List of books about coal mining
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Non-fiction
This is a list of non-fiction books related to coal mining:
- Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future (2006)Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines (2000)
- Coal River (book) (2008)
- Miners’ Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining (2007)
- Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice From Big Coal (2007)
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937)
David John Douglass
- Pit Life in County Durham, History Workshop, 1972
- Pit Talk in County Durham, History Workshop, 1973
- A Miner's Life (with Joel Krieger), Law Book Co Australasia, 1983
- Tell Us Lies About The Miners, DAM, 1985
- Come And Wet This Truncheon, DAM/Canary Press, 1986
- A Year Of Our Lives, Hooligan Press, 1986
- Pit Sense versus the State: a history of militant miners in the Doncaster area, Phoenix Press, year unknown ISBN 0-948984-26-0
- All Power to the Imagination!, Class War Federation, 1999 ISBN 0-9537347-0-6
- Strike, Not the End of the Story: Reflections on the Major Coal Mining Strikes in Britain, National Coal Mining Museum for England Publications 4, Overton, 2005, ISBN 187292509X
- Geordies — Wa Mental, Christie Books, 2008 ISBN 978-1-873976-34-0
- The Wheel's Still in Spin, Christie Books, 2009 ISBN 978-1-873976-36-4
- Ghost Dancers, Christie Books, 2010 ISBN 978-1-873976-40-1
A booklist:
- North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Nicholas Wood Memorial Library. History of mining in the UK: some useful books. 2014
Fiction
- Tilly Trotter by Catherine Cookson (1980) and other books by this author
- King Coal (book) (1917)
