Resources: Metals and Mining
Files are Microsoft Word documents unless noted otherwise.
- Dr. Richard Pococke on tin-mining in Cornwall, 1750
- Mrs. Abiah Darby on developments in the Darby ironworks at Coalbrookdale, 1708-1763
- A Description of Birmingham and its Industry from the Diary of Lady Shelburne, 1766
- Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond's impressions of Birmingham, 1784
- Edward Baines on the Development of the Steam Engine by Watt and Boulton, 1835
- Arthur Young on the industrial development of Birmingham, 1791
- Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond on the Newcastle coal-mines, 1784
- Evidence of J. Buddle before the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the state of the coal trade, 1829
- Mining Commissioner Seymour Tremenheere's account of the miners and iron workers of Bedwelty and Merthyr Tydvil in 1839
- Dr. John Allen on the mining population in Northumberland and Durham in 1840
- Report of the Commission on the Labour of Women and Children in Mines, 1842