the mines of scotland a bibliography

A Bibliography of Temporal, Spatial and Spatio

May 10, 2010A Bibliography of Temporal, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining Research John F. Roddick Myra Spiliopoulou School of Computer and Information Science Institut fr Wirschaftsinformatik University of South Australia, The Levels Campus Humboldt-Universitt, Berlin Mawson Lakes, South Australia 5095, Australia. Get price

Bibliography of Scottish Coal Mining History

A History Of The Scottish Coal Mining Industry In Scotland With Special Reference To The Cambuslang District Of Lanarkshire. Glasgow: R.E. Robertson, Ltd., 1943. Campbell, Alan B. 'Honourable Men And Degraded Slaves: A Comparative Study Of Trade Unionism In Two Lanarkshire Mining Communities, c. 1830-1874,' INDEPENDENT COLLIER: THE COAL MINER AS Get price

National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a trade union for coal miners in Great Britain, formed in 1945 from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB). The NUM took part in three national miners' strikes, in 1972, 1974 and 1984–85.After the 1984–85 strike and the subsequent closure of most of Britain's coal mines, it became a much smaller union. Get price

The Newfoundland Story

By the Early Devonian (410 million years ago), Laurentia and Gondwana had collided, forming a huge, new continent. Across the middle of the continent, where the Iapetus Ocean had once been, there was a mountain range, and halfway along this lay what is now Newfoundland. Get price

Gemstones in the UK

Dec 09, 2014The United Kingdom is a densely populated country that encompasses a small area of approximately 243,000 square kilometers. The UK includes England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Scotland almost became independent in September 2014, however, a majority vote by Scottish residents ruled that Scotland would remain part of the UK. Get price

Exclusion Of Mines Minerals The Considerations

Reservations of mines and minerals have come into sharp focus over the last year, and pose a new challenge for developers. Minerals owners such as the Church Commissioners and the Crown have made a large number of applications around the country to register their titles to mines and minerals arising from ancient manorial rights. Get price

Cornwall: The rise and fall of industrialisation

Cornwall: The rise and fall of industrialisation. My research for this part of the project will mainly revolve around how Cornwall became an affluent region during it's industrialization in the 1600-1800s, and how the collapse of these industries resulted in a largely impoverished county Get price

Research Bibliography of Published Materials Relating to

Research Bibliography of Published Materials Relating to the Coal Dispute 1984-85 ANDREW GREEN* INTRODUCTION So much has been - and continues to be - written about the coal dispute that a comprehensive bibliography is not yet possible. This selective bibliography aims to list the most important sources, up to August 1985, for the study of the Get price

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Your Scottish Coal Mining

mining ancestors and the conditions in which they lived and worked. There has been coal mining in Scotland for over a thousand years, operating in tens of thousands of pits. Scottish mining saw its peak in the early years of the twentieth century, during which 10% of the Scottish population was involved in the industry. Few detailed Get price

Vol. 19 (1987), Nos. 2

bibliographies of Carlson and Calkins were weakest.1 It also mines European literature, making it valuable to those interested in the trans-Atlantic connections of these vernacular forms. The 3,346 entries are arranged chronologically by publication date in a series of chapters ranging from geographical ones, such as Barns of England, Scotland, Get price

Chartism: Localities, Spaces and Places, The North

Jan 07, 2016Chartism: Localities, Spaces and Places, The North, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, Richard Brown, Authoring History, 2015, paperback, 408 pp., ISBN 9781517788988 J.M.W. Turner's romanticised depiction, completed in 1838, of vessels being unloaded in the Dee estuary with the first of Edward I's castles at Flint symbolising the eventual subjugation of medieval Wales by the English Get price

Industries of Scotland

Recollections of Scotland's Past - Coal Mining. The earliest documents in which it is mentioned are The Saxon Chronicle of Peterborough, written in the year 852, and Bishop Pudsey's Boldon Book, dated 1180. Newcastle coal is first alluded to in a charter granted to the inhabitants of the town in 1234, conferring the right to dig the mineral. Get price

