Day School: Deindustrialisation and Wales
Event Location:
Llay Miners' Welfare Hall, Wrexham, LL12 0TH
Event Date: 16/09/2017
Llay Miners' Welfare Hall, Wrexham, LL12 0TH
Event Date: 16/09/2017
Event Starts:
16/9/17 10:00 am
Event Ends:
16/9/17 04:00 pm
- 10:00 Welcome
- 10:10 Vic Tyler-Jones Llay Main: Its Colliery and Village.
- 10:55 Bleddyn Penny Protest and Pragmatism: Welsh Steelworkers’ Responses to Deindustrialisation.
- 11:40 Leon Gooberman The Rise and Fall of the BNS/ICI Factory at Pontypool: A Case Study of Deindustrialisation.
- 12:30 Lunch Break (Tea and coffee will be available, but there will be no lunch provided at this event).
- 13:15 Keith Gildart The Decline of Coal Mining in North East Wales, 1947-1996.
- 14:00 Iwan England Aberfan: The Fight for Justice.
- 14:45 Valerie Walkerdine Gender, Work and Community after Deindustrialisation: The Case of a Former Steel Town in South Wales.
- 15:30 Closing Remarks
This event is FREE to attend and a warm welcome is extended to all.
To book your free place and register please visit our Eventbrite page. (Click here.)
Or contact the Events Secretary, James Phillips: PhillipsJ14@cardiff.ac.uk
Photograph: Chris Sampson, Flickr Commons