KEY SOURCES

MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES Tameside Local Studies & Archives www.tameside.gov.uk/archives The archive holds a fascinating collection of oral histories, photograph albums, press cuttings and ephemera related to the Daily Dispatch newspaper Cotton Queens, with particular emphasis on the first queen Frances Lockett.

Museums and Archives Northumberland experiencewoodhorn.com/ collections Located at Woodhorn Museum, near Ashington, the archive holds collections telling the story of many of the northeast Coal Queens and their communities. The website features a searchable collections catalogue.

National Coal Mining Museum for England ncm.org.uk/ collections The museum has information about the stories of national and regional Coal Queens, as well as the history of English coal mining in general.

Bolton Archives and Local Studies boltonlams.co.uk/archives Bolton Archives holds an album presented by the Daily Dispatch newspaper to the 1936–37 Cotton Queen Doris Bower.

Burnley Library and Local Studies lancashire.gov.uk/ libraries-and-archives Burnley Library holds a souvenir photo album presented to 1932–33 Cotton Queen Marjorie Knowles.

WEBSITES National Railway Museum nrm.org.uk/ researchandarchive Search Engine, the National Railway Museum’s library and archive centre, holds a wealth of material covering the railway companies that promoted the Railway Queens. These include photograph albums and staff magazines covering the period from the early 1920s to the demise of the Railway Queens in the mid-1970s.

The British Newspaper Archive britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk Regional press coverage provided an insight into the excitement surrounding the activities of the various queens of industry, sometimes with vivid detail, that is not captured by other sources. For cotton, wool and coal, there is a northern bias in the coverage. For the railways, the coverage is geographically more evenly spread.