Scope and Contents Essays, poetry and short stories written by mineworkers for the Arthur Markham Memorial Prize administered by the University of Sheffield, submitted during the period 1932 - 1993. Contains essays that won the prize and those that were unsuccessful. Essays give insight into working in and for the mines and the home life of miners and their families. This archive contains essays for nearly all the years the prize was awarded. The 70 essays in this collection make up a small number...

Scope and Contents Documents relating to the work of Dave Feickert, former National Union of Mineworkers research officer 1983-1993.The collection consists of documents and working papers covering the period of the Great Strike (1984-85) and the subsequent privatisation and decline of the coal industry. It includes correspondence, newspaper and journal articles, and material published during the strike period. It also includes documents relating to clean coal technology, health and safety issues and...

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The collection comprises the papers, including many press cuttings, of Joseph Madin, Sheffield trades-unionist and Labour Party activist, and co-founder of the Sheffield Labour College, circa 1913 to 1959. The collection also includes his personal library of books and pamphlets. Other ephemera such as election pamphlets are included.

For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.

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Documents both published and unpublished relating to the Coal and other energy industries (mainly 1970s to early 1990s) formerly in the Library of the Research Department of the National Union of Mineworkers, Sheffield.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.

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The collection consists of a complete set of printed minutes of the National Union of Mineworkers, Yorkshire Area, distributed to over 100 collieries in operation in the Yorkshire region between 1925 and 1992. Some years contain multiple copies.

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'Scab' by Brynley Howard Gadd won an Award in 1986. The story is set in a striking Welsh mining village. The mine owner persuades a well-respected miner to return to work and prove the new equipment, that the miners are striking over, will help to increase coal production and bring prosperity to the village. It was selected by Mike Kirkup for the 1994 anthology. Attached is a signed copyright permission slip and competition entry form.

Scope and Contents The Blunkett Archives is an extensive collection which has been amassed by Lord Blunkett throughout his career, and records his journey from one of the poorest areas of Sheffield to the highest level of British politics. The collection dates from the 1940s to the present day and includes political correspondence, policy papers, material relating to his constituency work, press cuttings, speeches, diaries, school reports, personal correspondence, book proofs, sound recordings and photographs....