My Ancestor Was a Coalminer
Details:
- Author(s) Tonks, David
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2010
- Pages 2nd ed; 187pp; illus
- Publisher Society of Genealogists
- Place Published London
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
First edition 2003. Guide for genealogists and family historians but much of use for business history. Structured in three parts, viz: Part 1] 'Miners and mining' - 'Coalmining in Great Britain' / 'Why is he different?' / Work' / 'How did he live?' / 'Was he church or chapel?' / 'How did he spend his leisure time' / 'Was he a Bevin Boy?' / The arts'; Part 2] 'Documentary evidence' - uses the Elemore Colliery Disaster, 1886, as a case study; Part 3] 'Sources' - 'National collections' / 'Coalfield collections' / 'Printed and digital sources'