List of collections in Subdivision Social History

Collection Titlesort iconInstitutionDescription
Committee of Coal Owner Members of the Conciliation BoardGlasgow University Archive ServicesRecords of the Committee of Coal Owner Members of the Conciliation Board. This collection consists of the minutes of this employers' association, including minutes of some regional meetings.
CostumeNational Mining Museum ScotlandThe museum’s costume collection holds the typical mining costume of orange overalls, donkey jackets, boots, white helmets and belts that came to form a miner’s uniform during the period of the Nat
CostumeEast Lothian Council Museums ServiceThe Museums Service holds a small collection of costume items, many of which are held at Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum on display (or indeed, in many cases, for visitors to try on).
Dalzell Colliery RecordsStrathclyde University ArchivesManuscript volumes containing survey inspections and reports, and journals of bores relating to the collieries on the Estate of Dalzell, belonging to John Glencairn Carter Hamilton.
Drumpellier Estate PapersNorth Lanarkshire Council Museums & HeritageThe papers detail family business, including land ownership and estate management and improvement, as well as some private papers.
Fife and Kinross' Miners AssociationNational Library of ScotlandPapers, 1901-1913, mostly minutes privately printed for the Executive Board members, during the general Secretaryships of John Weir (1901-8) and of William Adamson MP, who was later Secretary for Scot
General Committee of the Coal Masters of ScotlandGlasgow University Archive ServicesRecords of the General Committee of the Coal Masters of Scotland. This small collection consists of a committee minute book.
GeologyEast Lothian Council Museums ServiceEast Lothian Council Museums Service holds various notebooks on the geology around local coalfields as well as others from geology lectures and one on the lime industry, another industry to be found i
GeologyNational Mining Museum ScotlandThe museum’s collections begin with the many different types of coal and peat that illustrate the process whereby organic material became more compressed, from earthy peat and brown lignite, to bitu
GeologyNational Museums ScotlandA collection of various coal specimens (both raw and partly manufactured produce) ranging from anthracite, coal samples used in lead mining and copper smelting, bituminous, splint and cannel coal, to