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Mining
[1955-1979]
This subseries contains items relating to mining and mining communities. The subject matter includes coal mines and mining, gold mines and mining, lead mines and mining, smelting and smelt mills, quar...
Social Questions
[1960s-1970s]
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items relating to labour and industrial unrest. This includes an ms. account, compiled from an original ms. source, of a Luddite attack on Cartwright...
An Account of the Home Life, Leisure-Time Activities and Community Traditions of the Northumbrian Coal Miner, Dealing Mainly with the Period 1900 to 1930
Fryer, Sheila
1964
A dissertation based on interviews with seven miners and ex-miners from Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The first of its three chapters contains a biographical note on, and the recollections o...
The Silvery Slocan: History and Folklife
Smith, Peter
1977
A study of history and folklife among a mining community, the Slocan [Silver] Mining Division, in south-eastern British Columbia. The study is based on evidence from both documentary and oral sources,...
Holmewood. Portrait of a Village: A Survey of the Customs, Traditions and Beliefs in a Derbyshire Mining Village
Rodgers, L J
1967
A study of the folklore of Holmewood in Derbyshire. Its sections provide a brief description of the old village, with particular reference to places and objects which are part of the life and traditio...
The Coal Mining Community of Abram, Lancashire
Bauldie, J S
1970
A dissertation which focusses on the life of the miner away from his place of employment, and describes miners' recreational activities in the Lancashire village of Abram during the years 1900 to 1925...
Custom and Tradition in the Black Country
Smith, Carolyn Margaret
1972
A study comprising introductory sections on the industrial history of the Black Country, its steel, coal mining, nail making and chain making industries and associated communities. Further sections de...
The History and Folk Life of the Somerset Coalfield
Day, Michael Patrick
1974
A study detailing the history and past working traditions of the Somerset coalfields, with particular reference to collieries at Kilmersdon and Writhlington.
Mining in the Worsley Area of Lancashire
Taylor, Ruth
1974
A dissertation on customs, traditions and beliefs connected with the coal mining industry in the Worsley area of Lancashire, based on printed sources and interviews with four miners. Its sections pres...
The Decline of the Pit Village: A Study of Burradon, Northumberland
Thompson, Elizabeth Jane
1975
A study of one pit village, Burradon, in Northumberland, its colliery and community. Sections describe working life underground, attitudes to pit life, the role of the pitman's wife, community spirit ...
Lead Mining in Nidderdale and Wharfedale, North Yorkshire
Oldroyd, Charles H
1977
A project which outlines the processes involved in the extraction of lead ore, and the production of the metal. A mine-by-mine history of lead mining activities in Nidderdale and Wharfedale is present...
An Account of the Dialect of Staithes in the North Riding of Yorkshire
Lawson, Mabel Stockwell
1949
M.A. thesis examining the dialect of Staithes (North Yorkshire), based on fieldwork data collected in 1947 from six informants, using Joseph Wright's 'English Dialect Grammar', and the Dieth-Orton Que...