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Glyn Documents

 Fonds
Reference code: 284

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of over 100 reports, both published and unpublished, relating to the UK coal industry during the years of the Great Strike (1984/1985) and the programme of pit closures which followed it. The reports are concerned with national matters and also with the viability of individual pits.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.

Dates

  • Creation: 1960 - 1995

Conditions Governing Access

Available to all researchers, by appointment.

Copyright

Variously according to document.

Biographical / Historical

Andrew Glyn was an academic economist at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His research interests focussed on the areas of unemployment and inequality, and he acted as a consultant to the International Labour Organisation and the National Union of Mineworkers, for who he wrote The Economic Case Against Pit Closures. Andrew Glyn died in December 2007.

Extent

4 Box(es)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

By category.

Custodial History

By donation in June 2002

Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Western Bank Library
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
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