Durham Mining Museum - Bibliography (original) (raw)

The Coal Industry - A Select Bibliography

Compiled by S. M. Linsley, Lecturer in Industrial Archaeology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1. Recent standard works
2. Other general books
3. Coal Industry in NE England
4. Labour History in Coal Mining - General
5. Labour History in Coal Mining - NE England
6. Articles about the Coal Industry in the NE

Note especially the following recent standard works:

Benson, J., Neville, R. G., & Thompson, C. H. Bibliography of the British Coal Industry: Secondary Literature, Parliamentary and Departmental Papers, Mineral Maps and Plans, (Oxford University Press, 1981).

The History of the British Coal Industry in five volumes by the Clarendon Press; Oxford i.e.
Volume 1: Before 1700 by Hatcher, John, (1993).
Volume 2: 1700 - 1830 by Flynn, Michael W., (1984).
Volume 3: 1830 - 1913 by Church, Roy, (1986).
Volume 4: 1913 - 1946 by Supple, Barry, (1987).
Volume 5: 1946 - 1982 By Ashworth, William, (1986).

All of the above volumes contain extensive bibliographies.

Other general books

Ashton, T. S., & Sykes, J., The Coal Industry of the Eighteenth Century, (Univ. Manchester, 1929).

Bright, J., Pit Ponies, (Batsford, 1986), ISBN 0 7134 522269.

Boyd, R. Nelson, Coal Pits and Pitmen, (1895).

Bulman, H. F. & Redmayne, R. A. S., Colliery Working and Management, (3rd edn., 1912).

Curr, John, The Coal Viewer & Engine Builder's Practical Companion, (1797, Repr. Frank Cass, 1970).

Fraser-Stephen, Elspet, Two Centuries in the London Coal Trade, (London, 1952).

Galloway, R. L., A History of Coal Mining in Great Britain, (1882, Repr. David & Charles, 1969).

Galloway, R. L., Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade, 2 vols. (1898, Repr. David & Charles, 1971, ISBN Vol 1: 0 7153 4980 5, Vol 2: 0 7153 5147 8).

Griffin, A. R., Coalmining, (Longman, 1971).

Griffin, A. R., The British Coalmining Industry: Retrospect and Prospect, (Moorland Publishing, 1977).

Haddock, M. H., In and Under Britain (1949).

Holland, John, Fossil Fuel, the Collieries and Coal Trade, (1841, Repr. Frank Cass, 1968).

Hughes, S., Malaws, B., Parry, M., & Wakelin, P., Collieries of Wales, Engineering & Architecture, (RCHMWales, 1994).

Jevons, J. S., The British Coal Trade, (1915, Repr. David & Charles, 1969).

Lewis, Brian, Coal Mining in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, (Longman, 1971).

Mining Association, Historical Review of Coal Mining, (Fleetway Press, c.1924).

Mott, R. A. (Ed), The History of Coke-making, (1936).

Nef, J. U., The Rise of the British Coal Industry, (1932; Routledge, 1952).

Nelson, A., Dictionary of Mining, (George Newnes Ltd, 1964).

RCHME, Images of Industry: Coal, (RCHME, Swindon, 1994).

Redmayne, R. A. S., Men, Mines and Memories, (Eyre & Spottiswood, 1942).

Redmayne, R. A. S., The Problem of the Coal Mines, (1945).

Scott-James, R. A., Coal and Power, (Hodder & Stoughton, 1924). [Some useful material on housing,]

Smyth, Warrington W., Coal and Coal Mining, (1886).

Squires, E., Pit Pony Heroes, (David & Charles, 1974), ISBN 0 7153 6427 8.

Townshend-Rose, H., The British Coal Industry, (Allen & Unwin, 1951).

Whitaker, J. W., Mine Lighting, (1928).

Wood, O., West Cumberland Coal, 1600-1982/3, (CWAAS Extra Series XXIV, 1988).

Note also:

Colliery Yearbook,(?Annual Publication)..

Colliery Guardian: Guide to the Coalfields, (?Annual Publication).

Books dealing with the coal industry of North East England

Archer, Mark, A Sketch of the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham, (London, 1897).

Atkinson, F., The Great Northern Coalfield, (University Tutorial Press Ltd., 1968).

Boyle, J. R., History of the County of Durham, (1892) 84-112. [Available on Microfiche from Original Indexes]

Brand, John, History of ... Newcastle upon Tyne, (See Vol. 2, 1789). [Available on Microfiche from Original Indexes]

Dunn, Matthias, An historical, geological and descriptive view of the coal trade of the North of England . . . appended a concise notice of the peculiarities of certain coal fields in Great Britain and Ireland, (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1844).

Dunn, Matthias, A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries, (2nd edn., Newcastle upon Tyne, 1852).

