What Is the Story of The Pitmen Painters? Lee Hall’s new drama tells the true story of a group of miners in Newcastle, England, in the 1930s who discover a passion for painting and become ...

The Pitmen Painters is based on the triumphant true story of a group of British miners who discover a new way to express themselves and unexpectedly become art-world sensations! An arresting and ...

A contemporary dance work is to be performed at venues across Northumberland to mark the 90th anniversary of the Pitmen ...

A new exhibition of unseen Pitmen Painters' art has opened. Many of the works have been sourced from the local community in the coal-mining town where the Pitmen Painters first formed in the 1930s.

Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of ...

John Gamble, Bob Girvan, Sam Girvan and Mel Elcock said they were proud to have stood against the tide When miners in Britain downed tools 40 years ago, thousands of pit workers in Leicestershire ...

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Steve King has urged his Hednesford Town side to continue to be clinical in front of goal as his side host Quorn in the FA ...

DR Robert McManners will give an illustrated talk titled Shafts of Light: The Pitmen Painters at Brancepeth Village Hall, Brancepeth, near Durham, on Saturday, November 30, at 7pm for 7.30pm.

Chasetown are happy to be the underdogs against neighbours Hednesford Town, who have been urged to up their game from the ...

NORTHERN STAGE, the largest producing theatre in the North East, has announced the cast and creative team for their classic ...