RECORDS - General Articles

  • Notes on water pressure engines, aerial ropeways.
  • A Guide to Sources of Information on Industrial Archaeology in the Manchester Region. A list of photographs of Yorkshire lead mines held by the Beamish Museum.
  • A brief list of sources for the study of the labour history of the lead mining industry of the Northern Pennines.
  • List of Lead Mining material in the Raistrick MSS - Appletreewick, Bewerley, Conistone, Grassington, Hebden, Matlock (Derbs) and Northumberland.
  • List of lead mining artifacts in the collection of Craven Museum, Skipton, Yorkshire.
  • List of lead mining archives and surveys in the British Speleological Association Records.
  • The Annan Collection in the Lyon Playfair Library - held in the central College Library of the
  • Imperial College.
  • Sources of Business and Industrial History in the Archives Department of the Leeds City Libraries, 1971.
  • List of mining plans in the North Yorkshire Record Office.
  • Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines other than coal, and oil shale, in England and Wales.
  • Ingilby Records, lead mining and stone quarrying in Nidderdale (National Register of Archives, 1966).
  • Richard Gilbert's Letter Book - 1829 (typed transcription, 33pp.).
  • Aitken, W.G. "Excavation of bloomeries in Rannoch (Perthshire) and elsewhere" (1970), pp.15-23.
  • Anon. "Aerial ropeway industry makes its case" Contract Journal, (August 20th 1981), pp.24-26.
  • Anon. "New Light on Mining's Ancient History" Mining Magazine (May 1983), pp.372-375.
  • Aschmann, H. "The natural history of a mine" Economic Geography, Vol.46 No.2 (April 1970), pp.172-189.
  • Benson, J. "Mining Safety and Miners' Compensation 1850-1900" paper read at Bochum Conference, (1989), 19 pp.
  • Binnie, G.M. "Masonry and Concrete Dams 1880-1941" Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol.X No.1 (Autumn 1987), pp.41-58.
  • Blainey, G. "A Rejoinder (to Morrissey and Burt) The Economic History Review, Vol.XXVI No.3 (1973), pp.506-509.
  • Blanchard, I.S.W. "The Miner and the Agricultural Community in Late Medieval England"
  • The Agricultural History Review, Vol.20 No.2 pp.93-106.
  • Blanchard, I.S.W. "Rejoinder: Stannator Fabulosus" The Agricultural History Review, Vol. No. pp.62-74.
  • Brill, R.H. and Wampler, J.M. "Isotope Studies of Ancient Lead" American Journal of Archaeology, Vol.71 No.1 (1967), pp.63-77.
  • Brown, I.J. "The Development of Mining Legislation in the UK-protection for the owner, the miner, and the environment" paper read at the Bochum Conference, (1989), 4 pp.
  • Burke, G. and Richardson, P. "The decline and fall of the cost book system in the Cornish tin mining industry, 1895-1914" Business History, Vol.XXIII No.1 (1981), pp.4-18.
  • Burke, G. and Richardson, P. "The adaptability of the Cornish cost book system: A response"
  • Business History, Vol.XXV No.2 (1983), pp.193-199.
  • Burt, R. "Lead Production in England and Wales, 1700-1770" The Economic History Review, Vol.XXII No.2 (1969), pp.249-268.
  • Burt, R. "The London Mining Exchange 1850-1900" Business History, Vol.XIV No.2 (1972), pp.124-143.
  • Burt, R. "World Production of non-precious non-ferrous Minerals from the ancient period to present" (Oxford: Pergamon, Supplementary Vol.1, 1988). - Typescript 35 pp.
  • Burt, R. "The non-ferrous mining industries and proto-industrialisation" paper read at the Bochum Conference, (1989).
  • Burt, R. "Changes in consumption of lead in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and its consequences for the growth of the British non-ferrous mining industry" - Typescript, dated 1991, 17 pp.
  • Burt, R. and Kudo, N. "The adaptability of the Cornish cost book system" Business History, Vol.XXV No.1 (1983), pp.30-41.
  • Coates, P.B. "Lead Mining Law" Dissertation for the Faculty of Law, University of Leeds, 1979.43 pp.
  • Craddock, P. "Bronze Age Metallurgy in Britain" Current Archaeology, Vol.IX No.4 (February 1986), pp.106-109.
  • Crafts, N.F.R. "Industrial revolution in England and France some thoughts on the question 'why was England first?'" The Economic History Review, Vol.XXX No.3 (1977), pp.429-441.
  • Deane, P. and Cole, W.A. British Economic Growth 1688-1959 - part 2: The Mining Industry
  • (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964), pp.210-129.
