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Economics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Bradley Documents

 Fonds
Reference code: 248
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 documents 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...
Dates: 1865 - 1995

Economic League Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: PE 21
Scope and Contents

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

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

Dates: 1961 - 1963

Feickert Documents

 Fonds
Reference code: 202
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...
Dates: 1972 - 2004

Gamblin Papers

 Collection
Reference code: 303
Scope and Contents

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.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.

Dates: 1995 - 1999

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The collection consists of over 100 reports, both published and unpublished, relating to the UK coal industry during the years of the Great Strike (1984/1985) and the programme of pit closures which followed it.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: 1960 - 1995

Hewins Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 74
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...
Dates: 1849 - 1931

Lloyd and Lismer Illustrations

 Fonds
Reference code: 421
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1913

National Union of Mineworkers Energy Research Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 242
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1925 - 1993 (mainly 1973 - 1993)

National Union of Mineworkers (Yorkshire) Minutes

 Fonds
Reference code: 243
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a complete set of printed minutes of the National Union of Mineworkers, Yorkshire Area, distributed to over 100 collieries in operation in the Yorkshire region between 1925 and 1992. Some years contain multiple copies.

Dates: 1925 - 1992