Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1516 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Coal mining books belonging to Professor Jack Parker
Covering Dates: 1920-1930
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Catalogue Description
Records given:16 December 2005 Acc: 3205(D)
These documents belonged to Professor Jack Parker who began work as a miner in County Durham in the 1920s. He became a councillor for Blaydon, then won a scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford. He ended his working life as Professor of extra-mural studies at Southampton University.
Catalogue Contents
Ref: D/X 1516/1
Changes in Wages in the Durham Coal Trade, 1871 to 1924 , Durham Miners' Association, 20 April 1924
(1 volume, cloth bound, printed)
Ref: D/X 1516/2Durham Miners' Association, County and National Agreements etc., October 1920
(1 volume, cloth bound, printed)
Ref: D/X 1516/3Durham Miners' Association, Acts of Parliament, County and National Agreements, February 1930
(1 volume, cloth bound, printed)
Ref: D/X 1516/4Richard Fynes, The Miners of Northumberland and Durham, A History of their Social and Political Progress , published 1873, reprinted and published, with a foreword by W.P. Richardson, in July 1923
(1 volume, cloth bound, printed)
