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South Derbyshire Miners' Association
The South Derbyshire Miners' Association was a trade union representing coal miners in the Derbyshire area of England. The union was founded in 1888, and was originally known as the South Derbyshire Amalgamated Miners' Association.[1] By the following year, it had 2,140 members, although this fell to only 1,408 in 1898. Thereafter, it gradually rebuilt membership, which peaked at more than 6,000 in the 1920s.[2] In 1889, the union was a founder constituent of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.[3] In 1945, this became the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), and the union became its South Derbyshire Area, with less autonomy than before.[2] In 1985, the South Derbyshire Area split away from the NUM, to become a founder constituent of the new Union of Democratic Mineworkers.[2] General Secretaries
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