Pitmatic (eBook)

Stories and the Talk of The North East Coalfield

Bill Griffiths (Autor)

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2024
256 Seiten
McNidder and Grace (Verlag)
978-0-85716-273-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Pitmaticbrings together a wonderful regional pit language – its words, jokes and stories that are fast disappearing from our culture. This book helps attest to the remarkable vitality of the region's dialect and the inventiveness and humour of its speakers.
The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmatic will help you to understand the everyday lives and work of miners. Miners who provided fuel, helped sustain an economy, consolidated communities and created a unique and rich regional culture. This book is a joyous celebration of the history of the North East bringing together the words spoken by miners and their families and how they related to the wider languages of the world.

The late Bill Griffiths (1948–2007)was an extraordinary writer and poet: radical, experimental and scholarly, but also had a great sense of humour. He was a wonderful champion of the North East, its people and heritage.
Born in Middlesex, he read history before graduating in 1969. Bill ran his own independent press and published political pamphlets and essays on the arts and poetry. After gaining a PhD in Old English he fled London and settled in Seaham where he embraced the northern way of life.
'He was also a scholar of Old English and dialect who know how to make his work accessible. Private and uncompetitive, he was at least these things: poet, archivist, scholar, translator, prison-rights campaigner, pianist, historian, curator, performer, editor, short-story writer, essayist, teacher, book-maker and lyricist… The Saturday before he died, Bill discharged himself from hospital to host the Dialect Day at the Morden Tower in Newcastle upon Tyne. He died as he lived: cataloguing, awarding Best Dialect prizes, opera on his radio, the poetry paramount.' Obituary, The Independent, 20 September 2007.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2024
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: afterdamp • Anglo-Saxon • Anthracite • anthracosis • arse flap • arse loop • Ashington Collieries Magazine • Automation • banksman • brakesman • Chaldron • chokedamp • coal • coalfield • coal mine • coal production • coal seam • Coke • davy lamp • Dawdon Colliery • dialect words • Drainage • Easington Colliery • English Journey • Firedamp • Gateshead • Geordie • Great North Coalfield • haulage engine • health and safety • hewing • hoggers • Humour • industrial history. • iron • J.B. Priestley • Keelmen • lead mine • lignite • marra • methane • miners • miners’ strike • Mining • Mining History • national union of mineworkers • Newcastle upon Tyne • Newcastle Weekly Chronicle • Norse • North East coal mining communities • North East culture • north east dialect • Northumberland and Durham Coalfield • Northumberland Coal Owners’ Association • North Walbottle Pit • pit language • Pitmatic • Ponies • Putting • railway engines • Safety lamp • Scottish • sea coal • Seaham Colliery • shot firer • shot firing • Social History • steam engine • Stories • Strikes • The Battle of Orgreave • the officials • The Pit • the shaft • Trapper • Tyneside • Underground • ventilation • wagonway • Wearside • winding tower • Work Practices
• ISBN-10: 0-85716-273-X / 085716273X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85716-273-1 / 9780857162731