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Book Synopsis 344 a Story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster by : Andrea Finney
Download or read book 344 a Story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster written by Andrea Finney and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers three generations of the Gore family in Lancashire, England from the late 19th to the early 20th century. This title also covers the tragic loss of Elizabeth's son in the Pretoria Pit disaster of 1910, when 344 men and boys lost their lives. It tells the hardships faced by the family, tragedy and loss to people already struggling with life.
Author :David Holding (Historical researcher) Publisher :Independently Published ISBN 13 :9781076615145 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (151 download)
Book Synopsis Bleak Christmas by : David Holding (Historical researcher)
Download or read book Bleak Christmas written by David Holding (Historical researcher) and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pretoria Pit Disaster This work charts the events of the Lancashire Pretoria Pit disaster in December 1910. It reflects on the devastation it left to many local communities whose main source of employment was coal. The main sources analysed are the Home Office Report on the disaster and the Report of the Inquest. The findings are presented in a format that will supplement existing material on the event. The book will also provide a reference source both for local historians and the general reader. Dr David Holding studied history at Manchester University before entering the teaching profession in the 1970s. He taught in both state and independent sectors. During this time, he continued historical research culminating in both a Master's degree and a Doctorate. Having previously studied law, David gained a Master of Law degree in Medical Law, which enabled him to transfer to teaching legal courses at university. Since retiring, David has concentrated his research and writing on various aspects of local history, legal trials, forensic science and medico-legal topics. Why This Title? "The title of the DVD was 'Black Christmas' but for the book, I've changed it to 'Bleak Christmas'. Bleak is better because it is usually a happy time... but it wasn't. You had coffins coming left right and centre-right over Christmas... so it was a bleak Christmas. And butchers were giving away food it was so bad. How do you celebrate where there are 344 men and boys killed?" The Author's Thoughts "There are some people who believe that disasters and other tragedies are too emotive and personal to be the subject of debate, scrutiny and analysis. And, as such, they are best consigned to history. I find it very difficult to share this belief. I firmly believe that it is only by revisiting past events that one is able to fully understand the lessons of history and move forward with confidence. We owe it to future generations to preserve the legacy that history offers us and to bear testimony to those who have gone before. It is to the memory of those men and youths who lost their lives in the Pretoria disaster that this film is dedicated." (David Holding, speaking as Historical Advisor in a Steve Looker/Reel Visions film.) How The Author's Research Began "My involvement with this particular event evolved from research I carried out into several past and more recent disasters and the government response to these as a legal project. Living within the area covered by the Wigan Coalfield, I was fortunate to have the benefit of many former miners and colliery managers who provided me with valuable information. In particular, I spoke at length to a former electrician who actually worked at the Pretoria Pit until its closure in 1934. Whilst there are numerous books, articles and press reports covering this subject, 'Bleak Christmas' provides an alternative approach to the topic. Having literally ploughed through the entire Inquest and Home Office Reports of the disaster, this encouraged me to produce this book in a format which whilst accurately reflecting the findings in these two substantial reports, it is also presented in a format that captures the event in a sequential manner. The reader is taken on a journey through the various stages of the event to capture the enormity of the disaster. The work culminates with an overview of the devastating social and economic input the disaster had on the local communities involved. My overall aim in this work has been to provide readers with a readable yet balanced appraisal of the disaster, with sufficient evidence for them to arrive at their own conclusions regarding the disaster. My work does not diminish or undermine the views held by residents of the communities involved, who have to live with the memory of this devastating tragedy."
Book Synopsis 344 - Inspired by the Diaries of Elizabeth Gore 1844-1923 by : Andrea Jane Finney
Download or read book 344 - Inspired by the Diaries of Elizabeth Gore 1844-1923 written by Andrea Jane Finney and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pretoria Pit Disaster by : Alan Davies
Download or read book The Pretoria Pit Disaster written by Alan Davies and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic and chilling story of Lancashire's worst coal mining accident, which was also the third worst mining disaster in British history.
