It is almost impossible to exaggerate the role that the coal industry played in Vic-torian (and Edwardian) Britain. 1. Coal,along with cotton, was the driving force of the British industrial revolution, and had an impact, directly and indirectly, upon the lives of everybody in the country. e bare statistics alone attest to the

Th e fi rst section of this volume (pp. 1–105) aims to convey the awfulness of the risks run by colliery owners and managers in nineteenth-century Britain. Th e most obvious were the risks to life and limb arising from colliery accidents. Colliery accidents involved managers as well as miners and the fi rst part of this.

The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1830–1922 covers the period between the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), and the Grouping, the amalgamation of almost all of Britain's many railway companies into the Big Four by the Railways Act 1921.

The railways were to transform Victorian Britain and their development went hand-in-hand with two key industries: iron and coal production. The audio resources on this page explore three...

Before construction of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, canals were the primary mode of transport to ship and receive coal from the various collieries throughout Tyneside. However, after Richard Trevithick’s locomotive trials on the Pen-y-daren …

2024年10月28日 · This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry. Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization.

The need to transport coal cheaply stimulated the development of the canal system. The Duke of Bridgewater showed the way in 1759, when he commissioned James Brindley to construct a canal into...

british library cataloguing in publication data. Coal in Victorian Britain. Part 2, Volumes 4–6. 1. Coal trade – Great Britain – History – 19th century – Sources. 2. Coal mines and mining – Great Britain – History – 19th century – Sources. 3. Coal – Environmental aspects – Great Britain – History – 19th century ...

of Transport'(1900) 157 Henry S. C. Ree, 'Mechanical Appliances Used in the Shipping of Coal at the Bute Docks, Cardiff' (1906) 163 ... viii Coal in Victorian Britain, Volume 3 The British State in a Coal-Powered World 271 The Naval Conversion to Coal 'Our Screw-Navy', Chambers's Journal (1859) 277 Coaling Stations

Coal in Victorian Britain, Volume 2 CONTENTS Introduction xi The State and Property 1 Edward R. Hartley, Socialism and Coal (1909) 7 'State Control of South Wales Coal', Colliery-Guardian (1916) 19 'Notes from the Coalfields', Colliery Guardian (1916) 25 'Significance of the South Wales Settlement', Colliery Guardian (1916) 29 Land 33