The Wackerfield Dyke, County Durham

The Gothic Revival in Northumberland & County Durham

Coal miners' pneumoconiosis in four collieries in county Durham.

Clinical experience (Browne, Beck, and McCallum, 1949) and rising certification figures by the Pneumoconiosis Medical Board show that there is a pneumoconiosis problem amongst Durham coalminers. Moreover, a study of large films, taken following routine mass miniature radiography (M.M.R.) at eight Durham pits (McCallum, 1952), suggested that at least 3 to 6% of miners at these pits had well mark...

Pious physic for the poor: the lost Durham County medical scheme of 1655.

The provision of some sort of medical care for the poor was widely recognized in late medieval and early modem Europe as a religious duty and a civic necessity. The choice of methods depended upon a variety of local factors, such as religious politics, the political situation, the scope of bureaucratic intervention, and the development of the medical professions. The political will to provide n...

The Dyke Marsh Preserve Ecosystem

For over a centmy, Dyke marsh along the Potomac River just south of Alexandria, VA, has been a favorite site for natural history studies. Despite earlier attempts at diking to create agricultural land and dredging for sand and gravel, the remaining marsh represents the last major tidal freshwater wetland on the upper Potomac River, and is now owned and maintained by the National Park Seivice as...

Citizenship, Sustainability and Participation in Neighbourhood Renewal in Ex-Mining Communities in County Durham By

The working paper describes a study which aims to examine and evaluate local community responses to environmental degradation, and factors assisting or hampering local involvement in neighbourhood environmental renewal in two Durham coalfield communities in the UK, an area characterised by high levels of unemployment, poverty, poor health and environmental degradation. A postal survey and focus...