ABSTRACT
On 13 April 1923, the Colliery Guardian, the journalistic voice of the British coal trade, published a short sketch of Joseph Albert Pease, Baron Gainford of Headlam, and above it a formal photograph of the man. This presentation of Lord Gainford to the business world of coal represented a new departure for the paper, the start of an illustrated series devoted to the ‘Men of Note in the British Coal Industry’. Appearing in every other issue of the weekly trade journal, the feature ran for six years, coming to an end on 1 March 1929. In this time, the Colliery Guardian honoured 155 individuals as ‘Men of Note’.
