I beg to differ with Richard's inference that "the historical inaccuracies
may not be noticed or may not be important" to a beginner. If I
visited Hadrian's Wall, I would not want to be told the it was built by
Vikings in the 17th century.
My main worry is, however, that someone feels entitled to lift great
chunks of copyrighted text and put it on the web - effectively passing
it off as their own work. If you sit with Arthur's 2nd volume and
compare the notes on the mineral lords etc you will see that, along
with the map references, they were lifted straight from it.
For those of us who spend their time researching and writing on
mining history (or any other topic for that matter) this is a development
which should be resisted.
Mike Gill
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Mike Gill
President and Recorder of the NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY
Britain's foremost mining history society at:-
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~RBurt/MinHistNet/NMRS.html
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