Christmas is almost here! 🎄 Artist Tom Lamb crafted this beautiful Christmas card, featuring a hand-painted watercolour illustration of a miner's lamp adorned with a sprig of holly. © Tom Lamb, NCMME Collection

40 years ago #OTD it was the best-named benefit concert of the miners’ strike - led by Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners #LGSM

Very excited for this on 5 March 2025 at The Portobello Bookshop in glorious Edinburgh. Tickets at: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/emily-p-webber-mining-men

Today is St Barbara’s day - patron saint of miners ⛏️

Lovely research trip to the seaside today - hard to beat this view…

Feels nice to be trying something new, and hopefully better - blue skies ahead… My potted bio: I’m a historian of modern Britain, with a passion for the British mining industry. Also mum to two under 10s, and a part-time charity worker for Headway NW. Former Research Manager of Imperial War Museum.