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From: Dave Linton <dave.l
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From: Dave Linton <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, 28 March, 2009 13:36:03
Subject: Publishing (was Callington Mines)
On 28 Mar 2009, at 13:18, Curator wrote:
> ... Apart from the Northern Mines Research Society, does any other group represented on the list publish? We should all be aware of each other.
The Welsh Mines Society does ...
The WMS Newsletter (of which I am the Editor), as well as being a newsletter for the society with details of WMS events and contributed news items about the Welsh extractive industries, usually contains number of mining history articles based on field or documentary research. We publish two issues per year (Spring and Autumn) which are distributed to members. Back numbers are available on-line, see our web-site http://www.welshmines.org .
In addition, WMS have just published _The Lode of History_. This is the proceedings of our 2007 conference of the same same name and contains papers on a number topics concerning Welsh (and other) mining history. This publication is the first in a projected series entitled Welsh Mines and Mining and a subsequent issue is already being planned.
Dave
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Many of the groups do publish newsletters, but it is always very difficult to get people to contribute, as I am aware as a former editor. Many of these newsletters/journals will contain a wide range of articles from well researched acadeic papers to trip reports, and hopefully the humorous, all equally valid.
I have always pushed for groups to follow the example of the caving world & exchange publications with similar bodies as widely as possible. This of course requires groups to maintain some sort of library, & have somebody to take on the task of keeping up the exchanges, which can be quite onerous. Roger Burt did a good attempt at trying to get this going through a body representing mining groups in the south west quite a few years ago, but this fell apart due to lack of volunteers to follow on what was started ( a sort of regional NAMHO).
PCG as a small group, with a fairly intermittent newsletter/journal, exchange with quite a few other mining and caving groups, so we actually need more copies for exchanges than we do for our own members!
Regarding Peter Claughton's note referring to consultation, should this go to all BCA member groups, not just NAMHO members? There are a great many caving groups doing a great deal of mining & producing good articles, not just about underground mine exploration, but going to surface archaeology, historical resaerch etc etc. In places like Mendip probably the vast majority of this is being done by groups who are BCA but not NAMHO member groups.
Alasdair Neill.
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