The books and online material listed below were very useful in providing background information on the articles in the Commentary and Context sections as well as the popups found in the Journal and the Poems. Further information on coal mining in North East England can be found at The Coal Industry – A Select Bibliography at the Durham Museum of Mining website.
Books
| BYRDE, Penelope | (1992) | A visual history of costume, the twentieth Century | London:Batsford |
| COLLS, Robert | (1989) | The pitmen of the northern coalfields | Manchester: Manchester University Press |
| FOSTER, Vanda | (1984) | A visual history of costume, the nineteenth century | London:Batsford |
| FYNES, Richard | (1873) | Miners of Northumberland and Durham | Blyth:John Robinson, Jun, Printer & Publisher (Available to read online at dmm.org.uk) |
| GALLOWAY, Robert L | (1882) | A history of coal mining in Great Britain | London:Macmillan and Co. |
| HOLMES, Frederick Morell | (1896) | Miners and their works underground | London:Partridge & Co. |
| HUGHES, Herbert W | (1893) | A text book of coal mining for the use of colliery managers and others | London:Charles Griffin & Co. |
| LAVER, James | (1969) | Costume and fashion, a concise history | London:Thames & Hudson |
| MASON, Peter Ford | (2018) | The pit sinkers of Northumberland and Durham | The History Press Ltd. |
| National Union of Mineworkers | (1989) | A century of struggle, Britain’s miners in pictures 1889-1989 | National Union of Mineworkers |
| NELSON BOYD, R M.Inst.E.C | (1892) | A short history of the coal trade | London:Whittaker & Co. |
| PREECE, Rosemary | (1998) | Coal mining and the camera | National Coal Mining Museum for England Trust Ltd. |
| SHRIMPTON, Jayne | (2008) | Family photographs and how to date them | Countryside Books |
| SHRIMPTON, Jayne | (2011) | How to get the most from family pictures | London:Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd. |
| SMAILES, A E | (1960) | North England (Regions Of The British Isles) | London:Nelson |
| THOMPSON, Dorothy | (1984) | The Chartists | London:Temple Smith |
| TONKS, David | (2010) | My ancestor was a coal miner | London:Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd |
| WALTON, Thomas H | (1885) | Coal mining described and illustrated | London:Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington |
| WILSON, Francis H | (1913) | Coal – its origin, method of working and preparation for market | London:Sir Isaac Pitman |
Online Articles
| BALL, Peter | (2015) | Hard Rock Mining in South Africa – The Cornish Connection | The Heritage Portal (online) |
| DU PLOOY, Janetta | (2004) | The West Rand During the Anglo-Boer War | The eGGSA branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa (online) |
| DUGMORE, Charles F | (2008) | The making of Krugersdorp, 1887-1923 | WIReDSpace (online) |
| KATZ, Elaine Natalie | (1990) | The White Death: Silicosis (Miners’ Phthisis) on the Witwatersrand gold mines, 1886-1910 | Core (online) |
| MUNRO, Kathy | (2018) | Photographs of Johannesburg circa 1892 | The Heritage Portal (online) |
| MUNRO, Kathy | (2019) | Travelling to South Africa via the Union Castle Line | The Heritage Portal (online) |
| SMITH, Matthew John | (1993) | Working in the grave: The development of a health and safety system on the Witwatersrand gold mines, 1900-1939 | Core (online) |
| SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY ONLINE | (2011) | Discovery of the Gold in 1884 | South African History Online |
Useful links
| ENGLAND’S NORTH EAST | Houghton-le-Spring | |
| FATFIELD AND RIVERSIDE | Fatfield and Riverside | |
| JOHNSON, Alex | (2000) | Barlow 1925-1935 |
| JOHNSON, Alex | (2000) | High Spen A Hundred Years |
| HOUGHTON HERITAGE SOCIETY | Houghton Heritage Society | |
| PEARS, Brian | (2010) | High Spen & District |
| SMITH, Mark | (2003) | The Tokens, Tickets & Passes of the Harton Coal Company |
| THOMPSON, William | (2014) | Victoria Garesfield |
| WOODHORN MUSEUM | Woodhorn Museum | |
| WYLAM PARISH COUNCIL | A walk round Wylam |