This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, st

No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday – and what happened to mining c

First published in 1961, The Miners in Crisis and War: A History of Miners’ Federation of Great Britain from 1930 Onwards tells the story of two sharply contr