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Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan was raised in Forres and studied at the universities of Aberdeen and Warwick. He is author of several publications on labour and social history and is currently a Workplace Learning Verifier with the Workers Educational Association in Scotland.

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Mineworkers, The

Mineworkers, The


ISBN: 9781841583655
Category: Industry, Social History
Author: Robert Duncan
Publication Date: November 2005
Format: Paperback
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

The first substantial social history of mineworkers in Scotland to encompass the entire span of commercial mining, from its origins in the Middle Ages to the extinction of deep coal mining.


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Sons of Vulcan

Sons of Vulcan


ISBN: 9781841587691
Category: Industry, Social History
Author: Robert Duncan
Publication Date: June 2009
Format: Paperback
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:
Presents Scotland's industrial history and the people who helped to shape it. This book focuses on the men and boys who mastered heat and fire to make and shape iron in furnaces, forges, mills and foundries before, during, and after the industrial revolution.
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