Book Synopsis Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–1947 by : Alan Campbell
Download or read book Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–1947 written by Alan Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The near destruction of the coal industry and the NUM offers a timely vantage point from which to appraise their history. This book presents a collection of specially commissioned essays by leading authorities on miners' history, which challenge the stereotypical imagery of miners' solidarity and loyalty to the Labour Party. This book examines the politics of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the unique influences of syndicalism and communism within some of its constituent areas, and the uneven pace of the Labour Party's 'forward march' within the coalfields. Such national developments are then studied within their diverse regional contexts through a series of case studies which permits comparison between the major British coalfields. Finally, the book considers the attempts to overcome these regional diversities with the formation of the National Union of Mineworkers and the nationalisation of the mining industry.
Book Synopsis In Memory of the Great Colliery Disaster at Pretoria Pit, Atherton, Near Bolton, December 21st, 1910 by : W. G. Griggs
Download or read book In Memory of the Great Colliery Disaster at Pretoria Pit, Atherton, Near Bolton, December 21st, 1910 written by W. G. Griggs and published by . This book was released on 1911* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester by : Terry Wyke
Download or read book Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester written by Terry Wyke and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester is a complete catalog and illustrated guide to all of Greater Manchester's public sculptures and monuments. Manchester historian Terry Wyke provides detailed individual entries for each sculpture featured, including information about the artist and the commissioning agent, date of installation, and the sculpture's historical and artistic significance. More than 350 black-and-white photographs reveal the diversity and beauty of Manchester's many public monuments. The eighth volume in Liverpool University Press's highly acclaimed and prize-winning Public Sculpture of Britain series, Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester will be an incomparable resource for both armchair and actual travelers, as well as for English historians and art scholars alike. "These are excellent volumes in an outstanding and continuing series, one of the most original and important such projects under way. They set an international standard for the recording and publication of public sculpture."—Judging panel, 2003 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, on the Public Sculpture of Britain series
Book Synopsis Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors by : Brian Elliott
Download or read book Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors written by Brian Elliott and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families and communities, and its legacy is still with us today _ many of us have a coalmining ancestor. ??Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing. That is why Brian Elliott's concise, authoritative and practical handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of coalminers in the past. ??His overview of the coalmining history _ and the case studies and research tips he provides _ will make his book rewarding reading for anyone looking for a general introduction to this major aspect of Britain's industrial heritage. His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary on them will make this guide an essential tool for family historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coalmining underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community.??As featured in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine and the Barnsley Chronicle.
Book Synopsis Family Mourning After War and Disaster in Twentieth-Century Britain by : Ann-Marie Foster
Download or read book Family Mourning After War and Disaster in Twentieth-Century Britain written by Ann-Marie Foster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the twentieth century, the families of people who died in war and disaster were left to make sense of their sudden loss and navigate newfound grief. This book focuses the families of people who died in the First World War and in mining disasters in the early twentieth-century. These bereaved families were often denied access to bodies and choice over burial rights, all while dealing with the increased bureaucracy of death.Families created domestic memorials, which took on additional meaning because of this lack of memorial agency elsewhere. Although the ways that these families were bereaved each took place in different circumstances, the ways that families grieved were recognizable to one another: they drew on common memorial practices, augmented to take on special meaning after sudden death.This memorial material provided a vehicle for families to navigate their loss, but also to communicate the memory of the dead both externally, through donation to museums, and linearly, through ancestral lines. Drawing on a nuanced reading of a wide range of sources - from ephemera to administrative museum paperwork - this book explores family reactions to mass death events in early twentieth-century Britain. The result is a comparative and domestic perspective on mourning at the turn of the century that makes important contributions to the growing field of death studies, and will be of interest to those working on the First World War, interwar Britain, the history of work, the social history of the family, and the history of memorialization. 6 b&w illustrations
