David Douglass, Clean Coal

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Fundraiser for the publication of a new book by David Douglass making the case for coal mining in the UK.

David John Douglass, Coal Miner, NUM Official, Author and Historian, started his NCB Apprenticeship in 1964, a face linesman at Wardley Colliery, Pelaw near the River Tyne, worked for the next 30 years as Tunneller and ‘Caunchman’. 

Elected as NUM Delegate at Hatfield Main Colliery Doncaster in 1980 he served the branch and the Area Executive Committee of the NUM and as Vice Chair of the South Yorkshire NUM Panel, until the 2006 closure of Hatfield Main Pit and the NUM Branch. (The pit later reopened and was the second last one to close in the whole of Britain leaving 1000 years’ supply of coal still underground.)

Dave graduated from Strathclyde University, Glasgow University, Keele University and Ruskin College, Oxford where he was a research student with the Oxford History Workshop. He is the author of many books on the history of the Miners’ Union and the Mining Industry and is a regular guest speaker at schools, colleges, and Universities.

He is a Council Member and Trustee of the North East Institute Mining and Mechanical Engineers.