Martin Bulmer - Mining and Social Change: Durham County in the Twentieth Century

Mining and Social Change: Durham County in the Twentieth Century — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Mining and Social Change: Durham County in the Twentieth Century" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...88

Routledge Revivals

Mining and Social Change

The strong community ties of mining villages are the central concern of this book, which deals with the social history and sociology of mining in County Durham in the twentieth century. Focusing on the country as a whole, this title, first published in 1978, asks what is most distinctive about the area in the past and how it is changing in the present.

The personal documents presented in the first chapters of the book bring to life the local mining community with an evocative picture of village life at the turn of the century. These first-hand accounts are integrated with the results of social research carried out at Durham University over a number of years.

Mining and Social Change will be of interest to students of history and sociology.

Mining and Social Change

Durham County in the Twentieth Century

Edited by

Martin Bulmer

First published in 1978

by Croom Helm Ltd.

This edition first published in 2015 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

and by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

1978 Croom Helm Limited

The right of Martin Bulmer to be identified as editor of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Publishers Note

The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent.

Disclaimer

The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and welcomes correspondence from those they have been unable to contact.

A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 78306300

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-90330-2 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-1-315-69698-0 (ebk)

Mining and Social Change

DURHAM COUNTY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Edited by MARTIN BULMER

1978 Croom Helm Limited

Croom Helm Ltd, 2-10 St Johns Road, London SW11

ISBN 0-85664-509-5

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Mining and social change.

1. Coal miners England Durham (County) History 2. Durham (County) Social life and customs

I. Bulmer, Martin

942.86DA670.D9

ISBN 0-85664-509-5

Printed in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, Guildford, Surrey

CONTENTS

Martin Bulmer

Martin Bulmer

Mark Benney

Sid Chaplin

Bill Williamson

Martin Bulmer

Jack Lawson

Ellis Thorpe

Graham Turner

Martin Bulmer

G.H.J. Daysh and J.S. Symonds et al

Martin Bulmer

Martin Bulmer

Peter Bowden

Ken Patton

Martin Bulmer

Martin Bulmer

Mark Benney (19101973) is best known in Britain as a writer of books such as The Big Wheel (1940), Over to Bombers (1943) and Goal Delivery (1948). His life is told in two fascinating volumes of autobiography, Low Company (1936) and Almost a Gentleman (1966). As a social scientist he achieved distinction in both Britain and America. In addition to writing Charity Main: a coalfield chronicle (1946), he was on the staff of the London School of Economics (194951), where he wrote How People Vote (1954). At the University of Chicago in the 1950s he collaborated in a research project on the sociology of the interview with David Riesman.

Peter J. Bowden is Senior Economist with the Tariff Board, Federal Government of Canada. In 19534 he was Research Officer with the North-East Industrial and Development Association, publishing Development Area Policy in the North-East of England (with E. Allen and A.J. Odber) in 1957. From 1954 to 1957 he was Senior Planning Assistant with Durham County Council, responsible for industrial promotion. After teaching economic history at Sheffield University, he returned to Durham in 19634 as Rowntree Research Fellow. From 1964 to 1968, before moving to Canada, he was Senior Research Fellow in the Business Research Unit, Durham University, working on a report on Economic Growth in North-East England for the DEA (with A.A. Gibb, 1967), a study of industrial retraining, and a study of Newton Aycliffe supported by the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust.

Martin Bulmer, who was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is Lecturer in Social Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously he was at Durham University, from 196870 as Rowntree Research Fellow, and from 197074 as Lecturer in Sociology. He has also edited Working Class Images of Society (1975), and Sociological Research Methods (1977).

Sid Chaplin, who was born in Shildon in County Durham, is a well-known north-eastern writer and novelist who lives in Newcastle. His novels include The Thin Seam (1950), The Big Room (1960), The Day of the Sardine (1961), The Watchers and the Watched (1962), and Sam in the Morning (1965). He has also written, with A. Plater and A. Glasgow, the musical entertainment about the coal industry Close the Coal House Door (1969), and two volumes of essays, The Smell of Sunday Dinner (1971) and A Tree with Rosy Apples (1972). He comes from a mining family in County Durham, and began life as a screen boy at the local pit, later becoming a blacksmith and underground maintenance mechanic.

G.H.J. Daysh, who lives in the Tyne valley, is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he taught for 36 years and became Deputy Vice-Chancellor. His publications include surveys of both the North-East and West Cumberland, initially when these areas were designated as Special Areas in the 1930s, and in conjunction with the Commissioners for the Special Areas. West Durham (1953) was a study made possible by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation at a time when Professor Daysh was Adviser to the Northern Industrial Group and the North-East Development Association. J.S. Symonds, co-author of West Durham, was the Research Officer for this investigation.

Jack Lawson (18811965) was born at Whitehaven in Cumberland, moved with his parents to County Durham in the 1880s, and went to work at Boldon Colliery in 1893 at the age of twelve. He was Labour Member of Parliament for the Chester-le-Street Division from 1919 to 1949, a junior minister in the Labour governments of 1924 and 192931, and Secretary of State for War from 1945 to 1946. Created Lord Lawson of Beamish in 1950, he was Lord Lieutenant of the County of Durham from 1949 to 1958. In addition to the biography of Peter Lee, he also wrote a volume of autobiography,

Next page

1234567...88

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Mining and Social Change: Durham County in the Twentieth Century»

Look at similar books to Mining and Social Change: Durham County in the Twentieth Century. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Archibald Cronin

The Stars Look Down

Sethulego Matebesi

Social Licensing and Mining in South Africa

Swent

One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California

Sourav De

Advanced Data Mining Tools and Methods for Social Computing

Brij B Gupta (editor)

Data Mining Approaches for Big Data and Sentiment Analysis in Social Media (Advances in Data Mining and Database Management)

Donald L. Hardesty

Mining Archaeology in the American West: A View from the Silver State

Raphael Samuel (editor)

Village Life and Labour

Russell

Mining the social web [data mining Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+, Github, and more

Walls

Alabama gold: a history of the souths last mother lode

Jones

South Yorkshire mining villages: a history of the regions former coal mining communities

Shawn Hall

Old heart of Nevada: ghost towns and mining camps of Elko County

Matthew A. Russell

Mining the Social Web: Finding Needles in the Social Haystack

Discussion, reviews of the book Mining and Social Change: Durham County in the Twentieth Century and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.