Records relating to the National Union of Mineworkers and the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, and to coal mining in Nottinghamshire; 1893-2009

The collection has been divided into series as follows:

Miners' Federation of Great Britain Annual Reports (MS 924/1);

National Union of Mineworkers Annual Reports (MS 924/2);

National Union of Mineworkers Annual Conference Reports and papers (MS 924/3);

National Union of Mineworkers Nottingham Area Minutes (MS 924/4);

National Union of Mineworkers Nottingham Area Annual Conference Reports and papers (MS 924/5);

Union of Democratic Mineworkers Nottingham Section Minutes (MS 924/6);

Mine Workers' Federation of Great Britain Rules (MS 924/7);

National Union of Mineworkers Rules (MS 924/8)

National Association of Colliery Overmen Deputies and Shotfirers Midland Area Rules (MS 924/9);

Papers relating to the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme (MS 924/10);

Papers relating to the Nottinghamshire and District Miners' Pension Scheme (MS 924/11);

Papers relating to Annesley-Bentinck Colliery (MS 924/12);

Papers relating to Nottinghamshire Coalminers' (Convalescent Home) Fund and the Nottinghamshire Coalminers' (Special Treatment After Colliery Accidents) Fund (MS 924/13);

Papers relating to the Midland District Miners’ Fatal Accident Relief Society (MS 924/14);

Papers relating to wages and conciliation (MS 924/15);

Series of files relating mainly to legal matters involving the UDM and the NUM (MS 924/16);

Papers relating to electrical training and electrical equipment (MS 924/17);

Papers relating to health and safety, and to mine rescue (MS 924/18);

Papers and Minutes for the Deep Mined Coal Industry Advisory Committee (MS 924/19);

Papers relating to the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation Trust (MS 924/20);

Papers relating to the Coal Industry Benevolent Trust (MS 924/21);

Papers relating to management training (MS 924/22);

Papers relating to the NUM, UDM and the 1985-1985 miners' strike (MS 924/23);

Miscellaneous items relating to coal mining in Nottinghamshire (MS 924/24);

Files of newspaper cuttings relating mainly to the 1984-1985 miners' strike (MS 924/25);

The Nottinghamshire Miner (NUM and UDM newspaper) (MS 924/26);

The Miner (journal of NUM) (MS 924/27);

The Notts Collier (MS 924/28);

Coal News (MS 924/29);

CSS News (MS 924/30);

Midland Mining News (MS 924/31);

NUM and UDM Nottinghamshire Area pocket diaries (MS 924/32).

The Miners' Federation of Great Britain was founded in 1888 and became the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), a trade union for coal miners, in 1945.

The Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM) trade union was established in 1985, as the result of a breakaway from the NUM during the miners' strike of 1984-1985. It is based in Nottinghamshire.

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