BALMAIDENS
by Lynne Mayers. Published by Hypatia Trust. 246
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A
Dangerous Place to Work! by
Lynne Mayers - 103 page paperback. £7.95. This book
tells the story of the employment of women and children
right across the mining industries of Devon and Cornwall,
up until the second half of the 20th century. It
includes their work at the mines, clay works, slate quarries,
foundries, smelters, and gunpowder and explosives works.
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Methods
of Tin and Copper Dressing in Cornwall,
by James Henderson 1858, transcribed by Lynne Mayers 2006.
29 page A4 staple paperback booklet transcribed from the
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1858,
with all the original Henderson drawings computer enhanced.
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Children's
Employment Commission Report of 1842
Name
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Other
publications and presentations by Lynne Mayers include:
Women
of the Tamar Mining Industries
Paper
presented to the NAMHO Conference at Morwelham, June 2007
The
Bal Maidens of St Austell
Paper
presented to the China Clay History Society at Wheal Martyn,
November, 2006
The
Bal Maidens of Carn Brea
Paper
presented to the Carn Brea Mining History Society at Pool,
November, 2006
Women
in a Man’s World (Mine Managers etc.)
Cornwall
Family History Journal, No. 120, June 2006, pp. 4-5
The
Balwest Bal Maidens
Paper
presented to the Balwest History Society at Balwest, April,
2006
William
Murrish and the Bolingey Wesleyans
Journal
of the Cornish Methodist Historical Association, Vol. 10,
No. 4, 2006, pp. 160-3
The
Counthouse Women
Cornwall
Family History Journal, No. 117, September 2005, p. 5
Bal
Maidens – The Women and Girls of the Cornish Mines
Paper
presented at the Kernewek Lowender Seminar ‘Notable
Cornish Women’, at Kadina, 2005
Women
in Mining
Paper
presented to the National Association of Mining History Organisations
Regional Research Seminar, in Exeter, 2005
Mining
and Methodism – from the 1842 Royal Commission
Journal
of the Cornish Methodist Historical Association Vol. 10, No.
3, 2005, pp. 106-8
Women
and Children at the Smelters, Foundries and Assay Offices
of Cornwall
Cornwall
Family History Journal No. 114, December 2004, pp. 34-35
Discovering
Bal Maidens
Carn
Brea Mining Society Newsletter, December 2004, No. 53, pp.
10-12
Bal
Maidens in St. Ives
St.
Ives Trust Archive Study Centre News, Summer 2004, p. 9 and
Autumn 2004, p. 9
A
Dangerous Place to Work
(Women
and Children at the Explosives Works etc.) Cornwall Family
History Journal, No. 111, March 2004, pp.4-7
Cornish
Fishwives
Cornwall
Family History Journal, No. 110, December 2003, pp. 4-5
