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****New
October 2009****
Voices
from the Dressing Floors by
Lynne Mayers,
published by Blaize Bailey Books. 124 pages, 153mm x 229mm
paperback. 24 illustrations. First hand stories from the
Cornish mines and quarries. 1773-1950.
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****New
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BAL
MAIDENS by
Lynne Mayers.
Second & Enlarged edition of the book which won the
2004 Holyer An Gof award, now published by Blaize Bailey
Books. 300 pages, 189mm x 246mm Crown Quarto paperback.
81 illustrations, Mine Index, Bal Maidens Index.
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A
Dangerous Place to Work! by Lynne Mayers - 103
page 153mm
x 229mm paperback.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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****New****
May 2009
Methods
of Tin and Copper Dressing in Cornwall,
by James Henderson 1858, transcribed by Lynne
Mayers 2006. 30 page 189mm
x 246mm Crown Quarto saddle-stitched
paperback booklet transcribed from the Proceedings of the
Institution of Civil Engineers, 1858, with all the original
Henderson drawings computer enhanced. New and improved
Second Edition
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Other
articles and presentations by Lynne Mayers include: |
Bal
Maidens & Bal Boys in St Agnes |
Article
in the Journal of the St Agnes Museum Trust No 17 June 2010 |
Bal
Maidens |
Paper
presented to the Bristol Cornish Association at Bristol,
13th March 2010 |
Women
and Children of the Cornish Mining Industries |
Paper
presented to the Balwest History Society at Balwest, 29th
October 2009 |
The
Bal Maidens of Cornwall |
Paper
presented London Cornish Association, October 2008 |
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
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Bal
Maidens – The Women and Girls of the Cornish Mines
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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 |
Bal
Maidens of the Tamar Valley |
Tamar
History, No. 19, Spring 2000, pp. 3-5 |
