Library Research Factsheet If you would like to know more about Nationalisation, please visit our Library to continue your research. You can access original source material as well as published documents, oral histories and a comprehensive collection of COAL magazine and Coal News. Library Opening Times: Tues: 10.00am - 12.30pm & 1.00pm - 4.00pm Thurs: 10.00am - 12.30pm & 1.00pm - 4.00pm
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Library Research Factsheet If you would like to know more about Nationalisation, please visit our Library to continue
your research. You can access original source material as well as published documents,
oral histories and a comprehensive collection of COAL magazine and Coal News.
Library Opening Times:
Tues: 10.00am - 12.30pm & 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Thurs: 10.00am - 12.30pm & 1.00pm - 4.00pm
A Library Research Factsheet
The National Coal Mining Museum for England celebrates the
anniversary of the Nationalisation of the coal industry. It was an event
which drew the whole industry together under the newly created
National Coal Board (NCB).
This guide provides a brief introduction to Nationalisation of the coal
industry with statistics and lists some of the many key resources availa-
ble in the Museum’s Library.
What was the Nationalisation of the Coalfields?
Nationalisation is the action of transferring private businesses and
companies to state ownership. Described as ‘the great experiment of
socialism’, over 900 pits were taken from the hands of private coal
companies and given over to public ownership by Clement Attlee’s
Labour Government. All mines and collieries with over thirty miners
came under the NCB, a single body which oversaw production and
development, regulated wages, introduced widespread safety and
welfare reforms and invested heavily in technological improvements.
This shift from hundreds of individual coal companies to a single body
was a task of mammoth proportions with far-reaching consequences.
This document focuses on the creation of the NCB and examines how
Nationalisation changed the landscape of British mining forever.
Key Dates
1 January 1945 - National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) formed
27 July 1945 - Labour Party win the General Election
19 December 1945 - Coal Industry Nationalisation Bill introduced
29- 30 December 1945 - 2nd reading of the Coal Industry
Nationalisation Bill in Parliament
12 July 1946 - Nationalisation given Royal Assent
15 July 1946 - NCB formed
23 July 1946 - First meeting of the NCB and NUM
1 January 1947 - Vesting Day - over 1000 privately run collieries
and subsidiary industries passed over to NCB
May 1947 - 1st issue of NCB ‘Coal’ magazine published
Statistics
By the end of 1947, the NCB had taken over the running of:
958 collieries out of 1,542 working collieries; all mines