South Yorkshire Mining Villages - A History of the Region's Former Coal Mining Communities
by Jones, Melvyn
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- ISBN 10
- 1473880777
- ISBN 13
- 9781473880771
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Pen and Sword History. As New. 2017. Paperback. 1473880777 . This specific paperback book is in like new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "Over a period of more than 150 years between the late eighteenth century and the 1930s the South Yorkshire rural landscape was transformed by coal mining and the movement of coal. But it was not just the development of collieries, canals and railways that caused this transformation. The population of the coalfield grew at a phenomenal rate and the new mining population, many of them migrants from other parts of the country, had to be housed near to the collieries where they worked. Small residential colonies were built near the new collieries, existing rural villages expanded, new satellite villages were established and completely new mining communities were created, the later ones carefully planned and laid out in the form of geometrically designed estates. This copiously illustrated book explores the history of the physical and social development of these very varied mining communities, drawing on a wide variety of sources. It is the first book to cover this subject and includes topics such as the settlement that was specifically built for blackleg miners, the development in one village of a large Welsh-speaking colony, how Earl Fitzwilliam housed his colliers and their families and the views of well-known writers like Fred Kitchen, Roger Dataller and George Orwell on the colliery villages. The book will be of great interest not only to readers living in South Yorkshire but also to the descendants of South Yorkshire miners now living in other parts of the country and elsewhere."; 7 X 0.25 X 10 inches; 160 pages .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25810
- Title
- South Yorkshire Mining Villages - A History of the Region's Former Coal Mining Communities
- Author
- Jones, Melvyn
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 1473880777
- ISBN 13
- 9781473880771
- Publisher
- Pen and Sword History
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- 1473880777, British Mining History, British Mining Village, South Yorkshire Mining Villages, Coal Mining Community, British Coal Industry
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