Further information
Further Reading
- Brown, John H.
- The Valley of the Shadow: An account of Britain’s worst mining disaster, the Senghennydd explosion
- Alun Books (1981), ISBN 0907117066, 171 pages
- Department of Works and Pensions, UK
- The Government’s response to proposals for the official recognition of Workers Memorial Day
- January 2010, 17 pages
- www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/workers-memorial-day-consultation-response.pdf
- Duckham, Helen and Baron
- Great Pit Disasters: Great Britain 1700 to the present day
- David & Charles (1973)
- Health and Safety Executive
- International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD)
- It is intended to remember all those killed at or by work, and to strengthen our resolve to reduce risks and protect people from injury in the workplace.
- www.hse.gov.uk/workers/iwmd.htm
- McCutcheon, E. J.
- The Hartley Colliery Disaster, 1862
- E. McCutcheon, Co. Durham, 1963, 176 pp.
- Palmer, Hilda
- “The Whole Story”
- Safety Health Practitioner, December 2008
- www.shponline.co.uk/article.asp?article_id=8265
- Phillips, J. Basil
- Senghennydd: A Brave Community
- The Old Bakehouse (2002)
- Royal Commission
- Reports on Children in Mines 1842
- Full reports: www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/literature/royalcommissionreports
- Williamson, Stanley
- Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster
- Liverpool University Press, 1999, 224 pp, Hardback: ISBN 978 0 85323 892 8, Paperback: ISBN 978 0 85323 902 4
- Winstanley, Ian (compiler)
- A list of mining disasters in Great Britain, 1700 to 1979
- www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/home
- This web site also contains information on the history of coalmining, maps showing locations of mines, literature, poems and much more.
- Winstanley, Ian
- With hearts so light. The story of the Queen Pit Explosions
- Haydock, December 1868 and July 1869. Ashton in Makerfield, Picks, 1990, 113 pages, ISBN 0951684302
Greater Manchester Hazards Centre
- Safety Reps Guide to Workers Memorial Day
- www.gmhazards.org.uk/SRep%20guide%20WMD%202010.pdf
- Background to Workers Memorial Day
- www.gmhazards.org.uk/WMD%20lft%202010.pdf
- Public leaflet WMD 2010
- www.gmhazards.org.uk/Public%20Leaflet%20%202010.pdf
- Purple “Forget Me Knot” ribbons
- www.gmhazards.org.uk/wmdribbonof.doc
- Workplaces are Safer Workplaces car stickers
- www.gmhazards.org.uk/wmdstof.doc