A new "time tunnel" exhibition which tells the history of British coal mining has opened in West ... characters to take visitors from the early 19th Century through to the near-present.

Modern industry started in the 18th century, and its growth accelerated throughout the 19th as production switched from metal to coal mining. By the early 20th century, about one in four Welsh ...

“Jewellery from coal is first and foremost a symbol of mining hardships,” Depa tells ... the first coal beads appeared in Upper Silesia in the 19th century, and were made by miners for their ...

The Welsh coal industry, with its hundreds of thousands of workers from the 19th century onwards, was ripe for the formation of unions. However, it was comparatively slow to adopt this form of job ...