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Scope and Contents The collection consists of documents relating to the Great Strike of 1984-1985, collected by Andre and Phyllis Bradley. It includes newspaper cuttings, posters, pamphlets, photographs and correspondence, as well as working papers from specific mines, minutes, leaflets and conference reports. The majority of the documnets date from the 1970s to the 1990s but there are some older documents from the nineteenth century. For further details of this collection please see the finding...

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A collection of journals and leaflets mostly published by the Economic League between 1961 and 1963.

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Scope and Contents Documents relating to the work of Dave Feickert, former National Union of Mineworkers research officer 1983-1993.The collection consists of documents and working papers covering the period of the Great Strike (1984-85) and the subsequent privatisation and decline of the coal industry. It includes correspondence, newspaper and journal articles, and material published during the strike period. It also includes documents relating to clean coal technology, health and safety issues and...

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Documents collected by David Gamblin, a PhD student at Sheffield University, whilst conducting research for his unfinished PhD thesis ‘Yorkshire and the American Civil War’, during the years 1996 to 1999.

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Scope and Contents Over 100 reports, both published and unpublished, relating to the UK coal industry during the years of the Great Strike and also the pit closures that followed it.The collection consists of over 100 reports, both published and unpublished, relating to the UK coal industry during the years of the Great Strike (1984/1985) and the programme of pit closures which followed it.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....

Scope and Contents The papers and correspondence of William Albert Samuel Hewins (1865-1931), economist, historian and politician, and first director of the London School of Economics.The documents include official government papers, notes, lecture notes and diaries, together with an extensive and important correspondence involving leading politicians and dignitaries of the day.The collection also includes the unlisted papers of his son, M.G. Hewins.For further details of...

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A collection of original sketches of the Sheffield cutlery trade by Arthur Lismer (1885 - 1969), for illustration of Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd’s book The Cutlery Trades: An Historical in the Economics of Small-scale Production (London: Longmans, Green and Co.,1913). Also included are three photographs of cutlery workers, likely taken by Lloyd and used by Lismer as reference for his sketches.

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Documents both published and unpublished relating to the Coal and other energy industries (mainly 1970s to early 1990s) formerly in the Library of the Research Department of the National Union of Mineworkers, Sheffield.

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

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The collection consists of a complete set of printed minutes of the National Union of Mineworkers distributed to over 100 collieries in operation in the Yorkshire region between 1925 and 1992.