History Of The Yorkshire Miners 1881 1918

Author : Carolyn Baylies
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000884272

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The History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918 by Carolyn Baylies Pdf

First published in 1993, The History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918 is concerned with the workers in the Yorkshire coal industry, their union, and the broader mining communities in which they lived from the formation of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association in 1881 through to the end of the First World War. The period covered is of considerable importance for the consolidation of the Yorkshire Miners Union, and indeed for the building of a national miners’ federation and an international miners’ organisation, in both of which the role of Yorkshire’s leadership was central. The decades straddling the turn of the century were characterised by volatility in the mining industry, which was reflected in a number of strikes. Carolyn Baylies traces these general processes and focuses, in detail, upon a number of episodes during which union struggles and community involvement coalesced. She explores the dynamic between district and local levels of the union, and the tensions that accompanied a progressive rationalization of bargaining machinery. This book will be of interest to students of history and sociology.

Author : Carolyn Baylies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781134870707

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History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918 by Carolyn Baylies Pdf

Detailed social history of the industry and its union, and of the national and international actions in which the latter figured during the period.

Author : Carolyn Louise Baylies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1003368557

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The History of the Yorkshire Miners, 1881-1918 by Carolyn Louise Baylies Pdf

First published in 1993, The History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918 is concerned with the workers in the Yorkshire coal industry, their union, and the broader mining communities in which they lived from the formation of the Yorkshire Miners' Association in 1881 through to the end of the First World War. The period covered is of considerable importance for the consolidation of the Yorkshire Miners Union, and indeed for the building of a national miners' federation and an international miners' organisation, in both of which the role of Yorkshire's leadership was central. The decades straddling the turn of the century were characterised by volatility in the mining industry, which was reflected in a number of strikes. Carolyn Baylies traces these general processes and focuses, in detail, upon a number of episodes during which union struggles and community involvement coalesced. She explores the dynamic between district and local levels of the union, and the tensions that accompanied a progressive rationalization of bargaining machinery. This book will be of interest to students of history and sociology.

Author : Carolyn Baylies
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000884210

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The History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918 by Carolyn Baylies Pdf

First published in 1993, The History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918 is concerned with the workers in the Yorkshire coal industry, their union, and the broader mining communities in which they lived from the formation of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association in 1881 through to the end of the First World War. The period covered is of considerable importance for the consolidation of the Yorkshire Miners Union, and indeed for the building of a national miners’ federation and an international miners’ organisation, in both of which the role of Yorkshire’s leadership was central. The decades straddling the turn of the century were characterised by volatility in the mining industry, which was reflected in a number of strikes. Carolyn Baylies traces these general processes and focuses, in detail, upon a number of episodes during which union struggles and community involvement coalesced. She explores the dynamic between district and local levels of the union, and the tensions that accompanied a progressive rationalization of bargaining machinery. This book will be of interest to students of history and sociology.

Author : Brian Elliot
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783036967

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South Yorkshire Mining Disasters by Brian Elliot Pdf

In the period that we now call the Industrial Revolution mining disasters wrecked the lives of thousands of South Yorkshire families and devastated entire communities. The Husker pit flooding of 1838 in which 26 young girls and boys were killed shocked Victorian society and and was a significant factor in the 1842 Report on Employment of Women and Children in Mines; but earlier, long forgotten disasters are also explored. The Barnsley area was particularly hard-hit during the middle decades of the century with major mining accidents, usually great explosions of firedamp occurring, for example, at Lundhill Colliery (189 men and boys killed); Oaks (361 fatalities, Britains worst pit disaster) and Swaithe Main (143 dead). Scenes of grief, mourning and remarkable heroism provided spectacular copy for Victorian newspapers and magazines such as The Illustrated London News, focusing on the very uncertain and dangerous life of the miner. Despite the importance and widespread occurrence of South Yorkshire mining disasters, which also included dreadful winding accidents and gas emissions, their story has never been told in a single volume.

Author : Brian Elliott
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781473834651

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Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors by Brian Elliott Pdf

“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.

Author : Quentin Outram,Keith Laybourn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319629056

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Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland by Quentin Outram,Keith Laybourn Pdf

This edited collection examines the concept and nature of the ‘people’s martyrology’, raising issues of class, community, religion and authority. It examines modern martyrdom through studies of Peterloo; Tolpuddle; Featherstone; Tonypandy; Emily Davison, fatally injured by the King’s horse on Derby Day, 1913; the 1916 Easter Rising; Jarrow, ‘the town that was murdered, and martyred in the 1930s’; David Oluwale, a Nigerian killed in Leeds in 1965; and Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who died in 1981. It engages with the burgeoning historiography of memory to try to understand why some events, such as Peterloo, Tonypandy and the Easter Rising, have become household names whilst others, most notably Featherstone and Oluwale, are barely known. It will appeal to those interested in British and Irish labour history, as well as the study of memory and memorialization.

