October 6, 2025
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May 31, 2025
New Members Area
The new member's area has now been released. This is now on a separate website mining-history.uk, and is linked from the "Members Area" menu item above. All current members will have been provided with access to this. This site is not complete and will take time to build. Most of the records…
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May 6, 2025
Latest monograph published
The history of fluorspar mining in the Northern Pennines has received relatively little attention from historians; Swiss Aluminium UK Ltd's part in this is usually dismissed in a few lines. Yet despite their short presence, the company carried out one of the most intensive and influential mining campaigns there. In…
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December 1, 2024
Latest copy of British Mining published
British Mining No. 118 - Memoirs 2024 Papers in Memoirs 2024 are: Bretby Colliery - Nigel A. Chapman Rimington: Ribblesdale’s lost silver mine - Brian Lee The Clogau Gold Mine - R.M. Callender Dr Arthur Raistrick and his contribution to mining history - Richard Smith James Twyford: Somerset’s Agricola - Steve Grudgings and Ian Casteldine…
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January 14, 2024
Plans of collieries
We have been sent a number of coal mine plans for the website by Lee Reynolds who copies these from the originals. These plans are presented using an app which allows you to zoom in/out with your scroll wheel and drag by holding down your mouse's left button and moving…
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December 5, 2023
Database of Mining Deaths & Injuries
After a long time in preparation, the first part of our database on UK mining deaths and injuries is now available covering the years 1900-1991. The data, supplied mainly by Ian Winstanley with additions by Ray Lawrence, NMRS records and others runs to 86,701 records and is fully searchable. The…
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February 3, 2023
The Third International Early Engines Conference (IEEC3)
The Third International Early Engines Conference (IEEC3) Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life: 22-24 March 2024 Please note that the Northern Mine Research Society are only a sponsor of this conference. Conference Details and Call for Papers Building on the success of our previous conferences, we are delighted to confirm…
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September 15, 2020
Accident & Disasters Reports 1658-1979
Accident & Disasters Reports 1658-1979, provided by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre, have been added to the website. While there are around 740 of these, they are not a complete list. Each report, created from various sources like the official report, articles in the Colliery Guardian,…
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April 7, 2020
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Parkside Colliery – Graham Carr
April 7, 2020
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