The Kingdom of Coal
Author | : Donald L. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : PSU:000047258662 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
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Author | : Donald L. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : PSU:000047258662 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Author | : Dan Rottenberg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135951320 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135951322 |
Rating | : 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Carl D. Oblinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:57246160 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Author | : Lemony Snicket |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2011-06-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780061965142 |
ISBN-13 | : 0061965146 |
Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Forget Frosty the Snowman or Ruldolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The next great holiday hero is a small, flammable chunk of barbecue fodder. He's impeccably dressed, he's terribly grumpy, and he's looking for a holiday miracle. It's unmistakably Snicket - here's the opening line: This holiday season is a time for stoytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles.
Author | : Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1996 |
ISBN-10 | : 0395979145 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780395979143 |
Rating | : 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Keith Haddock |
Publisher | : Fox Chapel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2015-11-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781910456392 |
ISBN-13 | : 191045639X |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
British Opencast Coal is an illustrated history of coal mining by surface methods from 1942 to 1985. Written by Keith Haddock, a leading authority on the subject, this book details the origins of the industry and documents the types of earthmoving machines employed during the first 40 years. The book highlights the importance of surface coal mining operations and site restoration and their necessity for the British economy.Meticulously researched, the facts, figures and data covered are taken from Keith's extensive collection of magazine articles, newspaper cuttings and manufacturers' machine brochures and specifications. They are also drawn from publications by the National Coal Board Opencast Executive and Keith's own research conducted on numerous site visits. The sites included represent a cross section of geologically different locations in England, Scotland and Wales, and those employing the most interesting variety of earthmoving machines, such as Maesgwyn in South Wales, Newman Spinney in Derbyshire, Radar North in Northumberland and Ox-Bow in Yorkshire.The book's 364 historical photographs, many taken for the National Coal Board or British Coal Opencast, provide a nostalgic look at obsolete earthmoving and heavy construction equipment, and form an excellent historical resource for the student, researcher or enthusiast.
Author | : Huw Beynon |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2024-03-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781839767982 |
ISBN-13 | : 1839767987 |
Rating | : 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
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 communities after the last pits closed. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners’ Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Their defeat doomed a way of life. The lingering sense of abandonment in former mining communities would be difficult to overstate. Yet recent electoral politics has revolved around the coalfield constituencies in Labour’s Red Wall. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them. This edition includes a new postscript on why Thatcher’s war on the miners wasn’t good for green politics. ‘Excellent’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Brilliant’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Enlightening’ GUARDIAN
Author | : Madelyn Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Holiday House |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2013-04-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780823427710 |
ISBN-13 | : 0823427714 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Bitty is a canary whose courage more than makes up for his diminutive size. Of course, as a miner bird who detects deadly gas leaks in a West Virginia coal mine during the Depression, he is used to facing danger. Tired of perilous working conditions, he escapes and hops a coal train to the state capital to seek help in improving the plights of miners and their canaries. In the tradition of E.B. White, George Selden, and Beverly Cleary's Ralph S. Mouse, Madelyn Rosenberg has written a singular novel full of unforgettable characters.
Author | : Melvyn Jones |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2017-07-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781473880795 |
ISBN-13 | : 1473880793 |
Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Over a period of more than 150 years between the late eighteenth century and the 1930s the South Yorkshire rural landscape was transformed by coal mining and the movement of coal. But it was not just the development of collieries, canals and railways that caused this transformation. The population of the coalfield grew at a phenomenal rate and the new mining population, many of them migrants from other parts of the country, had to be housed near to the collieries where they worked. Small residential colonies were built near the new collieries, existing rural villages expanded, new satellite villages were established and completely new mining communities were created, the later ones carefully planned and laid out in the form of geometrically designed estates. This copiously illustrated book explores the history of the physical and social development of these very varied mining communities, drawing on a wide variety of sources. It is the first book to cover this subject and includes topics such as the settlement that was specifically built for blackleg miners, the development in one village of a large Welsh-speaking colony, how Earl Fitzwilliam housed his colliers and their families and the views of well-known writers like Fred Kitchen, Roger Dataller and George Orwell on the colliery villages. The book will be of great interest not only to readers living in South Yorkshire but also to the descendants of South Yorkshire miners now living in other parts of the country and elsewhere.
Author | : Beth Ditto |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2012-10-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780385529747 |
ISBN-13 | : 0385529740 |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
A raw and surprisingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Coal to Diamonds tells the story of Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas who found her voice. Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas—a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an eighties perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her five siblings were often left to fend for themselves. Beth spent much of her childhood as a transient, shuttling between relatives, caring for a sickly, volatile aunt she nonetheless loved, looking after sisters, brothers, and cousins, and trying to steer clear of her mother’s bad boyfriends. Her punk education began in high school under the tutelage of a group of teens—her second family—who embraced their outsider status and introduced her to safety-pinned clothing, mail-order tapes, queer and fat-positive zines, and any shred of counterculture they could smuggle into Arkansas. With their help, Beth survived high school, a tragic family scandal, and a mental breakdown, and then she got the hell out of Judsonia. She decamped to Olympia, Washington, a late-1990s paradise for Riot Grrrls and punks, and began to cultivate her glamorous, queer, fat, femme image. On a whim—with longtime friends Nathan, a guitarist and musical savant in a polyester suit, and Kathy, a quiet intellectual turned drummer—she formed the band Gossip. She gave up trying to remake her singing voice into the ethereal wisp she thought it should be and instead embraced its full, soulful potential. Gossip gave her that chance, and the raw power of her voice won her and Gossip the attention they deserved. Marked with the frankness, humor, and defiance that have made her an international icon, Beth Ditto’s unapologetic, startlingly direct, and poetic memoir is a hypnotic and inspiring account of a woman coming into her own.