Coal power was a critical factor in the British-born Industrial Revolution of the 18th century, but it wasn’t until 1882 that the British opened the first public coal power plant. The closure is ...

Lindsey Hopkins, 75, is one of the more than 3,000 former miners that could be affected and said the government had "thrown ...

As a labor lawyer and community advocate in Southern West Virginia, I was inspired recently by visiting the coalfields in the ...

Coal mining has been an essential part of British industry since Roman times. This collection looks at the hardship of the day-to-day toil beneath the earth as well as the effects of industrial ...

No jobs and poor homes: 40 years after the pits closed, Britain's mining towns still suffer ...

THE annual meeting of the British Coal Utilisation Research Association was held in London on December 15, 1943. In his presidential address, Sir Evan Williams, Bart., gave an account of the ...

IN this volume Prof. Gardner has collected a series of lectures and addresses delivered on the British coal-tar industry and allied subjects during the last fifty years. These discourses fall ...

The ruling, and four other test cases that were settled out of court, have been hailed by lawyers as a "pivotal milestone" in a group action for over 260 ex-British Coal coke oven workers.

However, no date was set by the government to look at a similar surplus in the separate British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme (BCSSS), which campaigners say is unfair. Ex-miner Michael Devine ...