NATIONAL COAL MINING MUSEUM
for England
Unique Group Visits 2013/14
Talks & Tours The Museum has a knowledgeable team of experts including curators, conservators, librarians, guides and living history interpreters who can provide entertaining talks and tours across a wide variety of subjects. We’ve provided some suggestions here and you are welcome to discuss these, or any other ideas or requests that you have, with our booking officer on 01924 848806 or by emailing bookings@ncm.org.uk
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Talks One of these talks can be included in your visit to the Museum or, if you’re within a 30-mile radius of the Museum, your chosen speaker can come to speak to your group at a venue off-site. The charge for off-site talks is £40 (£60 for bookings for Dr Margaret Faull) Talks last up to one hour, but can be tailored to suit your group or the time you have available – either choose from the following, or if you have a specific interest that is not covered here, call or email our booking officer on 01924 848806 or bookings@ncm.org.uk to discuss your requirements.
Coal Queens Coal Queen Competitions started as small local colliery contests, but developed into a national event. Between 1969 and 1983 the National Coal Board ran the Coal Queen of Britain competition, sponsored by Coal News, where regional winners competed for the national title. Winners of the national competition received a range of prizes from holidays to clothes and money and also went on to represent the National Coal Board at a variety of events during their reign. This talk looks at how Coal Queens are remembered at the Museum and delves into the history of this little known competition. © Unknown
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The Use of Oral History at the National Coal Mining Museum for England
A Weathered Past: the legacy of outside storage
Mining Disasters – Rescue and Recovery
This talk looks at the oral history collection, how and why it is collected, and how the Museum uses this resource.
A talk on the issues relating to the outside storage of large industrial collections, focusing on the solutions and treasures found working on the compound project.
This talk is based on the Museum’s 2006 special exhibition and discusses five key disasters and the effect they had on the community and industry.
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From Coal to Canvas
The Legacy of the Lens
Taking you behind the scenes of the Museum’s extensive art collection which includes pictures, paintings and photography.
Capturing the changing face of the coal industry through photography.
Image shown: Untitled woodcut George Bissill
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Image shown: ‘Pit Ponies with their handlers at Waldridge Colliery’
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A Unique Little Enterprise – a working history of Caphouse Colliery How Caphouse Colliery came to be and how it worked, using archive material and a little detective work .
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‘Equal to Half a Man’ – women in coal mining and coal mining communities
Tracing your Coal Mining Ancestors OR Resources for Local and Family History at NCMME
Librarianship in Special Libraries in the Twenty-First Century
A brief look at working women in the coalfields, both before and after the 1842 Act, and their later roles in mining communities, using images from the collections.
An introduction to sources of information held at NCMME for those interested in their coal- mining connections.
An introduction to the Museum’s library including a look at what we do; how it differs from other (library) sectors, training, skills and qualification requirements.
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Coal Mining in Yorkshire
Setting up the National Coal Mining Museum for England
‘Coal Mines and the Landscape’
The National Coal Mining Museum for England is a successful and vibrant museum of English coal mining and its communities, but in attaining this position it has gone through many vicissitudes since it was first conceived in 1983. This deals with various aspects of the Museum: the background to the establishment of the Museum; the development of the site; cultural and training activities; and funding challenges that the Museum has had to confront.
The Museum is set in a landscape with many traces of coal mining from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, reflecting the evidence that remains throughout the country of coal mining for those who know where to look. These include remains of the mines themselves (their sites, headgears, and spoil heaps); the methods of moving coal (canals, railways and roads); and the mining communities.
A brief look at some of Yorkshire’s coal mining industry, using images from the Museum’s collections.
Tours
Surface Tours As an alternative to our Underground Tours, we can also offer lively, entertaining tours on the surface – of the galleries and historic buildings – led either by one of our miner-guides or by an appropriate curator or living history interpreter. Tours can be tailored to the interests or age of your group members, as well as to the amount of time you have available - but MUST be pre-booked. Please take a look at our ‘Plan your visit’ guide for information about the galleries and buildings or visit www.ncm.org.uk/groups then call our booking officer on 01924 848806 to discuss your requirements, or email bookings@ncm.org.uk
Registered in England & Wales as a Limited Company by Guarantee No. 1702426. Reg. Charity No. 517325.VAT Reg. No. 457 548 314. Reg. Office: Caphouse Colliery, New Road, Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 4RH
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum Would you like to find out more about the work that our curators and conservators do to look after our collections? Or maybe you would like a tour of the Museum’s stores buildings (where we keep the many thousands of items that cannot be on permanent display) or our specialist library (which is home to more than 20,000 books, journals and historic information files). Just let us know and we can arrange it for you. All such visits and tours MUST be pre-booked – please call our booking officer on 01924 848806 to discuss your interests and requirements, or email bookings@ncm.org.uk