Great Pit Disasters Great Britain 1700 To The Present Day
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Great Pit Disasters Great Britain 1700 To The Present Day
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Author : Helen Duckham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Great Pit Disasters Great Britain 1700 To The Present Day written by Helen Duckham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Durham Mining Disasters C 1700 1950s
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Author : Maureen Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Durham Mining Disasters C 1700 1950s written by Maureen Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Coal mine accidents categories.
It is now over half a century since the last coalmining disaster to affect the lives and families of people living and working on what became known as the Great Northern Coalfield. This was the first area of Britain where mining developed on a large scale but at tremendous human cost. Mining was always a dangerous occupation, especially during the nineteenth century and in the years before nationalization in 1947. Safety was often secondary to profit. It was the disasters emanating from explosions of gas that caused the greatest loss of life, decimating local communities. In tight-knit mining settlements virtually every household might be affected by injury or loss of life, leaving widows and children with little or no means of support. At Haswell in 1844 95 men and boys perished; 164 died at Seaham in 1880 and 168 at West Stanley in 1909. This volume provides us with an account of these and all the other pit disasters in County Durham from the 1700s to the 1950s
The Pretoria Pit Disaster
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Author : Alan Davies
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2010-11-15
The Pretoria Pit Disaster written by Alan Davies and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The dramatic and chilling story of Lancashire's worst coal mining accident, which was also the third worst mining disaster in British history.
Caverns Of Night
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Author : William B. Thesing
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000
Caverns Of Night written by William B. Thesing and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art categories.
An exploration of the aesthetic challenges of representing Western European and American coal-mining experiences in art, literature and film. It features 19 essays offering critical analyses of topics such as gender, class and ethnicity as portrayed in 19th- and 20th-century works.
Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors
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Author : Brian Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-02-11
Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors written by Brian Elliott and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-11 with Reference categories.
“A meticulous mixture of social and family history . . . Whether or not you have mining connections, this is an interesting socio-economic read.” —Your Family Tree In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families, and communities, and its legacy is still with us today—many of us have a coalmining ancestor. Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing. That is why Brian Elliott’s concise, authoritative and practical handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of coalminers in the past. His overview of the coalmining history—and the case studies and research tips he provides—will make his book rewarding reading for anyone looking for a general introduction to this major aspect of Britain’s industrial heritage. His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary on them will make this guide an essential tool for family historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coalmining underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community. As featured in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine and the Barnsley Chronicle.
Accidents In History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-01-29
Accidents In History written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-29 with Medical categories.
There is now an extensive literature on the social and environmental consequences of living in the risk society. Studies of trauma are also increasingly prominent. But scant attention has been paid to perceptions of risk and danger in the past — in particular, to the history of accidents and the meanings of the accidental. This collection of interdisciplinary essays addresses this lacuna providing a theoretically informed historical sociology of the accident and risk. It explores the social and cultural contexts in which ‘acts of God', calamities, catastrophes, disasters, injuries, casualties, and other category of ‘mishaps' were experienced, conceptualized and responded to. Drawing on the skills of British, European and North American scholars, Accidents in History combines philosophical, sociological and ecological overviews with in-depth historical case-studies. It spans the period from the eighteenth century to the present, probing the epistemological, social and political roots of the accidental. The authors differentiate between industrial and other forms of injury; trace the origins of the normalization of accidents; and analyze the interactions and gendered discrepancies between domestic and non-domestic mishaps. They also investigate the medicalization of sudden injury, and discuss the emergence of new socio-medical and humanitarian discourses around the organization of relief for victims.
Mine Safety
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Author : Balbir S. Dhillon
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-05-27
Mine Safety written by Balbir S. Dhillon and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-27 with Science categories.
Mine Safety combines detailed information on safety in mining with methods and mathematics that can be used to preserve human life. By compiling various recent research results and data into one volume, Mine Safety eliminates the need to consult many diverse sources in order to obtain vital information. Chapters cover a broad range of topics, including: human factors and error in mine safety, mining equipment safety, safety in offshore industry and programmable electronic mining system safety. They are written in such a manner that the reader requires no previous knowledge to understand their contents. Examples and solutions are given at appropriate places, and there are numerous problems to test the reader’s comprehension. Mine Safety will prove useful for many individuals, including engineering and safety professionals working in the mining industry, researchers, instructors, and undergraduate and graduate students in the field of mining engineering.
Coal In Victorian Britain Part I Volume 3
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Author : John Benson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-10-28
Coal In Victorian Britain Part I Volume 3 written by John Benson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-28 with History categories.
Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry.
Mining And Social Change Routledge Revivals
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Author : Martin Bulmer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-11
Mining And Social Change Routledge Revivals written by Martin Bulmer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-11 with Social Science categories.
The strong community ties of mining villages are the central concern of this book, which deals with the social history and sociology of mining in County Durham in the twentieth century. Focusing on the country as a whole, this title, first published in 1978, asks what is most distinctive about the area in the past and how it is changing in the present. The personal documents presented in the first chapters of the book bring to life the local mining community with an evocative picture of village life at the turn of the century. These first-hand accounts are integrated with the results of social research carried out at Durham University over a number of years. Mining and Social Change will be of interest to students of history and sociology.
The Georgians
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Author : Penelope J. Corfield
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-08
The Georgians written by Penelope J. Corfield and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with History categories.
A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in the international trade in enslaved Africans. But how were these changes perceived by people at the time? And how do their viewpoints compare with attitudes today? In this wide-ranging history, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life—politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and science, industry and towns. People’s responses at the time were often divided. Pessimists saw loss and decline, while optimists saw improvements and light. Out of such tensions came the Georgian culture of both experiment and resistance. Corfield emphasizes those elements of deep continuity that persisted even within major changes, and shows how new developments were challenged if their human consequences proved dire.