  • Field, J. "Training, Labour Market Policy and the State: Responses to the decline of employment in British Coalmining 1920-1939" paper read at Bochum Conference, (1989), 17 pp.
  • Fine, B. "Economies of scale and a featherbedding cartel? A reconsideration of the Interwar British coal industry" paper read at Bochum Conference, (1989), 21 pp.
  • Fitzgerald, D. "The decline of lead mining in the United Kingdom 1845-1904" Dissertation for the Dept. of Economic History, University of Exeter, 1982.
  • Francis, H. "Confronting Reality: Coal and Trade Unionism in Britain after 1945" paper read at Bochum Conference, (1989), 27 pp.
  • Garside, W.R. "Adjusting to Decline: coalmining and rationalisation movement in interwar Britain" paper read at the Bochum Conference, (1989), 18 pp.
  • Grainger, M.A. "The Effects of Mining on Railway Infrastructure and Developments in their control", Proceedings of the Institute of Civil
  • Griffin, A.R. "Industrial Archaeology as an aid to the study of Mining History" Industrial Archaeology, Vol.11 No.1 (February 1974), pp.11-28.
  • Griffin, A.R. "Brinsley Colliery: A Conflict of Evidence" Industrial Archaeology, pp.28-28. Hatcher, J. "Myths, Miners and Agricultural Communities" The Agricultural History Review, Vol.22 No.1 pp.54-61.
  • Irlam, G.A. "William Armstrong's Hydraulic Engine and Pumps at Cragside" Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol.XI Pt 1 (Autumn 1988), pp.68-74.
  • Irlam, G.A. "Electricity Supply at Cragside" Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol.XI Pt 2 (Spring 1989), pp.187-195.
  • Libecap, G.D. "Economic variables and the development of the law: the case of western mineral rights" Journal of Economic History, Vol.XXXVIII No.2 (1978), pp.338-362.
  • Lougheed, A.L. "British company formation and the Queensland mining industry 1886-1890"
  • Business History, Vol.XXV No.1 (1983), pp.76-82.
  • McCloskey, D.N. "No it did not: A reply to Crafts" The Economic History Review, Vol.XXXII No.4 (1979), pp.538-541.
  • Moissenet, L.V. "Description du procede Anglais pour les essais de cuivre par la voie seche"
  • Annales Des Mines, Ser.5 tome XIII (1858), pp.183-208.
  • Morrissey, M.J. and Burt, R. "A theory of mineral discovery: a note" The Economic History Review, Vol.XXVI No.3 (1973), pp.497-505.
  • Morton, G.R. & Wingrove, J. "Constitution of Bloomery Slags: Part 1: Roman" Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, (December 1969), pp.1556-1564.
  • Nightingale, P. "The evolution of weight-standards and the creation of new monetary and commercial links in northern Europe from the tenth century to the twelfth century" pp.192- 209
  • Outram, Q. "Theoretical Orientations to Miners' Strikes" paper read at Bochum Conference, (1989), 22 pp.
  • Rostow, W.W. "No random Walk: A comment on 'Why was England first?'" The Economic History Review, Vol.XXXI No.4 (1978), pp.610-614.
  • Schmitz, C.J. "The rise of big business in the World copper industry 1870-1930" The Economic History Review, Vol.XXXIX No.3 (1986), pp.392-410.
  • Scott, W.R. The Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint Stock Companies to 1720 - Vol.2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910). Section I - The Governors, Assistants and Society of the Mines Royal (founded 1561, incorporated 1568), pp.383-405. Section II - The Mines Royal of Scotland and Ireland, pp.406-412. Section III - The Governors, Assistants and Society of the Mineral and Battery Works (founded 1565, incorporated 1568), pp.413-429. Section IV - The Governor and Company of Copper Miners in England (incorporated 1691), pp.430-435. Section V - Other Copper Mining Companies founded from 1692 to 1694, pp.436-439. Section VI - Lead Mining and Lead Smelting Companies (1692-1694), pp.440-442. Section VII - The Governor and Company of the Mine Adventurers of England (1698), pp.443-458.
  • Taylor, J. "On the machines for raising and lowering miners, and on the use of the iron wire rope, in the mining district of the Hartz" Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Report, (1842), pp.63-69.
  • Trotter, D.A. "The history of underground mine lighting" CIM Bulletin, Vol.75 No.838 (February 1982), pp.78-84.
  • Wilson, A.J. "Holding a mirror to mining" Industrial Heritage, Vol.9 No.4 (Winter 1991), pp.2-7.
  • Woodward, D. "'Swords into Ploughshares': Recycling in pre-industrial England" The Economic History Review, Vol.XXXVIII No.2 (1985), pp.175-191.