Author : Peter Carter,Mr John B Smethurst
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409480310

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Historical Directory of Trade Unions by Peter Carter,Mr John B Smethurst Pdf

This is the final volume in the Historical Directory of Trade Unions series. It provides a comprehensive list of all British unions that operated within the building, construction, chemical, dock, maritime, engineering, government, mining, quarry, and shipbuilding industries.

Author : Michael R. Watts
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191017568

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The Dissenters by Michael R. Watts Pdf

This third and final volume of Michael Watts's study of dissent examines the turbulent times of Victorian Nonconformity, a period of faith and of doubt. Watts assesses the impacts of the major Dissenting preachers and provides insights into the various movements, such as romanticism and the higher, often German, biblical criticism. He shows that the preaching of hell and eternal damnation was more effective in recruiting to the chapels than the gentler interpretations. A major feature of the volume is a thorough analysis of surviving records of attendance at Nonconformist services. He provides fascinating accounts of Spurgeon and the other key figures of Nonconformity, including of the Salvation Army. Dr Watts also provides a fresh discussion of the contribution which Nonconformity made to the politics of mid- to late-Victorian Britain. He examines such issues of reform as Forster's Education Act of 1871, temperance, and Balfour's Education Act of 1902, and considers Nonconformist interventions in such controversies as the Bulgarian Agitation, Home Rule for Ireland, the Armenian massacres of the mid 1890s, and the Boer War. The volume concludes with the Liberal landslide in the 1906 general election, which saw probably more Nonconformists elected than any time since the era of Oliver Cromwell.

Author : Frank Machin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : LCCN:a59007753

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The Yorkshire Miners, a History by Frank Machin Pdf

Author : James David James
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781474469586

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Centennial History of the Independent Labour Party by James David James Pdf

A History of the Independent Labour Party

Author : John B. Smethurst,Peter Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351930765

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Historical Directory of Trade Unions: v. 6: Including Unions in: - Edited Title by John B. Smethurst,Peter Carter Pdf

First Published in 2017. Volume 6 of the directory contains the Trade Unions of Building and Construction, Agriculture, Fishing, Chemicals, Wood and Woodworking, Transport, Engineering and Metal Working, Government, Civil and Public Service, Energy and Extraction in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Shipbuilding.

Author : Roy A. Church,Quentin Outram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521894034

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Strikes and Solidarity by Roy A. Church,Quentin Outram Pdf

A multi disciplinary study of British coalminers strike activity, first published in 1998.

Author : Patricia Lynch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191555107

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The Liberal Party in Rural England 1885-1910 by Patricia Lynch Pdf

This book explores the relationship between the British Liberal party and the rural working-class voters enfranchised by the Third Reform Act of 1884. In contrast to many works that present urban voters as the primary agents of political change in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, this study argues that an examination of the dynamics of popular rural politics is essential to a thorough understanding of political developments in the early years of mass enfranchisement. Prior to 1914, capturing a substantial portion of the rural vote was essential to any political party seeking to establish a strong Parliamentary majority; and the Liberal party, coming from a traditionally strong urban base, had to work particularly hard to meet the expectations of the new rural electorate. The book shows that popular political culture in the English countryside was dominated by two important, and sometimes conflicting, traditions: on the one hand, a history of radical social protest, emphasizing attacks on the privileges of landowning elites, and on the other, a widespread concern for the harmony of the local community, coupled with a suspicion of unnecessary divisiveness. The attempt to appeal simultaneously to both of these facets of rural political culture helps to explain not only why the Liberals continued to launch rhetorical attacks on the landed aristocracy and to promote schemes of land reform long after one might have expected them to have switched to a more 'modern' emphasis on class politics, but also why the 'New Liberal' emphasis on the politics of community carried such broad electoral appeal at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book suggests, finally, that in focusing primarily on urban democratization, historians of this period may have exaggerated the role of class allegiances in shaping popular political opinion and underestimated the continuities between 'Old' and 'New' Liberalism.

Author : Andrew Thorpe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137409843

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A History of the British Labour Party by Andrew Thorpe Pdf

After 13 years in power, Labour suddenly returned to being the party of opposition in 2010. This new edition of A History of the British Labour Party brings us up-to-date, examining Gordon Brown's period in office and the Labour Party under the leadership of Ed Miliband. Andrew Thorpe's study has been the leading single-volume text on the Labour Party since its first edition in 1997 and has now been thoroughly revised throughout to include new approaches. This new edition: - Covers the entirety of the party's history, from 1900 to 2014. - Examines the reasons for the party's formation, and its aims. - Analyses the party's successes and failures, including its rise to second party status and remarkable recovery from its problems in the 1980s. - Discusses the main events and personalities of the Labour Party, such as MacDonald, Attlee, Wilson, Blair and Brown. With his approachable style and authoritative manner, Thorpe has created essential reading for students of political history, and anyone wishing to familiarise themselves with the history and development of one of Britain's major political parties.