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Author Thompson, Ceri

Title From the Cradle to the Coalmine : the Story of Children in Welsh Mines
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2014
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (114 pages)
Contents Cover; List of illustrations; Chronology of important dates; Introduction; Child miners: the 1842 commission; 'Collier boys': the coal boom, 1850s to the 1920s; Mining trainees: from depression to nationalisation,1920s to the 1980s; Child miners today; Further reading; Index; Back Cover
Summary This is an accessible, richly illustrated book, telling the story of the children and young people who worked in the Welsh coalfields
Notes Print version record
Subject Coal mines and mining -- Dust control.
Mine dusts.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mining.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Coal mines and mining -- Dust control
Mine dusts
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783160556
1783160551
9781783161546
178316154X