WOMEN OF THE DURHAM COALFIELD: HANNAHS DAUGHTER

Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. Their living conditions were poor and lack of investment by the coal owners greatly challenged their homemaking skills as they faced life without many basics, such as clean water and sewerage systems. They also had to cope with demands put upon their families by the First World War, which highlighted the importance of solidarity, a feature of mining communities that had proved itself to be at the heart of colliery village life.