'WE LEARNT so much in this, our struggle, and we know now that it is the same struggle as many others, against racism, for minority groups, against nuclear weapons and against the racist regime in South Africa; but the list is endless. They are all just Reviewed by Mary Donnelly These are some of the Doreen and Pauline came to as aresull oriz monuis deep involvement Echoed, am sure, by thousands of women in the mining communities.
Shifting Horizons tells of the wav in women from the Notts pit village Blidworth changed during that momentous vcar. The story unfolds in their own WOTOs.
It begins with memories of their childhood and growing up years in mining communities Continuing through the early years of marriage and family problems, the story takes us to the leading to the count of the year of the miners' strike shows the development of their own increasing. finally deep and full-time, commitment to the cause.
There are touching and painful moments of raucous nOur Above all, however, the evidence ot courage and endurance comes through, tremendous widening of horizons and a growing search for more knowledge and understandin the changing roles in the family develop the
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examples of working class people struggling for an equal chance out of life'