The Riches Beneath Our Feet. How mining shaped Britain
Details:
- Author(s) Coyle, Geoff
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2010
- Pages 267pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
A broad account of mining and quarrying in Britain by a former colliery manager who spent some of his early career in the coal industry. Considers how mining and people engaged in it 'have shaped Britain over many centuries'. Deals with the mining process, the miners, the materials mined, mine owners, accidents; mining communities; etc