Edington, Robert, Treatise on the Coal Trade, (1813).

Finch, Roger, Coals from Newcastle: The Story of the North East Coal Trade in the Days of Sail, (Terence Dalton, 1973).

Fordyce, W., A History of Coal, Coke, Coalfields and Iron Manufacture in Northern England, (1860, Repr. Frank Graham, 1973).

Forster, Eric, The Death Pit - West Stanley Colliery Explosion, 1909, (Frank Graham, 1969).

Forster, T. E., ed. The Hartley Colliery Accident, 1862, (Newcastle, 1912).

Glendinning, D, The Art of Mining: Thomas Hair's Watercolours of the Great Northern Coalfield, (Tyne Bridge Publishing, Newcastle Libraries, 2000) ISBN: 1 85795 180 8.

Greenwell, G. C., A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham, (1888, Repr. Frank Graham, 1970).

Hair, T. H., Sketches of the Coal Mines in Northumberland and Durham, (1839, Repr. Frank Graham, 1969, Repr. Davis Books, 1987, ISBN 0 946865 07 8).

Hair, P. E. H., Coals on Rails ..., (Liverpool University Press, 1988).

Hill, Alan, Single Cylinder, Vertical Lever Type Winding Engines as used in the North East of England, (Eindhoven, c.1985).

Hodgson, Rev John, Funeral Sermon: Felling Explosion, (1813).

Holmes, J. H. H., A Treatise on the Coal Mines of Durham and Northumberland, (1816).

'J. C.', The Compleat Collier: Or the Whole Art of Working Coal mines in the Northern Parts, (1708, Repr. Frank Graham, 1968, Repr. Picks Pub., 1990, ISBN 0 95164843 1 0).

Leifchild, J. R., Our Coal and Our Coal-Pits, (1856, repr. Frank Cass, 1968). [Mainly N.E.]

Leister, Ingeborg, The Sea-coal Mine and the Durham Miner, (Univ. of Durham, 1975).

McCutcheon, John E., Troubled Seams, (Privately Published, 1955). [Concerns Seaham, Co. Durham]

McCutcheon, John E., A Wearside Mining Story, (Privately Published, 1960).

McCutcheon, John E., The Hartley Colliery Disaster, (Privately Published, c.1960).

Moyes, William Mostly Mining, (Frank Graham, 1969). [A history of the Easington, Co. Durham area]

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 1872-74, A series of articles under the general heading 'Our Colliery Villages' [Bound copy of the articles in the Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Section, in L942.8 - Cr C 265735200].

Northumberland County History, especially Vol 13 (1930) 25-56.

Robertson, T., ed. A Pitman's Notebook, (Frank Graham, 1970). [The diary of a viewer at Houghton, Co. Durham, 1749-51]

Taylor, T. J., The Archaeology of the Coal Trade, (1858, Repr. Frank Graham, 1971). [Mainly N.E.]

Temple, David, The Collieries of Durham, 2 Vols, (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1994, ISBN Vol 1: 1 871518 11 3, Vol 2: 1 901237 01 X).

Tuck, James, The Collieries of Northumberland, 2 Vols, (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1993, ISBN Vol 1: 1 871518 08 3, Vol 2: 1 871518 12 1).

Victoria County History Durham, (1904) 319-48. [Partly reproduced in the History Section]

Recent Publications

Temple, David, Above and Below the Limestone - The Pits and People of Easington District, (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2000, ISBN 1-901237-20-6).

Temple, David, Durham Miners' Millennium Book, (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2000, ISBN 1-901237-18-4).

Smith, Ken & Jean, The Great Northern Miners, (Tyne Bridge Publishing [Newcastle Libraries & Information Service], 2008, ISBN 1-85795-119-6).

Labour History etc. in coal mining - General

Anon, A Century of Struggle: Britain's Miners in Pictures, 1889-1989, (National Union of Mineworkers, Sheffield, 1989).

Arnot, R. Page, History of the Scottish Miners, (Allen & Unwin, 1849).

Arnot, R. Page, The Miners, in 3 Volumes viz:
Volume 1: A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, 1889-1910, (Allen & Unwin, 1949).
Volume 2: Years of Struggle: A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1910 Onwards, (Allen & Unwin, 1953).
Volume 3: In Crisis and War: A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1930 Onwards, (Allen & Unwin, 1961).

Challinor, R & Ripley, B., The Miners' Association: A Trade Union in the Age of the Chartists, (1968).

Church, Roy A., Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966, (CUP, 1998).

Evans, R. Meurig, Children in the Mines, 1840-42, (National Museum of Wales, 1972).

Evans, R. Meurig, Children Working Underground, (National Museum of Wales, 1979).

Zweig, F., Men in the Pits, (Gollancz, 1948).

Labour History etc. in coal mining - North East England

Allen, E., The Durham Miners' Association, 1869-1969, (DMA, 1969).

