Edwardian Mining in Old Postcards

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The Edwardian era was the heyday of the picture postcard with hundreds of millions of cards being mailed each year. The postcard was the text message of its heyday, and with such a huge market, the range of subjects featured on postcards was enormous. Coal mining was the subject of hundreds of different cards. Many of the images in this illustrated book have never been published before, bringing the life of the Edwardian miner to a new audience.