Mining history: everything you wanted to know
Professor Robert Colls explores the history of mining in Britain, from its Roman beginnings to the miners' strike of the 1980s
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Show Notes
Historically, how much would a British miner have earned for a hard day's work? Did women and children also work underground? And why were canaries taken down the pits? In conversation with Lauren Good, Professor Robert Colls explores the history of mining in Britain – and explains that, despite the work being 'brutal hard', there was also beauty to be found in mining communities.
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