References to affrays with poaching colliers frequently appear in the portraits of gamekeepers in this journal.
Since the introduction of regulation in 1850, occupational mortality had steadily improved amongst colliers.
In the course of this inspection a shaft collapses, trapping him and fourteen colliers.
On the contrary, it makes no provision for farmers, colliers, common laborers, carters, and carpenters without whom there would be no commonwealth at all.
The specific vulnerability of colliers is certainly not a new phenomenon.
Serious incursions from the colliers occurred in 1727, 1731, 1735 and 1738.
However, this differential is more pronounced among labourers and colliers, suggesting that, at the lower social levels, harsher conditions preyed more on the vulnerable and sharpened this selective effect.
Although the number of vessels engaged in the trade shrank somewhat, the sailing colliers which had been around 100 tons in the seventeenth century were averaging 312 by 1730.
