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Killed in a Coalpit Vol II
£25
For over half a century D P Lindegaard has been researching the family histories and genealogy of the poor, the unsung and overlooked coal miners, who don’t usually make it into the history books. This book is a follow on from her first volume of Killed in a Coalpit and gives more information about the miners and their lives, especially of the women. This is a brand new book recently issued in Hardback.
Author: D P Lindegaard
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The coal industry in Somerset has a rich and ancient legacy. due to the county having a pleasant and mainly rural aspect, the contribution of its collieries to its economic and social history is not widely appreciated. There are insightful economic and technical accounts of the coal mining industryu and the operation of the mines of Somerset, but these provide few details of the lives of the men who tiled underground. If one, or several of these, are identified at all, it is usually because of an accident. They have been killed or badly injured in the pit. The author say this as a wrong which needed to be righted and it was her starting point. In the event the book uncovers many colourful additions in the doings above ground, and includes the lives and roles of women in the coal mining districts who were, as a general rule, even more forgotten than the men. Hopefully this book will provide a useful tool for researchers, and for others, act as a reminder of times past, both good and bad.
