Consulting historian and researcher. I write about mining, migration and Southern Africa. More info here: https://xitter.cf/t.co/q4vQqMh8RR Email: [email protected]
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ALT Magazine page titled "THE GRAND CANYON OF THE TAILINGS DAM" in bold text. The page shows landscape photographs split into three vertical sections, showing tall, eroded rock-like pillars and steep sandy canyon walls under a clear blue sky.
ALT Typewritten page. Text reads: "Mr Attlee came out – remember he was prime minister – and he met the trade union at the chamber of mines. I was there. He smoked a pipe and he sat there while the trade union – I got them going – talked and talked and talked. Well the tea break came and I took all the trade union blokes, including Katilungu, outside, and they said to me ‘Mr Field, what is the matter with that man? Why doesn’t he speak? Why doesn’t he answer?’ And I said ‘I don’t know’. Anyway we went back again and at lunchtime Katilungu could stand it no longer and he said ‘sir, why don’t you answer our questions? Why don’t you say something?’ So Attlee took his pipe out and said ‘when you men learn to talk reasonably, learn to talk sense, then I will discuss things with you, but the way you talk I cant. The meeting is over.’ Attlee, a labour prime minister."
ALT Photo showing the prow of a dark-blue cruise ship moored against a quay. In the background are mountains and a blue sky.
ALT View taken from the upper deck of a cruise ship showing the side as it sails through the sea. The sea is a dark blue colour with white foam coming from the bows.
ALT Front cover of an old Penguin Modern Classics edition of "Nostromo" by Joseph Conrad. The cover features a painted portrait illustration of a man with dark hair and a prominent moustache looking forward. The book sits on a wooden table.
ALT Photo of page 55 from a book. The text begins "Mrs Gould knew the history of San Tome mine. Worked in the early days mostly by means of lashes on the backs of slaves..."
ALT Front cover of the book People of the city by Cyprian Ekwensi. The illustration features a sketch of man playing a trumpet alongside a woman reading with a city skyline behind them.
ALT Excerpt from a book. Text reads: "CHAPTER EIGHT Sango had heard of the coal crisis which broke out in the Eastern Greens, of the twenty-one miners who had been shot down by policemen under orders from 'the imperialists'. To him it had a faint echo of something happening in a distant land. He was somewhat taken aback when McMaster called him into the office and told him that a passage had been booked for him to travel to the Eastern Greens and bring back reports."
