GB0197 DDMF Doncaster Archives Department This catalogue was digitised by The National Archives as part of the National Register of Archives digitisation project NRA 32716 JA The National Archives Acc.1060,1070 and 1296 DD MF DONCASTER METROPOLITAN BOROUGH - ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT J.E. MACFARLANE, M.A.(1930-1985) ; ACADEMIC AND POLITICAL PAPERS DEPOSITED IN DONCASTER ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT 1986 and 1989 DD .MF TABLE OF CONTENTS 1-5 DENABY MAIN AND DISTRICT 1/1-46 DENABY AND CADEBY MAIN COLLIERIES LTD, 1875-1946 TITLE DEEDS AND OTHER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS 1/47-56 CADEBY DISASTER RELIEF FUND 1912-1946 ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE 1/57-70 OTHER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS 1880s-1951 2/1-26 PHOTOCOPIES : GENERAL 1868-1972 2/27-59 PHOTOCOPIES : NEWSPAPERS 1866-1940 3/1-25 PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH WORKING 186 9-1970s PAPERS 3/26-34 ORAL HISTORY 1971-1972 3/35-39 PHOTOGRAPHS 1950s-1970s 4/1-21 CENSUS ANALYSIS AND CENSUS 1861-1981 ENUMERATORS' RETURNS 5/1-8 "DENABY MAIN : 100 YEARS OF INDUSTRIAL 1970s HISTORY' 6/1-84 NATIONAL UNION OF MINERS AND THE COAL 1932-1985 INDUSTRY 7/1-6 YORKSHIRE MINERS1 ESSAYS 1975-1979 8/1-14 NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES: 1969-1970 COAL PRICE REFERENCE 9/1-36 JTE COLLINS : PERSONAL PAPERS 1917-1978 10/1-17 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN 1973-1980 SOUTH YORKSHIRE 11/1-15 FULLERTON AND MONTAGUE HOSPITALS 1978-1984 RETENTION CAMPAIGN 12/1-118 TRADE UNIONISM AND THE MERCHANT NAVY 1913-1977 \ 13/1-22 PAY BOARD : REFERENCE ON THE RELATIVE 1973-1974 PAY OF MINERS 14/1-16 PRINTED WORKS 1930-1977 DD .MF J.E. MACFARLANE, M.A. (1930-1985) James Edward MacFarlane was born on 27 April 1930 at Denaby Main, a South Yorkshire coal-mining village. He was the second child and only son of Edward and Harriet MacFarlane. His father,a mineworker, was involved in mining trade unionism and local politics (see item 9/27 in"this catalogue), but died after a short illness in 1936. An interview by J E MacFarlane with his mother concerning her early life and first marriage can be found at DD.MF/3/33. From the age of fourteen, the son was employed, like his father and grandfather at Denaby Main Colliery. Its history and that of the mining community it created was to become one of the main pre-occupations of his adult life. However, two years later he joined the merchant navy, working his way up from deck-boy to able seaman. After eight years at sea he returned to coal mining in 1954 and over the following three years attended the day-release course for mineworkers at the Extra Mural Department (now the Division of Continuing Education) of the University of Sheffield. In 1957 he won a trade union scholarship to Ruskin College Oxford for the two-year course leading to the Diploma in Political and Economic Science which he obtained in 1959. Between 1960 and 1963 he was a student at the University of Southampton reading for a B.Sc(Econ) in Government and Politics. In his third year, having previously been very active in the Students' Union, he was elected President of the Union. This was a sabbatical post, and at the end of his term of office he decided to leave the university rather than persue the third year of studies leading to the final examination. A fellow student, Mr Liam 0'Sullivan, now a lecturer in the Department of Politics remembers him as 'a man of broad general culture deeply excited by ideas, who was in many ways exceptionally scholarly'. During 1964 and 1965 he worked in Northern Greece as a field director of one of the United Nations Associations Freedom from Hunger Development Programmes. He then entered the University of Sussex to take a postgraduate course in Labour Studies, leading to the award of the degree of Master of Arts in 1967. This was followed in 1968 by registration for a Ph.D on "the industrial and social relations of merchant seamen', a subject of which he alreadyx had some first-hand knowledge, at the University of Strathclyde. A number of publications resulted from this research (see DD.MF.12/1-5) but the thesis was never completed. The principal reason for the interruption of this research was probably Mr MacFarlane's appointment in 1969 as a lecturer in industrial studies in the Division of Continuing Education of the University of Sheffield. In this post he was director of the day-release course for mineworkers, the course by which he himself had begun his career in higher education a dozen years earlier. A product of his work on the course was the production of two volumes of essays written by miners on the course, (see DD.MF/7/1-6). In the 1970s he was engaged in research on the social and industrial history of Denaby Main, and between 1973 and 1982 was registered as a part-time postgraduate student at the Centre for the Study of Social History in the University of Warwick. His life-long