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This short Mining Review travelogue gives a short glimpse of how two-way international trade was developing in the immediate postwar period. It follows County Durham miner Harry Wilkins (the 'British ambassador' of the title) on a trip to Copenhagen as a representative of the British coal industry - the aim being to strike a trade deal with Denmark, which then relied on peat for fuel. In exchange for an initial instalment of three thousand tons of Durham coal, Britain would once again be granted access to Danish bacon, which hadn't been seen outside the black market since war broke out in 1939, nearly a decade earlier. Michael Brooke
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