Mining history: everything you wanted to know

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Historically, the How much would a British miner have earned for a hard day's work? What they have worn underground. And how did adding baths to the pit heads Create much needed change.

In conversation with Loring Good for today's Everything You Wanted To Know episode, Professor Robert Coles explores the history of working down British mines. and explains how despite it being brutal hard, There was also beauty to be found. We're talking all about mining history today, and I think much of our conversation might lean towards history in more recent centuries. But let's start at the very beginning with a question we've had from Instagram. How did mining in the UK actually begin?

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