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Industry & manufacturing by Professor J V Beckett

The nature and location of resources

Raleigh factory, 1920.
Raleigh factory, 1920.

4. Archival/written

(a)  Official 

Official enquiries into mining accidents and major disasters provide a wealth of detail about working practices: Public Record Office, COAL  26, 29, 61, 62, 74-8.

(b)  Personal

Notts Living History Archive project publications (Nottinghamshire Archives and Nottinghamshire Local Studies Library) for extensive reminiscences about industrial work in the 20th century.

(c)   Administrative/business/economic

Business Records archives for local firms:

Raleigh (Nottinghamshire Archives: reference RN). See:

  • N. Clark, 'Making Tracks: The Raleigh Archive', Nottinghamshire Historian, no. 56 (1996), 8-10l.
  • Nottinghamshire County Council. Leisure Services.  Raleigh Cycle Company Archives (Nottinghamshire Archives & Local Studies Information, 1994).

Textile firms: Nottinghamshire Archives and Nottingham University Manuscripts Department

Players Cigarettes: Nottinghamshire Archives and Nottingham University Manuscripts Department

Coal Board records: PRO COAL, 26, 29, 61, 62, 74-8, and some in Nottinghamshire Archives.

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