Skipsey, Joseph
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Name (Latin)
Skipsey, Joseph
Date of birth
1832-03-17
Date of death
1903-09-03
Associated country
Great Britain
Occupation
Coal miners
Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Songs and lyrics (1892):English poetry full-text database : bibliography (Joseph Skipsey, 1832-1903)
- OCLC, 04/11/00(hdg.: Skipsey, Joseph; usage: Joseph Skipsey)
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Skipsey
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unknown photographer c1850s, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
Joseph Skipsey (17 March 1832 – 3 September 1903) was a Northumbrian poet during the Victorian period and one of a number of literary coal miners to be known as 'The Pitman Poet'. Among his best known works is the ballad "The Hartley Calamity", which imagined the last hours of several of those trapped underground during the Hartley Colliery Disaster of January 1862. This devastating mining accident killed a total of 204 men and boys and remains England's most catastrophic pit disaster.
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