Author: Norman EmeryPublisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780752450421
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The real story of Durham's bygone mining age
Coalminers of Durham
Author: Norman EmeryPublisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780752450421
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The real story of Durham's bygone mining age
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century
Author: Margaret HedleyPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750991046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and the pits, and men who worked in the coal-mining industry during the Victorian period. There has been very little written about the importance of the home life that supported the miners - their wives who, through heroic efforts, did their best to provide attractive, healthy, happy home for their husbands, often in appalling social conditions. To provide a welcoming atmosphere at home demanded tremendous resources and commitment from the miners' wives. Despite their many hardships these women selflessly put everyone in the family before themselves. They operated on less rest, less food at times of necessity and under the huge physical burden of work and the emotional burden of worry concerning the safety of their family. Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century: Hannah's Story addresses the lack of information about the role of women in the Durham Coalfield, engagingly explored through one woman's experience.
The Miners of Northumberland and Durham. A History of Their Social and Political Progress
Author: Richard FynesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Shadow of the Mine
Author: Huw BeynonPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839767987
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday – and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners’ Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Their defeat doomed a way of life. The lingering sense of abandonment in former mining communities would be difficult to overstate. Yet recent electoral politics has revolved around the coalfield constituencies in Labour’s Red Wall. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them. This edition includes a new postscript on why Thatcher’s war on the miners wasn’t good for green politics. ‘Excellent’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Brilliant’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Enlightening’ GUARDIAN
Coal Age
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Internal Combustion
Author: Edwin BlackPublisher: Dialog Press
ISBN: 0914153234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
An explosive, eye-opening expose of the corporate forces that have for more than a century sabotaged the creation of alternative energies and vehicles in order to keep us dependent on oil. There is enough truth in this book to revolutionize our way of life. Winner of four awards for editorial excellence: American Society of Journalists and Authors Best Book, Thomas Edison Award, Green Globes, and an AJPA Rockower Award.
The Coal Industry
Author: American Coal Miner
Author: -Geography. The English cyclopædia, conducted by C. Knight
Author: English cyclopaediaThe Pit Sinkers of Northumberland and Durham
Author: Peter Ford MasonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752490494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Shaft sinking for the extraction of minerals has taken place for centuries, and for much of this time, coal mining was carried out in the North East of England. Various methods of pit sinking developed from the use of shallow bell pits to the excavation of deep shafts, in order to access rich seams of coal and other minerals for sale in rapidly urbanising areas such as London. In the close mining communities of Northumberland and Durham, those who dug the initial shafts, the sinkers themselves, were regarded as the mining elite. This book not only tells the story of mining itself, through upheaval and technological developments, but also focuses on the lives of miners and their families above ground in the emerging pit towns adn villages; places where religion adn miners' galas were an integral part of life. Peter Ford Mason, descended from three generations of County Durham miners, has written a fascinating investigation onto miming society, which makes a compelling read for anyone interested in the social history of the North East or the mining industry as a whole.