Bothwellhaugh

Pre-mining History. The remains of the Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort and a Roman bath house were found in the park; it is around a day's march from the Antonine Wall. James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, became notorious for being the assassin of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland, at Linlithgow in 1570.. Mining Village. There were two coal mines on the site operated by the Bent Get price

CiteSeerX — A Gazetteer to the Metal Mines of Scotland

CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): This is the fourth edition of this work. I have checked most of my original references and located further mines and trials using the internet. I hope that I have been able to provide more accurate map references. However, most of the entries have only a six figure map references and so may be a little way off. Get price

SI

Mine is! That doesn't mean that either the historians or your grannie is wrong. You do need to be aware of the big picture to do well with family history. Many a brick wall is composed of erroneous assumptions. Scotland. Most Ulster Scots were in Scotland before they migrated to Ireland. MOST but not ALL.. Get price

Geology of Great Britain

Geological Maps of Scotland (with some brief introductory information) Much of northern Scotland is occupied by old hard rocks, listed in the legend of the map as 27 - Archaean (Pre-Cambrian) and Metamorphic; 27a Torridonian. These strata are indeed largely Precambrian, perhaps with some Cambrian, but not necessarily as old as Archaean. Get price

King Charles' Personal Rule, 1629

King Charles' Personal Rule, 1629-40 A fter the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham and the dissolution of the 1629 Parliament, King Charles resolved never to call a Parliament again. The eleven-year period of the King's Personal Rule (1629-40) was described by Get price

Fife

Fife Other Fife resources on this site: There are extensive extracts on Fife in the 1842 Commission reports and also the Mining District Reports. Fife housing is covered in the 1875 Notes on Miners' Housing and the 1918 Royal Commission Report. Information on the Fife Coal company, including lists of veteran employees can be found here.The following parishes have their own pages: Get price

The Habitat of the Eurypterida/Bibliography

Nov 07, 2012The Geology of the Neighborhood of Edinburgh. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Scotland. Peach, Benjamin and Horne, John. 213. 1880. The Old Red Sandstone of Orkney. Read before Royal Physical Soc. 21 April, 1880, 15 pp. 214. 1898. New Discoveries in the Silurian and Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. Get price

Feasibility and Viability of Landfill Mining and

This scoping study was undertaken by Ricardo-AEA on behalf of Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS) in the period August 2012 to April 2013. The study was commissioned to assist ZWS and the Scottish Government in the feasibility assessment of the potential for the mining and reclamation of materials from landfill sites in Scotland. Get price

Timelines Index

Timeline Index. T he Timelines section gives a chronological overview of the entire time period covered by this site. Timelines range from general outlines covering political, religious and military developments to detailed yearly breakdowns that give day-to-day coverage of events. Get price

Historic Overview Mid

BIBLIOGRAPHY Bache, A. D. 1863 Map of the State of ia. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Boye, Herman 1825—1859 Map of the State of ia. ia Division of Historic Landmarks, Richmond, ia. Buzzo, Joseph 1858 Mid-Lothian Coal Mines, ia—Cornish Pumping Engine, Journal of the Franklin Institute: 26—30. Get price

Leadhills

Leadhills is a small village nestling in a high valley in the Lowther Hills. Designated an ancient monument (can you believe that?), Leadhills had a long history, with the neighbouring village of Wanlockhead, as a major lead mining centre until the industry's decline in the 1930s. Since then, Leadhills has had mixed fortunes though more recently, has experienced something of a revival and is Get price

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Welcome to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Over 60,000 biographies, 72 million words, 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history – perform advanced search; Life of the day now available by email or RSS feed.; Have questions about how to use the redesigned website? Get price

NAMHO

Active mine explorers will also find guidance on managing archaeological finds underground as well as how to lead groups of novices and experienced explorers. Armchair miners are also catered for with an extensive bibliography. Some parts of the site need a password to enter. If you want to see these, please contact the Webmaster. Get price