Women Of The Durham Coalfield In The 19th Century

Author : Margaret Hedley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750991046
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century written by Margaret Hedley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and the pits, and men who worked in the coal-mining industry during the Victorian period. There has been very little written about the importance of the home life that supported the miners - their wives who, through heroic efforts, did their best to provide attractive, healthy, happy home for their husbands, often in appalling social conditions. To provide a welcoming atmosphere at home demanded tremendous resources and commitment from the miners' wives. Despite their many hardships these women selflessly put everyone in the family before themselves. They operated on less rest, less food at times of necessity and under the huge physical burden of work and the emotional burden of worry concerning the safety of their family. Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century: Hannah's Story addresses the lack of information about the role of women in the Durham Coalfield, engagingly explored through one woman's experience.

Author : Margaret Hedley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750996455
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century written by Margaret Hedley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The women's working days were much longer than the miners, who typically worked an 8-hour shift. Their living conditions were poor and lack of investment by the coal owners greatly challenged their homemaking skills as they faced life without many basics, such as clean water and sewerage systems. Health services were slow to develop and women's health was only just beginning to be of some importance to the medical profession. Coal-miner wives in the twentieth century also had to cope with demands put upon their families by the First World War, which highlighted the importance of solidarity, a feature of mining communities that had proved itself to be at the heart of colliery village life. This follow-up book to the popular Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century continues with the story of Hannah's daughter as she negotiates homemaking in the most challenging of conditions.

Author : Norman Emery
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752450421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coalminers of Durham written by Norman Emery and published by History Press. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real story of Durham's bygone mining age

Author : Margaret Hedley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 1803994207
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield written by Margaret Hedley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'As this book shows, the women of the Durham coalfield played an equal role in shaping daily life and trajectories of history in the region, just as women today are building their own futures in communities around the world.' - Hillary Rodham Clinton The Second World War took its toll on every part of society. The appeal for women to work outside the home in the ammunition factories supporting the war effort was taken up by many women throughout the colliery villages. They worked for eight hours a day at the factory, taking up their caregiving and home-making roles when they returned home. Their days continued to be long and strenuous. After the war, the government introduced a series of initiatives intended to improve the lives of the nation. A reformed education system was implemented in 1944, nationalisation in 1947 and a national health service in 1948. At last things were looking up for coal-mining families. At the edge of this bright new horizon, little did Hannah's female descendants realise that they would come to represent the last generation of women of the Durham coalfield.

Author : Valerie G. Hall
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843838702
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women at Work, 1860-1939 written by Valerie G. Hall and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to women's history, labour history, and economic and social history. This book examines three different groups of women - in coal mining communities, in inshore fishing communities and in agricultural labour. It demonstrates how the work these groups undertook was fundamental in shaping their experiences as women in different ways and shows that women's experiences varied within class as well as between classes. The book illustrates how mining women, despite being restricted to domestic roles, created, through meticulous housekeeping, a power base in their homes and rendered their husbands dependent on them, while a minority took so active a role in politics that they were said to be 'the backbone of the Labour Party'; how fisher women, engaging ina household economy reminiscent of pre-modern times, exercised great influence on financial decision making through their roles in baiting lines and selling fish; and how some single female agricultural labourers exercised considerable autonomy whereas those who were tied in a family economy had little independence. Overall, the book makes a very significant contribution to women's history, to labour history and to economic and social history. "This is a tremendously useful and relevant book for historians of women as well as social and labor historians." - Professor Joan Scott, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University VALERIE HALL is Professor Emerita of History at William Peace University, North Carolina

Author : W Stanley Jevons
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780341876854
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coal Question written by W Stanley Jevons and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Janet MacLeod Trotter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908359070
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hungry Hills written by Janet MacLeod Trotter and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Great War still raw in the memory and life in the 1920s mining village of Whitton Grange hard and dangerous, Louie Kirkup dreams of a better future. But with a sick mother and a large family of pitman brothers and father, the daily burdens fall heavily on her young shoulders. She fears becoming a spinster drudge until she sets eyes on 'Red' Sam Ritson - hard, muscled and a natural leader - climb into the boxing ring at the Durham Miners' Gala and determines to marry him. But Sam, wedded to his battle for his fellow miners against the ruthless mine owner Seward-Scott, is no ideal husband. As tensions increase and the General Strike looms, Louie's brother Eb begins an affair with Eleanor, the mine owner's wife. With the miners locked out of work, Louie fears for the fate of her village and her unborn child. As the strain takes its tragic toll, loving and loyal Louie must stay strong for them all. Written with compassion, humour and a vivid immediacy, The Hungry Hills is an unforgettable saga of two very different families living through the dramas of 1920s Britain. The Hungry Hills was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and is the first in the Durham Mining Trilogy.

Author : Gemma Hollman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750993502
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Witches written by Gemma Hollman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle – and her husband was about to fall from grace. Jacquetta Woodville was a personal enemy of Warwick the Kingmaker, who was about to take his revenge. Elizabeth Woodville was the widowed mother of a child king, fighting Richard III for her children's lives. In Royal Witches, Gemma Hollman explores the lives of these four unique women, looking at how rumours of witchcraft brought them to their knees in a time when superstition and suspicion was rife.

Author : Michael Richardson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445691329
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Durham written by Michael Richardson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated description of Durham city’s well-known and lesser-known places that have been lost over the years.

Author : David M. Turner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526125781
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability in the Industrial Revolution written by David M. Turner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in an industry that was vital to Britain’s economic growth. Although it is commonly assumed that industrialisation led to increasing marginalisation of people with impairments from the workforce, disabled mineworkers were expected to return to work wherever possible, and new medical services developed to assist in this endeavour. This book explores the working lives of disabled miners and analyses the medical, welfare and community responses to disablement in the coalfields. It shows how disability affected industrial relations and shaped the class identity of mineworkers. The book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability, occupational health and social history.