J.E. MACFARLANE, M.A. (1930-1985) ; ACADEMIC AND POLITICAL PAPERS

DD/MF

J.E. MACFARLANE, M.A. (1930-1985) ; ACADEMIC AND POLITICAL PAPERS

DD/MF/1-5 DENABY MAIN AND DISTRICT

DD/MF/1/1-46 DENABY AND CADEBY MAIN COLLIERIES LTD, TITLE DEEDS AND OTHER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS 1875-1946

DD/MF/1/47-56 CADEBY DISASTER RELIEF FUND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE 1912-1946

DD/MF/1/57-70 OTHER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS 1880s-1951

DD/MF/2/1-26 PHOTOCOPIES : GENERAL 1868-1972

DD/MF/2/27-59 PHOTOCOPIES : NEWSPAPERS 1866-1940

DD/MF/3/1-25 PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS 1869-1970s

DD/MF/3/26-34 ORAL HISTORY 1971-1972

DD/MF/3/35-39 PHOTOGRAPHS 1950s-1970s

DD/MF/4/1-21 CENSUS ANALYSIS AND CENSUS ENUMERATORS' RETURNS 1861-1981

DD/MF/5/1-8 'DENABY MAIN : 100 YEARS OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY' 1970s

DD/MF/6/1-84 NATIONAL UNION OF MINERS AND THE COAL INDUSTRY 1932-1985

DD/MF/7/1-6 YORKSHIRE MINERS' ESSAYS 1975-1979

DD/MF/8/1-14 NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES: COAL PRICE REFERENCE 1969-1970

DD/MF/9/1-36 JTE COLLINS : PERSONAL PAPERS 1917-1978

DD/MF/10/1-17 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN SOUTH YORKSHIRE 1973-1980

DD/MF/11/1-15 FULLERTON AND MONTAGUE HOSPITALS RETENTION CAMPAIGN 1978-1984

DD/MF/12/1-118 TRADE UNIONISM AND THE MERCHANT NAVY 1913-1977

DD/MF/13/1-22 PAY BOARD : REFERENCE ON THE RELATIVE PAY OF MINERS 1973-1974

DD/MF/14/1-16 PRINTED WORKS 1930-1977

PUBLICATIONS OF J E MACFARLANE

'Bonus Qualifications in the Coal Mines' a letter published in The Times, 13 April 1957 (see DD/MF/3/1)

'Sea-Change Aboard Ship' Management Today, Sep 1967 pages 45, 48, 50 and 55 (see DD/MF/12/1)

'British Shipping and Manpower Planning' Management Today. August 1969

'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) Lewis' 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

English

DEPOSITED IN DONCASTER ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT 1986 and 1989

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 DD/MF/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 O'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 Association's 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 already 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 DD/MF/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 DD/MF/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.