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Coal mining

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 308 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), [Jul 1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/41/20
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Notes [by Crompton Llewelyn Davies] showing that wages of the entire stoke-hole crew of the "Lusitania" for two Atlantic crossings amount to less than the royalties received by the landowner for the coal consumed on the voyages.

Dates: [Jul 1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Jul 1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/41/21-24
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Notes [by Crompton Llewelyn Davies] on evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Mining Royalties of 1893 showing that royalties led to the depression of wages and the closing of collieries.

Dates: [Jul 1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/41/43-44
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Memorandum on the royalties paid on coal and iron ore in Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire. Typescript.

Dates: [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1910]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/42/39-44
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Notes on the reduction of tea duty and sugar duty and the miners' eight hour day as much surer means of improving the condition of workers than a protective duty.

Dates: [1910]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Oct 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/33/6-7
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Letter from Ernest Beckett, later Lord Grimthorpe to WSC, on Lancashire collieries.

Dates: 27 Oct 1902
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Sep 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/179/44
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Letter from CSC to WSC, commenting on the coal dispute.

Dates: 09 Sep 1926
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Sep [1926]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/179/45-47
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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the coal dispute, also on WSC's meeting with Lord Beaverbrook and Beaverbrook's relationship with Jean Norton Part pub. CV V, Part 1, pp.823-824.

Dates: 10 Sep [1926]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Sep 1926]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/179/49
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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the coal dispute, passing on the views of Lord Ancaster, who felt that "mediation was a mistake".

Dates: [Sep 1926]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 05 Jun 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/255/9-11
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Letter from Henry Woodall, Chairman, Tottenham and District Gas Council on the Coal Mines Bill and the proposed coal sales monopoly.

Dates: 05 Jun 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Jul 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/256/24-27
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Letter from Lt-Col Norman Thwaites, British Smokeless & Oil Fuels Ltd to WSC, on the production of smokeless fuel and fuel oils by the low temperature carbinisation process.

Dates: 08 Jul 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Jul 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/256/28
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Letter from WSC to Lt-Col Norman Thwaites, thanks for letter on the production of smokeless fuel and fuel oil by low temperature carbonisation of coal [carbon].

Dates: 09 Jul 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 May 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/42-43
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Resolution passed by the Executive Committee of the Federation of British Industries on The Coal Mines Bill: Compulsory Amalgamations.

Dates: 14 May 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Dec 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/30/4
Scope and Contents Newsprint issue of the Miners' Campaign Special (number 5), by the Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain. It details the Government's responsibility to the miners, particularly following the failure to modernise, wasteful competition through the use of coal selling agencies, the disastrous results of the 1930 Coal Mines Act and reiterates the need for the Government to increase miners' wages. It also quotes from a speech by George Peake, Chairman of the Airedale Collieries Limited,...
Dates: Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 6 Aug 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/72A/41-60
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Speech notes for WSC's statement on the coal subsidy, the crisis in the coal industry, the alternative risk of a strike, and hopes of a settlement.Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style", annotated by WSC, and manuscript notes [?in the hand of Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to WSC].

Dates: 6 Aug 1925
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Mar 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/2/20
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Letter from Lord Knollys [Private Secretary to King George V] (Buckingham Palace) to WSC congratulating him on behalf of the King for the carrying of the second reading of the Coal Mines Bill, which the King hopes will be passed in the present parliamentary session. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 18 Mar 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/1
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Letter from Sydney Buxton [President of the Board of Trade] to WSC enclosing a letter to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] concerning proceedings in South Wales [see CHAR 12/6/2-3]. He warns that to settle the dispute between mine owners and miners it may be necessary to alter the Eight Hours Act to accommodate a half day holiday for miners on Saturdays. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 26 Mar 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [Mar] [1910]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/2-3
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from Sydney Buxton [President of the Board of Trade] to Herbert Asquith detailing the progress of a dispute between mine owners and miners in South Wales which may develop into a "very serious and far-reaching strike". He reports that the representatives of the Board of Trade, [George] Askwith and [I H ] Mitchell, found that negotiations between the two sides had broken off, and therefore arranged a meeting between Buxton and two representatives of the mine owners. Buxton...
Dates: [Mar] [1910]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 09 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/28
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Letter from Sir Arthur Bigge [later Lord Stamfordham, Permanent Secretary to King George V] (York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk) to WSC expressing concern on behalf of the King at reports of riots in South Wales and requesting a report of events from WSC. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 09 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 10 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/29
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Letter from Alexander Murray [Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury] to WSC marked "confidentially dictated" enclosing newspaper cuttings [concerning the miners' strike at Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Wales] and commenting "the principal Liberal papers...are backing you" Signed typescript. See CHAR 12/6/30 and CHAR 12/6/31.

Dates: 10 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 09 Nov 1910 - 10 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/30
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Newspaper cuttings relating to WSC's decision to send re-enforcements of police to the riots and miners' strike at Tonypandy [Glamorgan, Wales] instead of the military force requested by the Chief Constable. Cuttings from: the Daily News, the Daily Chronicle, the Morning Leader and the Manchester Guardian. Covering letter at CHAR 12/6/29.

Dates: 09 Nov 1910 - 10 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 10 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/31
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Transcript of a newspaper article from the Liverpool Daily Post relating to WSC's decision to send re-enforcements of police to the riots and miners' strike at Tonypandy [Glamorgan, Wales] instead of the military force requested by the Chief Constable. Typescript. Covering letter at CHAR 12/6/29.

Dates: 10 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 10 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/32
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Telegram from King George V (Sandringham) to WSC thanking him for his report of the riots [at Tonypandy, Glamorgan] Wales and hoping that the news that horses have been lost in the mines is not true. Manuscript.

Dates: 10 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 10 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/33
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Letter from Thomas Rees, editor of the Cambria Daily Leader (Leader Buildings, 151 Fleet Street [London]) to WSC congratulating him for his decision to delay the military troops sent to [the riots] at Tonypandy [Glamorgan, Wales], as "the sacrifice of life" which would have resulted could not have been rectified. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 10 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 13 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/34-35
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from [WSC] ([Home Office]) to [David Lloyd George] concerning the riots [at Tonypandy, Glamorgan] Wales expressing concern at the tension between police and rioters. Although the police are strong enough to deal with the situation, they cannot remain there indefinitely, and contact between the rioters and the military could lead to "consequences of utmost gravity". [WSC] appeals to [David Lloyd George] for assistance because of his influence in Wales and knowledge of the...
Dates: 13 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 13 Nov [1910]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/36
Scope and Contents Letter from George Askwith [Comptroller General Commercial, Labour and Statistical Departments, Board of Trade] (12 Hans Crescent [London]) to [WSC] concerning a meeting with employers connected with the "disturbed mines" [at Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Wales]. Subjects covered include: the inability of the Board of Trade to intervene until the constitutional position has been restored; a problem of blackleg labour; and the employers' request for protection for life and property. Manuscript...
Dates: 13 Nov [1910]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.