British coal industry

Further reading

• Arnold, Jörg. The British Miner in the Age of De-industrialization: A Political and Cultural History (Oxford University Press, 2023).
• Ashton, T. S. & Sykes, J. The coal industry of the eighteenth century. (1929). online
• Barnett, Correlli. The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation (1986) (published as The Pride and the Fall: The Dream and Illusion of Britain as a Great Nation, (1986) in the USA); pp. 63–106; emphasizes the backwardness of the coal industry before 1945. online
• Baylies, Carolyn. The History of the Yorkshire Miners, 1881-1918 (Routledge, 1993).
• Benson, John. "Coalmining" in Chris Wrigley, ed. A History of British industrial relations, 1875-1914 (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1982), pp 187–208.
• Benson, John. British Coal-Miners in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History (Holmes & Meier, 1980) online
• Brady, Robert A. (1950). Crisis in Britain. Plans and Achievements of the Labour Government. University of California Press. pp. 77–131.
• Buxton, N.K. The economic development of the British coal industry: from Industrial Revolution to the present day. 1979.
• Dintenfass, Michael. "Entrepreneurial failure reconsidered: the case of the interwar British coal industry." Business History Review 62#1 (1988): 1-34. in JSTOR
• Dron, Robert W. The economics of coal mining (1928).
• Ediger, Volkan Ş., and John V. Bowlus. "A farewell to King Coal: geopolitics, energy security, and the transition to oil, 1898–1917." Historical Journal 62.2 (2019): 427-449. online
• Fine, B. The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (1990).
• Galloway, R.L. (1971). Annals of coal mining and the coal trade. First series [to 1835] 1898; Second series. [1835-80] 1904. Reprinted 1971
• Galloway, Robert L. A History of Coal Mining in Great Britain (1882) Online at Open Library
• Griffin, A. R. The British coalmining industry: retrospect and prospect. 1977.
• Handy, L. J. Wages Policy in the British Coal Mining Industry: A Study of National Wage Bargaining (1981) excerpt
• Hatcher, John, et al. The History of the British Coal Industry (5 vol, Oxford U.P., 1984–87); 3000 pages of scholarly history
  • John Hatcher: The History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 1: Before 1700: Towards the Age of Coal (1993). online
  • Michael W. Flinn, and David Stoker. History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 2. 1700-1830: The Industrial Revolution (1984).
  • Roy Church, Alan Hall and John Kanefsky. History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 3: Victorian Pre-Eminence
  • Barry Supple. The History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 4: 1913-1946: The Political Economy of Decline (1988) excerpt and text search
  • William Ashworth and Mark Pegg. History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 5: 1946-1982: The Nationalized Industry (1986) online