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- The Miners of Cornwall
(Leisure Hour, 1860)
- Under the Crust: The Lancashire Operative
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1882)
- Under the Crust: The Tyneside Collier, by Thomas Burt
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1882)
- An Underground Excursion, by Ruth Lamb
(Girl's Own Paper, 1883)
- A visit to a coal pit.
- Amongst Lead Miners
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1886)
- Tyneside Folk
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1887)
- Down a Coal Mine, by Lady Lennox
(Girl's Own Paper, 1893)
- People Who Face Death: Miners, by A.E. Bonser
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1895)
- Workers and Their Work: The Black Country of Scotland, by John Foster Fraser
(Windsor Magazine, 1896A)
- "I went into Lanarkshire, the country of coal mines and iron works. It is the Black Country of Scotland, where the air is sulphur-laden and the hills can only be seen in the far distance through a smoky haze. There is nothing to indicate one is across the romantic border except the poetical drone of the natives and the solid-built graystone cottages."
- Life in a Coal Mine, by John Foster Fraser
(Windsor, 1897A)
- The Pitman: The Romance of His Toil, by John Pendleton
(English Illustrated Magazine, 1899A)
- A bit of history of the life of the coal miner, including recent legislation to improve his lot.
- • See also Business: Mining
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