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Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Paperback, New)
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Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
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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.
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