We've just started work to digitise this at the Common Room in Newcastle but we are very open to partnership working with the BNA. We have a couple of volumes missing in our run which we would love to source from elsewhere to complete the set so help from BNA would be appreciated.
Please do get in touch: Jennifer.hillyard[at]thecommonroom.org.uk

This would be an amazing resource for researchers and family history enthusiasts alike.

There were well over a million men employed in the British coal-mining industry in the early 1920s. Scratch almost anybody with working-class roots today and you'll discover a grandfather or a great-grandfather with a connection to the industry. The Colliery Guardian, 1858 and then, after this false start, 1860 to 1994 was the leading trade publication published weekly for over a century. It carried increasing amounts of personal information as the years went by from death notices and obituaries to notices of promotions, awards, and so on. It is a crucial resource for anyone researching the history of the industry whether its industrial relations, its economics, its technology, its legal aspects, or its politics.

Useful for people all over the country, and contains information which is often not recorded elsewhere. An important source for both family historians and those interested in mining history, not least because pits were highly unionised and there were many employers pre 1946 - if one reduced wages other pits would regularly come out in support, so what was happening in a Durham pit is relevant to e.g. S awles history, Notts history etc and vice versa.