Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield, 1200-1900
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- Author(s) Owen, Colin C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1984
- Pages 321pp; illus
- Publisher Moorland Publishing for Leicestershire Museums
- Place Published Ashbourne
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly, wide ranging account of the industry, much focused on the business of mining rather than on the miners, their working conditions, safety, etc. Chapters include: 'Geology of the coalfield'; 'Emergence of the coalfield, 1200-1560'; 'The Elizabethan revolution, 1560-1620'; 'The coalfield in the seventeenth century, 1620-1690'; 'Expansion and steam power, 1690-1760'; 'The emergence of modern coalmining, 1760-1790'; 'The coalfield during the canal era, 1790-1830'; 'The railway age, 1830-1860'; 'The coalfield approaches its peak, 1860-1900'