interest in the history of the community in which he was born and spent much of his life led to the accumulation of research notes, photocopies, transcripts and original documents which form the greater part of his papers, (see DD.MF/1-6 and 9). His involvement, academic and personal, in the coal industry and mining unionism is witnessed in the items catalogued here in sections 6, 8 and 13. Political affairs, both academic and practical (some evidence of which is to be found in DD.MF/10 and 11) were also to the forefront of his interests and in May 1980 he was elected to Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council as a councilor for the Conisbrough Ward. His abilities led to his rapid promotion to the position of Leader of the Council after only three years but in 1985 he died suddenly whilst engaged on council business. \ \ PUBLICATIONS OF J E MACFARLANE 1 Bonus Qualifications in the Coal Mines1 a letter published in The Times, 13 April 1957 (see DD MF/3/1) 1 Sea-Change Aboard Ship1 Management Today, Sep 1967 pages 45,48,50 and 55 (see DD MF/12/1) "British Shipping and Manpower Planning' Management Today. August 1969 1 Merchant Seamen Aboard Ship - A Study of the Workplace' Industrial Relations Journal, December 1970 pages 66-76 (see DD MF/12/5) 'Shipboard Union Representation in the British Merchant Navy' International Review of Social History, volume 15, 1970 pages 1-18 (see DD MF/12/4) ""Our Seamen" - A Study of Labour Relations in the British Merchant Navy' Trade Union Register, 1970, pages 137-152 (see DD MF/12/3) "Thomas (Tommy) Lewis1 Dictionary of Labour Biography, volume 1, edited by J M Bellamy and J Saville, Macmillan, 1972 pages 215-218 "Essays in Oral History - Denaby Main : a South Yorkshire Mining Village" Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin no 25 Autumn 1972, pages 82-100 (see DD.MF/3/4, 3/33. 3/34 and 14/9 'JTE (Eddie) Collins - Socialist and Miners' Leader' Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin no. 26, Spring 1973, pages 39-42 (see DD MF/9) "Coalminers at University - A Second Chance at Education' Adult Education volume 48 no 2, July 1975, pages 81-88 (see DD MF/7/6) "Getting the Message Through to the Coalface 'The Times Higher Education Supplement. 31 October 1974 'Denaby Main Colliery' Colliery Guardian, March 1976, pages 92-93 (see DD MF/3/2) "The Denaby Main Lock-Out of 1885' Essays in the Economic and Social History of South Yorkshire edited by S Pollard and C Holmes, South Yorkshire County Council, 1976 (see DD MF/3/3) Denaby Main : A South Yorkshire Mining Village' Studies in the Yorkshire Coal Industry, edited by J Benson and R G Neville, Manchester University Press, 1976 (see DD MF/3/4) 'Counter-Offensive for a South Yorkshire Mining Community' The Independent Collier edited by R Harrison, Harvester Press 1978 "Barnsley Labour Party-Arthur Scargill v Roy Mason' (jointly with Andrew Taylor) New Statesman, 30 November 1979 Coalminers, Glassworkers and Potters : A Profile of the Denaby Area 1801-1871, Doncaster Library Service, 1982 Blood on Your Coal, Doncaster Library Service, 1985 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES The following articles, all based on census data (see DD MF/4) were all published in the South Yorkshire Times Conisbrough in 1861, 28 August 1971 Denaby in 1861, 7 August 1971 Denaby in 1871, 6 May and 20 May 1972 Mexborough in 1861, 11 September 1971 Mexborough in 1871, 12 August 1977 REVIEW ARTICLES "Personnel Management in Merchant Ships' The Seaman February 1969 pages 43-44 "Trade Unionism and Maritime Affairs' The Seaman April 1969, page 104 'The New Zealand Seamen's Union' Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, no 27 Autumn 1972 pages 75-78 WORKS EDITED BY J E MACFARLANE See DD MF/7 South Yorkshire and the Mining People, University of Sheffield, Department of Extra-Mural Studies, 1975 Essays from the Yorkshire Coalfield, University of Sheffield, Division of Continuing Education, 1979 DD.MF/1 DENABY AND CADEBY MAIN COLLIERIES LTD, TITLE DEEDS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS 1875-1946 Most of these documents concern the raising of finance by the company through mortgages of the houses and other properties it had built at Denaby Main. 1 Letter from Bell Stewards and Co, 11 Aug 1875 Lincoln's Inn Fields to F.W. Fisher, solicitor, Doncaster concerning a mortgage of 24 July 1875 from the Denaby Main Colliery Co to Andrew Montague to secure £10,000 2 Denaby Main Colliery Co to Andrew 26 Mar 1877 Montague of Ingmanthorpe Hall Mortgage and further charge to secure two sums of £10,000 and £20,000 3 Denaby Main Colliery Co to Andrew 25 Feb 1881 Montague Mortgage of leasehold dwellinghouses at Underhill Fields, Conisbrough for securing £3,040 and further advances not exceeding £5,000 4 Denaby Main Colliery Co to Andrew 24 Dec 1884 Montague Further charge on leasehold dwelling­ houses at Underhill Fields Conisbrough for securing £2,109 5 William Wastneys of the Conservative Club, 10 Jan 1885 St.