Glyn Documents
Scope and Contents
Over 100 reports, both published and unpublished, relating to the UK coal industry during the years of the Great Strike and also the pit closures that followed it.
The collection consists of over 100 reports, both published and unpublished, relating to the UK coal industry during the years of the Great Strike (1984/1985) and the programme of pit closures which followed it. The reports are concerned with national matters and also with the viability of individual pits.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.
Dates
- Creation: 1960 - 1995
Conditions Governing Access
Available to all researchers, by appointment.
Copyright
Variously according to document.
Biographical / Historical
Andrew Glyn was an academic economist at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His research interests focussed on the areas of unemployment and inequality, and he acted as a consultant to the International Labour Organisation and the National Union of Mineworkers, for who he wrote The Economic Case Against Pit Closures. Andrew Glyn died in December 2007.
Extent
4 Box(es)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
By category.
Custodial History
By donation in June 2002
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository
Western Bank Library
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
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