Mining Review 13th Year No.12

Absorbing overview of coalmining in the early years of nationalisation.

Miners' safety training - marked by stylish animation and gallows humour.

Coal, between the world wars, makes the industrialised world go round and Cory Bros & Co Ltd, with collieries in south Wales and oil refineries across the globe, is a major player.

Memories of Blaenavon Colliery, Monmouthshire, as it nears its end.

Elegiac sponsored film imploring viewers to "allow the sun to penetrate the haze of ignorance" and relieve British cities of pollution.

Deliriously kitsch recruitment ad for the implausibly glamorous world of coalmining.

Is the sale of celebrity endorsed tennis gear a big racket or a match winning ace?

If affluence creates its own junkyard, can man also use wealth to restore ecology?

From Llanduff to Castleford on an intriguingly odd tour of the UK's coal industry

The return of the 'Knotty': the long lost North Staffordshire Railway is reborn at Cheddleton.

The British are crazy about their animals: Molly drinks tea with her chimps, Sylvia dyes her tiny poodle pink and Malcolm sings to his pigs.

A wartime magazine made to motivate and inform war workers, commissioned by the Ministry of Information in 1942 and exclusively screened in factories.

Daniel Kokotajlo talks to Nia Childs about Starve Acre, his folk horror about a couple digging deep into grief in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

Sky Peals director Moin Hussain and lead actor Faraz Ayub talk to Tomisin Adepeju about their magic realist drama.

Documentary exploring the BFI National Archive’s role in rediscovering and remastering the early films of Michael Powell.

Bryony Dixon, curator of silent film at the BFI national archive, explores the origins of a series of comic travelogues, and Michael Powell's involvement in making them.

Discover why Dan George of Northumbria University believes everyone should experience Oldboy at least once.

Trixie Parkin-Christie of Northumbria University offers fresh insight into why Wings of Desire remains essential viewing.