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Oct 22, 2024 | 
novaramedia.com | Ewan Gibbs
At this year’s general election, Labour stood on a manifesto pledge to “make Britain a clean energy superpower”. The party promised to renew job opportunities and communities across the country, particularly the former centres of heavy industry that have suffered the collapse of coal-mining, steelmaking and engineering, along with areas that have borne a decade of decline in the oil and gas industry. This had been on the cards for a while.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
businessgreen.com | Freddie Daley |Ewan Gibbs
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | Freddie Daley |Ewan Gibbs
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
techxplore.com | Freddie Daley |Ewan Gibbs
At the end of September, the UK's last remaining coal power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will be retired. The closure of the plant should—and will—be celebrated by environmentalists, as the move away from coal has made Britain's electricity much cleaner over the past decade. It is on this basis that the UK claims climate leadership. In the 1950s, coal provided the overwhelming majority of British energy, and as recently as 2012 it still generated 40%.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Freddie Daley |Ewan Gibbs
At the end of September, the UK’s last remaining coal power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will be retired. The closure of the plant should – and will – be celebrated by environmentalists, as the move away from coal has made Britain’s electricity much cleaner over the past decade. It is on this basis that the UK claims climate leadership. In the 1950s, coal provided the overwhelming majority of British energy, and as recently as 2012 it still generated 40%.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ewan Gibbs
BOOK REVIEW 20th century Britain: Economic, cultural and social change, third edition. Nicole Robertson, John Singleton, and Avram Taylor (eds.), (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. pp. 402. 70B/W illustrations ISBN 9780367426569, Pbk. £33.99) First published: 29 August 2024 No abstract is available for this article.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Ewan Gibbs
“I’m a working-class bloke leading a trade union dispute about jobs, pay and conditions of service.” These were the words that Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), used to rebuke Good Morning Britain television show presenter Richard Madeley in June 2022. It was one of several high-profile interviews that marked the beginning of Britain’s first national rail strike since 1989.
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May 29, 2024 | 
tribunemag.co.uk | Ewan Gibbs
On 30 January 2024 a rare unanimity was evidenced at the Scottish Parliament. Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) gathered to debate a motion brought by Richard Leonard, Labour MSP for the Central Region, to remember miners’ leader Michael ‘Mick’ McGahey on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his passing. The motion was signed by representatives from the Scottish National Party, the Scottish Greens, and the Liberal Democrats.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ewan Gibbs
Betty Hunter comes from a long mining lineage in Cardenden, west Fife. In this photograph, taken by the artist Nicky Bird in 2023, she stares into the camera with a determined look. At first glance, Hunter seems to be in crowded room. But the illusion is only temporary: she is in fact alone here, the men behind her themselves only photographs captured many decades earlier. In the photograph to the right of Hunter stand two workers who have ascended to the surface via lift.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ewan Gibbs
Betty Hunter comes from a long mining lineage in Cardenden, west Fife. In this photograph, taken by the artist Nicky Bird in 2023, she stares into the camera with a determined look. At first glance, Hunter seems to be in crowded room. But the illusion is only temporary: she is in fact alone here, the men behind her themselves only photographs captured many decades earlier. In the photograph to the right of Hunter stand two workers who have ascended to the surface via lift.
