Coal was central to the war effort. It not only kept people warm but powered industry, railways and shipping. After the loss of French and Belgian coalfields to the Allied war effort, Welsh coal was ...

As a labor lawyer and community advocate in Southern West Virginia, I was inspired recently by visiting the coalfields in the ...

The Big Pit museum is a 140-year-old former coal mine in Blaenavon, in south Wales and part of Museum Wales, a government-backed body which is bound to follow a Labour directive to set “the ...

This meant that the war saw some form of prosperity return to the south Wales coalfield after the long, hard inter-war years. One in ten eighteen-year-olds were drafted into mines rather than the ...

This meant that the war saw some form of prosperity return to the south Wales coalfield after the long, hard inter-war years. One in ten eighteen-year-olds were drafted into mines rather than the ...