Miner's Day - Rhondda Images by Isabel Alexander

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae Miner's Day , a gyhoeddwyd yn wreiddiol yn 1945, yn adrodd hanes bywyd glofaol yn ne Cymru yn ystod y 1930au. Golygwyd y gyfrol a cheir cyflwyniad gan Peter Wakelin. Rhan o'r gyfres Modern Wales .

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Edited with an introduction by Peter Wakelin. Part of the Modern Wales series and originally published in 1945, Miner's Day tells of the coalmining life of the thirties in south Wales.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Bertie Louis Coombes, or B. L. Coombes (1893–1974), was a Welsh coalminer, notable for his autobiography These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner in South Wales (1939) which became an instant bestseller. He also produced short stories, dramas and other autobiographical works about the lives of coalminers and the communities in which they lived.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

'Coombes and Alexander each had a passion to show the real life of coalmining communities to a wide public, Coombes through words and Alexander through pictures. Coalmining was veiled more opaquely than almost any other sector from the view of educated people and metropolitan elites. Many of its particularities, literally hidden below ground, were unimaginable to outsiders who had never contemplated what it might be like to spend the day in darkness, to labour in a space no higher than a dining chair, to bear the daily crush of fear that a husband or father might not come home from work, or to suffer injustices of wage cuts, industrial disease and injury.' From the introduction by Peter Wakelin