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Mark Fellows

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I just finished reading @danswiles brilliant debut, Mercia's Take. As the descendant of a long line of Pelsall and Brownhills miners, it really moved me. Thanks Daniel. theguardian.com/books/2022/f…
Mercia’s Take by Daniel Wiles review – a brilliant debut

Mercia’s Take by Daniel Wiles review – a brilliant debut

The hand-to-mouth life of a 19th-century miner in the Black Country shows the human cost of the industrial revolution

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Aisha Malik@aishapmalik18 Mar 2020
Anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the
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