Attempts to tap into these deposits once again have threatened to dig up ghosts of a painful struggle over the future of British coal. It is a battle that many thought had been settled decisively ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...