Charlton, W. B., A Fifty Years History of the Durham County Colliery Enginemen's, Boiler Minder's and Firemen's Association, (Durham, 1925).

Colls, R., The Colliers Rant: Song and Culture in the Industrial Village, (Croom Helm, 1977).

Davison, J., Northumberland Miner's History, 1919-1939, (NUM, Northumberland Area, 1973).

Douglas, D., Pit Talk in County Durham, (History Workshop, 1973).

Douglas, D., Pit Life in County Durham, (History Workshop, 1972).

Emery, Norman, The Coalminers of Durham, (Allan Sutton, 1992, ISBN 0 7509 0710 X).

Emery. N., Banners of the Durham Coalfield, (Sutton Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0 7509 1708 3).

Fynes, Richard, The Miners of Northumberland and Durham: a History of their Social and Political Progress, (Sunderland, 1873, Repr. 1963, Repr. Davis Books, 1986, ISBN 0 946865 05 1).

Garside, W. R., The Durham Miners, 1919-1960, (Allen & Unwin, 1971, ISBN 0 04 942091 7).

Moore, Robert, Pit-men, Preachers & Politics: The Effects of Methodism in a Durham Mining Community, (Cambridge University Press, 1974).

Palgrave, F. M. T., A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton le Hole, (1896, Repr. Johnstone-Carr, Gateshead, 1987).

Sturgess, R. W., ed. Pitmen, Viewers and Coalmasters, [Six essays], (North East Labour History Society, 1986).

Wilson, John, A History of the Durham Miners, (?).

Welbourne, R., The Miners' Union of Northumberland and Durham, (CUP, 1923).

Articles dealing with the coal industry of the North East

Anon, 'New Colliery Villages 2: Ashington Coal Company Ltd.', Garden Cities and Town Planning, 19 (1929) 91-2.

Atkinson, F., 'Some Northumberland Collieries in 1724', Trans Archaeological and Architectural Soc. of Durham and Northumberland, XI (1965) 425-34.

Ayris, Ian, 'Elemore Colliery and the Hetton Coal Company', Ind Arch Rev., 4, 1 (1979-80) 6-35.

Brown, K., 'The Lodges of the Durham Miners' Association' Northern History XXIII (1987) 138-152.

Buddle, John, 'Synopsis of Several Seams of Coal in the Newcastle District', Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Of Northumberland and Durham, 1, 215. [Quoted in Northumberland County History 3 (1896) 314.]

Cromar, P., 'The Coal Industry on Tyneside, 1715-50', Northern History XIV (1978) 193-207.

Harris, Alan, 'Colliery Settlements in East Cumberland', CWAAS, 74 (1974) 118-46.

Hughes, Edward, 'The First Steam Engines in the Durham Coalfield', Archaeologia Aeliana Ser. 4, 27 (1949) 29-45.

Leathart, J. R., 'The Rising Sun Colliery, Wallsend', Archit. Review, 79 (1936) 160-62.

Louis, Henry, 'Early Steam Engines in the North of England', Trans. Inst. Min. Eng., 82 (1931-32) 526-30.

Mott, R. A., 'The Newcastle Coal Trade', Colliery Guardian, 204 (1962) 301-41.

Oram, R., Griffiths, W. B. & Hodgson, N., 'Excavations at Wallsend Colliery B Pit, 1997', Archaeologia Aeliana XXVI (1998) 115-160.

Raistrick, Arthur, 'The Development of the Tyne Coal Basin', Trans. Inst. Min. Eng., 113 (1953-54) 13-25.

Raistrick, Arthur, 'The Steam Engine on Tyneside, 1715-78', Trans. Newcomen Soc., 17 (1936-37) 131-62.

Satre, L. J., 'Thomas Burt and the Crisis of Late-Victorian Liberalism in the North East', Northern History, XXIII (1987) 174-193.

Satre, Lowell J., 'A Note on the Northumberland Miners' Association Annual Picnic', North East History 31 (1997) 65-73.

Sill, Michael, 'Mid-nineteenth Century Labour Mobility: The Case of the Coal-miners of Hetton-le-Hole, Co. Durham', Local Population Studies 22 (Spring 1979).

Sill, Michael, 'Landownership and Industry: The East Durham Coalfield in the Nineteenth Century', Northern History XX (1984) 146-166.

Simpson, T. V., 'Old Mining Records and Plans', Trans Inst Mining Engineers, LXXXI, (1930-31) 75-108, 292-94.

Smailes, A. E., 'Population Changes in the Colliery Districts of Northumberland and Durham', Geography Jnl 91 (1938) 220-32.

Watson, W. F., 'The Invention of the Miners' Safety Lamp: A Reappraisal', Trans. Newcomen Soc., 70, 1 (1998-99) 135-41.