Few areas of labour history have received as much attention as the coal industry, with miners often finding themselves at the centre of studies on working-class

The British coal industry no longer exists and yet the figure of the coal miner lives on in the British cultural imagination. In feature films and documentaries

This volume tells a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian and Edwardian

The Oxford Handbook of Disability History features twenty-seven articles that span the diverse, global history of the disabled--from antiquity to today.

This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technolo