North and South
Raphael Samuel, 22 June 1995
Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village
by Mark Hudson.
Cape, 320 pp., £16.99, October 1994,0 224 04170 3 Show More
by Mark Hudson.
Cape, 320 pp., £16.99, October 1994,
“... process. The Labour Movement itself (with a capital ‘L’ and a capital ‘M’, as Arthur Henderson, a County Durham architect of the modern Labour Party, once put it) is no more than a ghostly presence. The Durham Miners’ Gala, to which Hudson devotes two set-piece descriptions, has shrunk to a shadow of its former self. Horden colliery closed in ... ”