Download or read book Writing Audio Drama written by Tim Crook and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Audio Drama is a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online production. The book uses new and original research on the history of writing radio plays in the UK and USA to explore how this has informed and developed the art form for more than 100 years. Audio drama in the context of podcasting is now experiencing a global and exponential expansion. Through analysis of examples of past and present writing, the author explains how to originate and craft drama which can explore deeply psychological and intimate themes and achieve emotional, truthful, entertaining, and thought-provoking impact. Practical analysis of the key factors required to write successful audio drama is covered in chapters focusing on audio play beginnings and openings, sound story dialogue, sustaining the sound story, plotting for sound drama and the best ways of ending audio plays. Each chapter is supported by extensive companion online resources expanding and supporting the writers and subjects discussed and explored, and extensive information on how to access online many exemplar and model sound dramas referenced in the chapters. This textbook will be an important resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules and courses on radio drama, theatre and media drama, audio theatre, audio drama, scriptwriting, media writing.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Energy by : Cutler J. Cleveland
Download or read book Handbook of Energy written by Cutler J. Cleveland and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Energy, Volume II: Chronologies, Top Ten Lists, and Word Clouds draws together a comprehensive account of the energy field from the prestigious and award-winning authors of the Encyclopedia of Energy (2004), The Dictionary of Energy, Expanded Edition (2009), and the Handbook of Energy, Volume I (2013).Handbook of Energy, Volume II takes the wealth of information about historical aspects of energy spread across many books, journals, websites, disciplines, ideologies, and user communities and synthesizes the information in one central repository. This book meets the needs of a diverse readership working in energy, and serves as a vital method of communication among communities including colleges and universities, nongovernmental organizations, government agencies, consulting firms and research institutes of energy, environmental, and public policy issues. - Interdisciplinary coverage appropriate for scientists in environmental sciences, social and natural sciences, and engineering - Top Ten lists, written by prominent subject experts, provide personal reflections on key issues - Chronologies covering 40 different subject areas provide all the significant events in a given field from the geologic past to the present day
Book Synopsis Foundries and Rolling Mills by : David Hall
Download or read book Foundries and Rolling Mills written by David Hall and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join engineer, steeplejack and beloved storyteller Fred Dibnah, as he takes you on a personal tour through industrial Britain. Bringing to life landmark events from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century in his typically engaging and anecdotal style, Fred introduces the great inventors from the age of steam, describes the day-to-day operation of railways, mills, forges and factories, and paints a vivid picture of what life was like for the mill-hands, colliers and engineers who laboured in industrial Britain - the workshop of the world. With a comprehensive gazetteer, which lists details of over 230 places of industrial interest - from steam railways and ships, to windmills and watermills - Foundries and Rolling Mills is a glorious portrait of Britain at the height of its industrial power, from one of our most revered figures.
Book Synopsis Children Sent into Danger by : David Tetlow
Download or read book Children Sent into Danger written by David Tetlow and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1910, this story follows two brothers, Michael, a baby, and Ronald, a seven-year-old, who suddenly lose both parents. Their mother dies in childbirth, and their father perishes in the worst coal mining disaster in Lancashire’s history: the Pretoria Pit explosion at Hulton Colliery near Westhoughton, Bolton, which claimed 344 lives. Taken to a local orphanage, the baby is fostered by a local mill owner and his wife. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, the mill owner’s intentions are far from benevolent; he wants a compliant son to fulfill his wishes. Meanwhile, the traumatized and unruly Ronald is deemed too difficult to adopt and is sent to Australia under Britain’s Child Migrant Program, where he initially suffers much abuse. Despite their harsh beginnings, both brothers eventually join the medical profession. During World War II, they encounter each other several times while working in field hospitals, completely unaware of their true relationship. Is it possible that they will one day discover the bonds of brotherhood and reunite?
Book Synopsis In Loving Memory of the Men and Boys who Lost Their Lives in the Pretoria Pit Explosion. Atherton, on December 21st, 1910 by :
Download or read book In Loving Memory of the Men and Boys who Lost Their Lives in the Pretoria Pit Explosion. Atherton, on December 21st, 1910 written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A-Z of Bolton written by Dave Burnham and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the history of Bolton highlighting its people, places and events across the centuries.
Book Synopsis North West Labour History Journal by :
Download or read book North West Labour History Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coal Mining in Lancashire & Cheshire by : Alan Davies
Download or read book Coal Mining in Lancashire & Cheshire written by Alan Davies and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Lancashire's mining industry, including a wonderful collection of rare images.
