Llafur News & Events

Keep up to date with all the latest goings on at Llafur and events relating to Welsh history.

Day School: Our Proudest Achievement? Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the NHS 07/07/2018
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Day School: Our Proudest Achievement? Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the NHS
07/07/2018
at Bedwellty House, Tredegar, NP22 3XN

Programme 10.00 Welcome and Introduction 10.20 Steve Thompson, Before the NHS: The Mixed Economy of Medical Care in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Wales 11.10 Natalie… Click to read more...
Day School: Family, Faith, Party, People 09/06/2018
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Day School: Family, Faith, Party, People
09/06/2018
at Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil

Programme 10.00 Welcome Huw Williams 10.30 “For Dowlais, for Spain and for Socialism” Daryl Leeworthy 11.10 “Growing up in the Party” Witness Seminar Chaired… Click to read more...
DACE/SWML Seminar Series 09/02/2018
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DACE/SWML Seminar Series
09/02/2018
at DOVE Workshop, Roman Road, Banwen, Neath, SA10 9LW

Missionaries and Visionaries: A Century of Adult Education by Swansea University, 1920-2020 Changing Wales, Changing Universities Talk given by Rob Humphreys, formerly director of… Click to read more...
Day School: Migration Matters – Wales and the World 17/03/2018
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Day School: Migration Matters – Wales and the World
17/03/2018
at Weston Learning Centre, St Fagans National Museum Wales

A day school to discuss emigration from and immigration into Wales, organised by Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society. To be held at the… Click to read more...
Day School: Too Soon to Know? The Impact of the Russian Revolutions on Wales and the Wider World 02/12/2017
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Day School: Too Soon to Know? The Impact of the Russian Revolutions on Wales and the Wider World
02/12/2017
at Swansea Museum, Victoria Road, Swansea, SA1 1SN

Programme 09.30 Welcome 09.40 David Selway   Strikes, Solidarity and Soviet Utopias: The Russian Revolution and the South Wales Coalfield, 1917-1972 10.20 James Ryan… Click to read more...
Day School: Dramatists and Drama in Twentieth-Century Industrial South Wales 14/10/2017
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Day School: Dramatists and Drama in Twentieth-Century Industrial South Wales
14/10/2017
at St Margaret’s Church Hall, Duffryn Road, Mountain Ash CF45 4DA

At 2.15pm, Fluellen Theatre Company will perform Philip H Burton’s play Granton Street   Tickets for the performance of Granton Street cost: £10 adults… Click to read more...
Book Launch: Joe England’s The Crucible of Modern Wales 23/09/2017
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Book Launch: Joe England’s The Crucible of Modern Wales
23/09/2017

Join us for the launch of Joe England’s Merthyr: The Crucible of Modern Wales, which is published by Parthian in its new Modern Wales… Click to read more...
Day School: Deindustrialisation and Wales 16/09/2017
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Day School: Deindustrialisation and Wales
16/09/2017
at Llay Miners' Welfare Hall, Wrexham, LL12 0TH

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… Click to read more...
Swansea University Department of Adult Continuing Education & South Wales Miners’ Library Seminar Series 23/06/2017
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Swansea University Department of Adult Continuing Education & South Wales Miners’ Library Seminar Series
23/06/2017
at Council Chamber, Singleton Abbey, Swansea University, SA2 8PP

Missionaries and Visionaries: A Century of Adult Education by Swansea University, 1920-2020 Friday 23 June 2017 at 2.30pm in the Council Chamber, Singleton Abbey… Click to read more...
West of England & South Wales Women’s History Network 24th Annual Conference 01/07/2017
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West of England & South Wales Women’s History Network 24th Annual Conference
01/07/2017
at The Llewellyn Suite, Coleg y Cymoedd, Aberdare Campus, Cwmdare Road, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF44 8ST

Women and the Labour Movement in Britain from 1880 to 1950 9.30 – Registration 10.00 – Welcome Keynote Lecture 10.10 – Karen Hunt (Keele… Click to read more...
Llafur Newsletter 2016
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Llafur Newsletter 2016
09/05/2017

In this edition: Darren Macey on ‘should the history of “one” be our prime concern? Chris Parry and Rhodri Hughes report on the 6 February 2016 Day School on Keir… Click to read more...
Day School: 50 Years of Women’s and Gay Liberation 25/03/2017
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Day School: 50 Years of Women’s and Gay Liberation
25/03/2017
at Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff, CF11 8AW

10.00 Welcome 10.15 Daryl Leeworthy, Liberation Activism: A Welsh Story, 1967-Present. 11.00 Avril Rolph, Searching in Haystacks: Researching the Women’s Liberation Movement. 11.45 Jenny… Click to read more...
George Ewart Evans Plaque Unveiling 01/04/2017
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George Ewart Evans Plaque Unveiling
01/04/2017
at 51-53 Glancynon Terrace, Abercynon, CF45 4TF

GEORGE EWART EVANS (1909-1988) COMMEMORATIVE EVENT 10.30am Plaque Unveiling Ceremony (Premier Stores 51-53 Glancynon Terrace) 11.00am Function for donors and sponsors at Llechwen Hall… Click to read more...
Terry Thomas Memorial 20/01/2017
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Terry Thomas Memorial
20/01/2017
at Gorseinon Workmen’s Club, Brighton Road, Gorseinon, Swansea SA4 4BN

A Celebration of the Life of TERRY THOMAS (Vice President, South Wales Area NUM, 1983-1989) Chair: Eric Davies Tributes from:  Hywel Francis, John Gaventa,… Click to read more...
Prof. Duncan Tanner Annual Memorial Seminar 23/02/2017
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Prof. Duncan Tanner Annual Memorial Seminar
23/02/2017
at Teras Room 3, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

Unreliable Memories of Blair, New Labour and Welsh Politics in the 1990s. Dr Kim Howells (Labour Member of Parliament for Pontypridd, 1989-2010) For more… Click to read more...
Day School: The Anti-War Movement in Wales 10/12/2016
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Day School: The Anti-War Movement in Wales
10/12/2016
at The Community Hall, Shelone Road, Briton Ferry, SA11 2NS

10.00 Welcome 10.10 Alun Burge – From Abertillery to the Kremlin Wall: The New Era Union Men’s Sunday School Class and the Impact of… Click to read more...
South Wales Women’s History Network Annual Conference 20/06/2015
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South Wales Women’s History Network Annual Conference
20/06/2015
at Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN

9.30 Registration 9.50 Welcome 10.00 Keynote Lecture: Selina Todd, (St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford), Women, Work and Family in 20th century England 11.00- 11.30… Click to read more...
Llafur Newsletter 2015
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Llafur Newsletter 2015
01/04/2016

In this edition:- Daryl Leeworthy reports on the 2015 AGM and Day School on the 1945 Labour Government, held at the Winding House, New Tredegar. Stephanie Ward reports on the… Click to read more...
Shaping the Labour Party Conference 23/03/2015 - 24/03/2015
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Shaping the Labour Party Conference
23/03/2015 - 24/03/2015
at Bangor University

To commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the election of the first majority Labour government in 1945, the School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology… Click to read more...
The Cost of Coal: 100 Years On From Senghenydd 03/10/2013
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The Cost of Coal: 100 Years On From Senghenydd
03/10/2013
at Coleg Morgannwg, Nantgarw  CF15 7QY 

Speakers include: Neil Evans – ‘Imagining and Remembering Senghenydd’ Bill Jones  – ‘A Welsh Mining Disaster in the U.S.A.: Avondale, Pennsylvania,September 1869’ Ben Curtis – ‘The Price… Click to read more...