Talk and Book Launch with Dave Chapple
7:00pm Friday 1st May at Radstock Museum
On Friday 1st May Dave Chapple will be coming to Radstock Museum to give a talk about his new book ‘Resistance and Resilience: The 1926 General Strike and the Miners’ lockout in the Somerset Coalfield’. This book is a tribute to the Somerset Miners Association and is based on 3 years research in the SMA Archive at Bristol University.
Doors open at 6:40pm and the talk starts at 7:00pm.
Following the talk Dave will be selling signed copies of ‘Resistance and Resilience’ (Price £15.00).
Dave Chapple got to know the Somerset Coalfield towns and villages while playing football in the Somerset Senior League in the 1970s against teams like Peasedown, Tunley, Clutton and Bishop Sutton. A postman for 38 years, Dave has lived in Bridgwater since 1987. He is a life-long trades unionist; an oral historian and author of ten books of west country working class history, biography and autobiography.
Autumn 2026 Season: Bygone Days Talks
Bygone Days talks celebrate both local and national history. Talks are held at 7:30 pm at Chilcompton Village Hall in Chilcompton unless otherwise stated. Entry is £5, cash or card on the door, no booking required. Doors open at 7pm. Raffle available.
Raising funds for Somerset Coalfield Life at Radstock Museum charity no. 1151573
Tuesday 1st September
Unsung Women of Somerset by Helen Pugh
Tuesday 6th October
Follies by Jonathan Holt
Tuesday 3rd November
Death and Service by Richard Cooper-Knight
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