Coal mining was often a family affair with different ... The reliance on huge amounts of coal as a fuel during the Industrial Revolution has had a serious effect on the environment.

Politicians have called for former coalfields to be turned into green energy hubs to reverse the damage of the pit closures.

Modern industry started in the 18th century, and its growth accelerated throughout the 19th as production switched from metal to coal mining. By the early 20th century, about one in four Welsh workers ...

“This was the industrial revolution, right here ... the United Kingdom is barely mining coal today. Plans to open the country ...

This victory is part of a global movement against coal, including direct action, legal challenges and public campaigns, that have blocked new plants from the US to Europe to Africa. Meanwhile, new ...

The industrial revolution was underway and it depended ... Tutty starting working in the Glace Bay coal mines when he was 14 years old. His father had drowned and Tutty became the first in five ...

put to work last week a machine that set up the rumble of revolution in coal mining. In 60 seconds, the “Continuous Miner” of the Joy Manufacturing Co. (TIME, April 5) ripped two tons of coal ...

As the clock struck midnight on Monday, UK time, the birthplace of the industrial revolution marked ... diminished the importance of coal when she shut mines to crush the power of mining unions ...