Coal Mining Books for auction on EBay

This list is a quirky collection of links I have encountered while searching the web for genealogical and historical resources concerning coalmining and coalminers. It is reflective of my personal interests and does not pretend to be comprehensive or objective. I do not list sites which do not have a genealogical or historical component.

• Chamber of Mines of SA: Educational Resources

• Illawarra Coal - An Unofficial History of Coal Mining in the Illawarra
• Historian to examine mining disasters (Australia)
• Series 38.03 Letter received by Banks from John Hunter, 20 August 1796
• Robertson, James Robert Millar - Biographical entry

• Blegny-Mine
• Mining Museum - Maison d'Owen
• Charbonnage du Hainaut

• Cambria Publishing ~ CoalDust Grins ~ Portraits of Canadian Miners
• Coal Association of Canada has coal information for mostly current production and economics, but there is some material on history of production.


Alberta
• Resources of Alberta


British Columbia
• The British Columbia Archives has a number of sources and lots of material, including a "death index".
• COAL MINERS MEMORIAL - (Michel, Natal and Sparwood)


New Brunswick

Nova Scotia
• Geology and History of Coal in Nova Scotia
• History of Coal Mining in Nova Scotia
• The Colliery Route (NS)
• Pit Pony the site associated with the CBC movie about Nova Scotia mines.
• Westray Mine Disaster Index the best site for Westray and the 26 miners.
• American Coal Fields; The Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Other Coal Fields. (1858)


China
• China Coal Information Institute


France
• ...:::Mineur de Fond:::...
• Association de Sauvegarde des Chevalements Les Graves-Bayard
• THE LEWARDE HISTORICAL MINING CENTRE
• The Gohelle
• Mineur de fond, les dernières mines de charbon en France
• Site de l'association Ste Barbe des Mines
• SALON INTERNATIONAL DE L'OBJET MINIER


Germany
• Die Zechen im Ruhrgebiet - Bergbau an Ruhr, Emscher und Lippe
• Pro-Bergbau - DIE Mailsammlung für die deutsche Steinkohle !
  
  The Netherlands
• Coal Mining in the Netherlands_ Steenkolenwinning in Nederland


New Zealand
• Roa Mining Company Ltd


United Kingdom
• Mines Rescue UK
• Coalmining Research Services
• BRITISH MINING DATABASE
• Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd.
• Women in the British Mines by Rev. T. M. Eddy (1854)
• COALMING RESOURCE CENTRE A Database of Mining Deaths in Great Britain
  and Mining Disasters in Great Britain
• Landmark Publishing


England
• South Kirkby Colliery Disaster Documents
• Durham Mining Museum
  (if this doesn't work, try HERE)
• Forest of Dean Coal Mining
• A Coal Mine Dad? Pitwork?
• Coal mining heritage
• Yorkshire Coal mining heritage
• A Local History and Mining Site for North Derbyshire
• A Miners Son - The North East Derbyshire Coal Mines
• Wet Earth Colliery at Clifton, Manchester
• Haig Colliery Mining Museum
• The Meadow Colliery, the history of mining in Coalbrookdale, Telford, Shropshire
• National Coal Mining Museum for England
• WHEATLEY HILL HISTORY
• Poynton Collieries: Introduction
• Seaham Colliery
• Woodhorn Colliery Museum
• Nottinghamshire
• Coal Mining and Railway History in North Eastern England
• County Durham Communities
• Beamish Museum, Durham
• Bearpark (near Durham City)
• List of the Victims of the Wood Pit Explosion Haydock, 1878
• Wakefield, Yorkshire information
• Collieries in Northumberland and Durham


Scotland
• Lady Victoria Colliery
• Grampian Speleological Society Library - Mining Section
• Midlothian and Eastern Scotland
• Redding Pit Disaster


Wales
• Welsh Coal Mines
• Gwent Coal Mines
• Bedwas Navigation Colliery, South Wales Coalfield
• A List of Mines in Pembrokeshire and the adjoining parts of Carmarthen and Ceredigion.
• The South Wales Coal Field Collection essentialy an archive of all of the information about coal mining in Glamorgan and surrounding counties.
• A Pitman's Wedding by James Wight
• A Welsh Mining Feud by James Wight (1875)


United States
• Coal Miner Stamp Web Site
• Turn-of-the-Century Coal Mining Machinery
• Pictoral Essay on Coal Mining
• Index of /projects/Coal/ (Ohio State University)
• Mining USA
• Mine Safety and Health Administration
• AMONG THE COAL Miners
• FDR - Address to Coal Miners
• Suzanne Tallichet - Researcher of Female Coal Miners
• USGS Mapping Information: GNIS Data Base Query Form


Alabama

Arkansas
• Coal Mining in Johnson County


California
• A California Coal Mine by Charles S. Greene (1898)
• Tesla


Colorado
• Slaughter in Serene: the Columbine Coal Strike Reader
• Trinidad, Colorado: Features - Coal Miners Memorial


