THE COALMINING HISTORY RESOURCE CENTRE

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This site contains a wealth of useful information including research guidance, maps, a list of mines, a glossary of mining terms, and a database of more than 164,000 recorded accidents and deaths. Before 1850 there was no systematic recording of mining deaths, so all of the pre-1850 names were collated by the site’s creator – former miner and teacher Ian Winstanley – during 10 years of research, often drawn from articles in newspapers and other periodicals. After 1850 the main source is official Mines Inspectors’ Reports, which surveyed deaths and injuries in coal, oil shale and metal mines/quarries. At time of writing, the layout was misbehaving – a drop-down menu was glitching – but the content remained accessible and valuable.