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2023Metal MiningPublications
May 5, 2023

Latest monograph published

British Mining No. 115 – Female Employment at the Metal Mines of the UK and Ireland by Lynne Mayers Women and young girls were employed in the metalliferous mining areas of the UK and Ireland from the times of the earliest records. However, this aspect of mining has received little attention from…
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2024
February 3, 2023

The Third International Early Engines Conference (IEEC3)

The Third International Early Engines Conference (IEEC3) Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life: 22-24 March 2024 Please note that the Northern Mine Research Society are only a sponsor of this conference. Conference Details and Call for Papers Building on the success of our previous conferences, we are delighted to confirm…
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2022Memoirs
November 16, 2022

Latest copy of British Mining published

British Mining No 114 – Memoirs 2022 Papers in Memoirs 2022 are: The relationship of the Comet and the Logaulas lodes across the Ystwyth Fault, West Cwmystwyth to Hafod, mid-Wales. David M.D. James Hamstead, the most dangerous colliery in South Staffordshire. Nigel A. Chapman Items from the ‘gold mynes’ of Crawford Moor. R.M.…
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2020Coal MiningMetal Mining
September 15, 2020

Accident & Disasters Reports 1658-1979

Accident & Disasters Reports 1658-1979, provided by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre, have been added to the website. While there are around 740 of these, they are not a complete list. Each report, created from various sources like the official report, articles in the Colliery Guardian,…
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2019
June 18, 2019

Obituaries of members of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy

We are pleased to announce a new resource in the form of over 1700 obituaries of members of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy covering the period 1892-1968. They were collected by the late David Dixon as part of the research towards his doctorate on technical education in metalliferous mining.…
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Coal Mining
July 28, 2018

A miners life in the 1950s

We are please to have been given permission to reproduce here, part of Jack Gale's autobiography, relating to the time he was employed at Middleton Broom Colliery, Leeds, from 1951 to 1959. He provides a valuable insight into how coal mines were worked and the life of a miner, in…
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Database search page
Coal MiningMetal MiningSmelting
May 21, 2018

Database of Mining Information

We are pleased to announce the release of a database of mining information compiled by the late Alasdair Neill. The database contains over 76,000 entries and is fully searchable. Thanks are due also to Mike Gill who took on, and completed the enormous task of converting well over 6,000 pages of…
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Uncategorized
May 17, 2018

Map of Mining Accidents

The mining industry is renowned for having a high number of accidents, many of them fatal.  We are pleased to present this new map which shows the distribution of many mining accidents in coal and miscellaneous mines throughout the UK. The image is the Astley Deep Pit disaster 1874 from the…
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