The Derbyshire Miners' Association was a trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 in the United Kingdom

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The union was founded in 1880 to represent coal miners in northern Derbyshire

Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

, as a split from the South Yorkshire Miners' Association. Although it initially aimed to recruit members from across the county, it only developed strength in the north Derbyshire coalfield, and the separate South Derbyshire Amalgamated Miners' Association was founded in 1883.

In 1945, the union became the Derbyshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers.

Secretaries

1880: James Haslam

James Haslam

James Haslam was a British politician, representing Chesterfield as an MP from 1906 to 1913Before entering Parliament in 1906, Haslam had served as a leading official of the Derbyshire Miners’ Association since its inception some 30 years earlier...

1913: W. E. Harvey

William Edwin Harvey

William Edwin Harvey , known as W. E. Harvey, was a British Lib-Lab Member of Parliament.Born in Hasland, Derbyshire, Harvey worked in a coal mine from the age of ten. He joined the South Yorkshire Miners' Association in 1869, and was a the union's local delegate by 1872...

1914: Frank Hall

1928: Harry Hicken

1942:

1950s: Bert Wynn

1973: Peter Heathfield

Peter Heathfield

Peter Heathfield was a British trade unionist who was general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers between 1984 and 1992, including the period of the miners' strike of 1984/85....

1984:

Austin Fairest

Presidents

1880: Richard Bunting

1885: Barnet Kenyon

Barnet Kenyon

Barnet Kenyon was a British colliery worker, trade union official and Lib–Lab, later Liberal politician.-Early career:...

1906: James Martin

1920s: Enoch Overton

Hugo Street

1946: Samuel Greenough

1966: Dennis Skinner

Dennis Skinner

Dennis Edward Skinner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bolsover since 1970, the Chairman of the Labour Party from 1988 to 1989, and has sat on the National Executive Committee numerous times since 1978.Born in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, Skinner is the...

1970:

1972: Raymond Ellis

Raymond Ellis

Raymond Joseph Ellis was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Sheffield, Ellis was MP for North East Derbyshire from 1979 to 1987, when he retired. He died in Sheffield aged 70.-References:...

1979:

Alan Gascoyne

Vice-President

1903: Frederick Bonsall

1904: James Martin

1906: Frederick Bonsall

1906: Frank Hall

1907: William Sewell

1920s: Samuel Sales

1938: Henry White

Henry White (UK politician)

Henry White was a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament for the constituency of North East Derbyshire from 1942-1959....

1942: Harold Neal

Harold Neal

Harold Neal was a British Labour politician. He was Member of Parliament for Clay Cross from a 1944 by-election to 1950, and after boundary changes, for Bolsover from 1950 until his retirement 1970, preceding Dennis Skinner...

1944: Samuel Greenough

1946: Michael Kane