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2 unusual facts about Robert Colls


Robert Colls

The Pitmen of the Northern Coalfield 1790-1850 (1987) tried to bring the miners into the orbit of E P Thompson’s path-breaking The Making of the English Working Class.

He was born in South Shields in 1949 where he attended Laygate Lane Junior School and the Grammar Technical School for Boys.



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