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On the afternoon of 10 December 2019, the New Directions in Coal Mining History in UK and Japan group visited the Omuta City Library. Omuta,

At the site of the Mikawa mine in Kyushu Japan, a former manrider that had driven people down the drift sits rusting. Nearby other...

Towering above the Ayrshire landscape off the road passing the country house of James Boswell’s father to the village of Auchinleck...

To get to the records of the National Coal Board, you have to go to the National Archives, near Kew Gardens. On your way into the archive...

In July 1977, a young black man started training at Markham Colliery. We know this because the Markham Manager wrote to the Derbyshire...

Sakubei Yamamoto was born in 1892 and loved painting as a child, but like the rest of his family he had to work in the Chikuho coal mine....

In April 2018 two members of the project team — Professor Keith Gildart and Dr Ben Curtis — travelled to Shanghai to participate in a...

On Saturday 13 July 2019, a group of Japanese scholars from the Japan Association for the Study of Former Coalfields (JAFCOF) marched...

On 9 May 2019, scholars from around the country gathered at the University of Wolverhampton for a Centre for the History of Retailing and...

The ‘On behalf of the People’ project has had a panel accepted for the 2019 Oral History Society Conference in Swansea. We were very...

In 1957, Glenys Hunt was 22 and working as a tracer within the planning department in Bestwood Colliery, Nottingham. She took a further...

The National Union of Mineworkers headquarters sits on a busy intersection opposite a series of training cafes in a plate glass Barnsley...

On 1 January 1947 the British coal industry was formally brought under state control with signs at collieries erected declaring that they...