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By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
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Discuss the range of activities involved in working in the mining industry in the long nineteenth century, and how these changed during the period covered by the course.
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Assess representations of working lives in the mines and mining artefacts and discuss how they relate to wider questions of class, gender, and political and professional identity.
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Reflect how mining work impacted on the body in this period
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Engage with written and oral material on workers’ lives within the appropriate historical and material contexts.
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Engage with online resources, including museum archives, and perform searches in these and other archives for material relevant to mining history and workers’ lives.
