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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History

magazine. Historically, how much would a British miner have earned for a hard day's work? What would they

have worn underground? And how did adding baths to the pit heads create much-needed change?

In conversation with Loring Good for today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode,

Professor Robert Coles explores the history of working down British mines

and explains how, despite it being brutal hard, there was also beauty to be found.

We're talking all about mining history today and I think much of our conversation might lean towards history in more recent centuries.

But let's start at the very beginning with a question we've had from Instagram. How did mining in

the UK actually begin? Well, it's a funny old world,

isn't it? There was a time when pieces of coal were everywhere. They got up your nose,

they got in your fingernails, they were in every street, they were in every house. Coal was everywhere.

Now my grandchildren don't know what coal is.

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