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The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines (1865) was a book by economist William Stanle

The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two c