seems appropriate to have Memories of the Nottinghamshire Coalfields by David Bell as our Book of the Week.
In this, ex-miners relate their experiences of working in the local pits and describe the conditions they had to face and some of the disasters that occurred. The book includes many old photographs, a map of the county’s coalfields and a chart of the local pits showing how many miners each one employed. There is also one chapter devoted to the strike of 1984-85.
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Price £8.99 Our Price £6.99
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For those of you particularly interested in the history of the coal mining industry, may we also recommend Nine Days That Shook Mansfield by Barry Johnson.
This is a fascinating and detailed account of the events and conditions in Mansfield during the earlier 1926 General Strike, a strike, which in this area, was inevitably bound up in the mining dispute of the time.
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We believe we have the best collection of Nottinghamshire books in print, but if we haven't listed what you want, please don't hesitate to contact us.
You can order books online and we will post your order to you, or if you prefer, you can place an order and then collect from the shop at 50 Main Street, Lowdham.
The Bookcase is "More than just a bookshop"..... Find out more about us at www.thebookcase.co.uk |
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