The Last Years of Coal Mining in South WalesTerry Evans
However, in those parts of Wales they controlled the English lords created towns. The most important was Cardiff. To us these early Welsh towns would seem tiny. They often only had several hundred inhabitants. The English lords also founded many monasteries in Wales. In the mid-13th century o...
Wellstead was a sturdy Welshman of some mechanical engineering experience. He looked after the office management, the purchase of supplies for the mines, details of contracts, etc. At the time I entered the firm, the business included coal mines in China, Wales and the Transvaal, a tin ...
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The geography of the lock-out is central to any understanding of its history, particularly the way in which support for the strike weakened during the autumn of 1926. The chronology of the strike in different coalfields is shown in figure 18.1. This map is drawn using figures from government...
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History of New Year New Year’s Day marks the start of a new year according to the Gregorian calendar. It is a relatively modern practice. Although Romans began marking the start of their civil year on January 1 in their calendar (prior to the Gregorian calendar), the traditional springtime...
Constitutional reforms are taking place in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. These offer the opportunity to bring about a more effective policy framework for a range of policy areas including land use planning. In Scotland, the introduction of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 could allow the imp...
she did not have any first-hand knowledge of the coal industry before she began working on the project, which will be premiered at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on Friday.Wallen, who was born in Belize, researched the history of coal along with librettist John Binias.She said: "...
Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Diseases in British Coal Mining Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston have written the first history of occupational disease among British coal miners. Miners' Lung is an important book on an important subject. By 1914, the nation's 3,000 collieries, which employed...