Idaho
• Success Mining Company (Idaho)


Illinois
• Mining (Saline County, Illinois)
• Welcome to the Coal Museum


Iowa
• Coalville, Iowa Homepage


Kentucky
• Kentucky Coal Miners
• Women Coal Miners In The Mines of Southeastern Kentucky
• Coal Miners in Kentucky - Roger`s World
• Achievement of Coal Miners Daughters & Sons (Kentucky)
• Coal Education Web Site (Kentucky)
• Kentucky Coal History
• Guide to Appalachian Coal Hauling Railroads


Maryland
• Western Maryland Coalfields


Ohio (click state name for commercial genealogical resources)
• Ohio Division of Mines and Reclamation


Pennsylvania (click state name for commercial genealogical resources)
• Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania
• The Minersville Area Miners Memorial
• Green is the Valley, Blue are the Hills
• Colver, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
• PA State Archives - Department of Mines and Mineral Industries
• Huber Breaker Preservation Society
• Slovenian Genealogy Society: "Pennsylvania" - Trunk 1912 - Slovenia - translation
• Hazleton, Pennsylvania
• McIntyre, PA - The Everyday Life of a Coal Mining Company Town: 1910-1947
• Schuylkill Canal
• CoalSpeak: Dictionary of the Coal Region
• New Deal Network Library (Mine War in PA)
• The Great "Bootleg" Coal Industry
• THE OVERTHROW OF THE MOLLY MAGUIRES
• Patch/Work Voices Coal and Coke Heritage Project (PennState)
• Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Papers of Joan Schrock Phillipi
• George Korson Collection (Field Recordings of the music of American coal miners)
• Tales of the Mine Country
• The Coalcracker
• Forest City Miner's Memorial
• ANTHRACITE COAL MINES AND MINING
• The Life and Work of Coal Miners
• Lattimer Massacre Centennial Commemoration
• Men and Things Underground; or, A Visit to the Coal Mines of Carbondale
• In the Coal Regions of the Schuylkill
• Punxsutawney History
• WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA COALFIELDS


Tennessee
• Dunlap TN Historic Coke Ovens Park


Utah
• Mining Subject Index -- Photograph Archives, Univ. Utah
• Coal Mining in Utah
• Winter Quarters Mine Disaster (Utah)
• Castle Gate Explosion Victims
• Mine Accident Victims Lists (UTAH)
• Underground accidents...Carbon Co., Utah
• Scofield Mine Disaster Collection, Univ. of Utah


Virginia
• POCAHONTAS EXHIBITION COAL MINE &MUSEUM
• David B. Robinson, CPA Coal Mining in Chesterfield, VA
• Dante, Virginia History


West Virginia
• Appalachian Power (Oral History)
• Coal Camp Memories of Helen, WV
• West Virginia Coal Mining
• Growing Up in a West Virginia Coal Camp
• SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA COALFIELDS
• Bramwell: Village of Millionaires (WV)
• Fatalities in West Virginia Coal Mines 1883-1925
• The Cliftonville Riot (West Virginia)

• The History of the British Coal Industry: Before 1700 : Towards the Age of Coal
• The History of the British Coal Industry: 1830-1913 : Victorian Pre-Eminence
• History of the British Coal Industry, 1913-1946: The Political Economy of Decline
• History of the British Coal Industry 1946-1982: The Nationalized Industry
• Competition in the Midwestern Coal Industry
• Beyond Nationalization: The Labor Problems of British Coal
• Coal Models and Their Use in Government Planning
• Conflict and Accommodation: Coal Miners, Steel Workers, and Socialism, 1890-1920
• Coal Hole Mystery:
• The Coal King's Slaves: A Coal Miner's Story : A Historical Novel
• The Coal Industry of the Former USSR: Coal Supply System and Industry Development
• Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930
• The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
• Coal
• Coal and the State
• Coal Is Our Life
• The Kingdom of Coal : Work, Enterprise & Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields
• Coal Mine: Work in the Mine
• Managing Industrial Decline : The British Coal Industry Between the Wars
• Dictionary of Coal Chemistry/Petrochemistry
• Daughter of the Hills : A Woman's Part in the Coal Miners' Struggle
• Economic Redevelopment in Bituminous Coal: The Special Case of Technological Advance in United..
• Appalachian Coal Mines & Railroads
• Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner
• Southern Illinois Coal : A Portfolio
• Coal
• Coal, Capital, and Culture: A Sociological Analysis of Mining Communities in West Yorkshire
• The German Tradition of Organized Capitalism : Self-Government in the Coal Industry
• Women of Coal
• Coal Miners' Wives: Portraits of Endurance
• Coal in Appalachia: An Economic Analysis
• The Economics of Kentucky Coal
• Growing Up in Coal Country
• Chinese Coal Industry - An Economic History
• Dear Mr. President: Theodore Roosevelt Letters from a Young Coal Miner
• Coal Town : The Life and Times of Dawson, New Mexico
• Independent Collier: The Coal Miner As Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered

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