Llafur News & Events

Keep up to date with all the latest goings on at Llafur and events relating to Welsh history.
				    			What’s Happening in Black British History? XIV – Call for Papers
										
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											What’s Happening in Black British History? XIV – Call for Papers

																		29/11/2021

											A message from our partners, the Black British History group. Following the success of our previous events in London, Liverpool, Bristol, Preston, Huddersfield and Leicester, we would like to invite… Click to read more...																
										
											Llafur Online Event & AGM – Strikes, Lockouts and Collective Memories: Remembering 1921 and 1926
											27/11/2021
										
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											Llafur Online Event & AGM – Strikes, Lockouts and Collective Memories: Remembering 1921 and 1926

								27/11/2021

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								Llafur invites you to our latest online event and 2021 AGM. Reflecting on his early life in Tredegar in In Place of Fear (1952),… Click to read more...			
																
				    			Exhibition – Imagining History: Wales in Fiction and Fact / Dychmygu Hanes: Cymru mewn Ffuglen a Ffaith
										
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											Exhibition – Imagining History: Wales in Fiction and Fact / Dychmygu Hanes: Cymru mewn Ffuglen a Ffaith

																		25/10/2021

											The paintings, installations, photographs, sculptures, stories, and films on display, chosen from the USW Artworks Museum Collection, as well as works on loan from other collections, artists, or writers, are… Click to read more...																
										
											Exhibition – Imagining History: Wales in Fiction and Fact / Dychmygu Hanes: Cymru mewn Ffuglen a Ffaith
											12/11/2021 - 17/12/2021
										
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											Exhibition – Imagining History: Wales in Fiction and Fact / Dychmygu Hanes: Cymru mewn Ffuglen a Ffaith

								12/11/2021 - 17/12/2021

								 at Oriel y Bont, Treforest Campus, University of South Wales
								
								The paintings, installations, photographs, sculptures, stories, and films on display, chosen from the USW Artworks Museum Collection, as well as works on loan from… Click to read more...			
																
											Online Conference – Imagining History: Wales in Fiction and Fact / Dychmygu Hanes: Cymru mewn Ffuglen a Ffaith
											12/11/2021 - 13/11/2021
										
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											Online Conference – Imagining History: Wales in Fiction and Fact / Dychmygu Hanes: Cymru mewn Ffuglen a Ffaith

								12/11/2021 - 13/11/2021

								 at Hosted online by the University of South Wales - With an accompanying Exhibition at Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales
								
								Imagined histories in the form of historical fiction, films or television programmes are often at the heart of how we think about our national… Click to read more...			
																
				    			Picturing Our Past/ Fframio’n Gorffenno – App
										
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											Picturing Our Past/ Fframio’n Gorffenno – App

																		29/09/2021

											Picturing Our Past / Fframio’n Gorffennol brings to vivid life the history of Welsh film and television. Its five chapters follow the compelling story from early pioneering silent film making, through… Click to read more...																
										
											Llafur and Co-ops & Mutuals Wales Event – Robert Owen’s Legacy, Welsh Co-operative Movement History and Co-operative Learning
											03/07/2021
										
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											Llafur and Co-ops & Mutuals Wales Event – Robert Owen’s Legacy, Welsh Co-operative Movement History and Co-operative Learning

								03/07/2021

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								International Co-operators Day – Llafur and Co-ops & Mutual Wales Event Robert Owen’s Legacy, Welsh Co-operative Movement History and Co-operative Learning – What lessons… Click to read more...			
																
											Llafur Online Event – ‘The glorious harbinger of a new society’ – The Paris Commune and its Legacy
											27/05/2021
										
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											Llafur Online Event – ‘The glorious harbinger of a new society’ – The Paris Commune and its Legacy

								27/05/2021

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								On 18th March 1871, the Central Committee of the Commune seized Paris, governing the capital of France for seventy-two days before a bloody and… Click to read more...			
																
				    			Imagining History: Wales in fiction and fact – Call for papers
										
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											Imagining History: Wales in fiction and fact – Call for papers

																		28/04/2021

											Imagining History: Wales in fiction and fact/ Dychmygu Hanes: Cymru mewn ffuglen a ffaith   Conference 12-13 November 2021  at Pontypridd Museum and University of South Wales  OR virtually, depending on… Click to read more...																
										
				    			The Ieuan Gwynedd Jones Essay Prize
										
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											The Ieuan Gwynedd Jones Essay Prize

																		10/04/2021

											Llafur, The Welsh People’s History Society is pleased to announce the Ieuan Gwynedd Jones Essay Prize. Professor Ieuan Gwynedd Jones (1921-2018) was one of the most insightful of Welsh social… Click to read more...																
										
											Llafur Spring Series: Migration and Wales
											20/02/2021 - 24/04/2021
										
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											Llafur Spring Series: Migration and Wales

								20/02/2021 - 24/04/2021

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								We are pleased to announce our new series of online Llafur events on the theme of Migration and Wales.  All the events will be… Click to read more...			
																
				    			Letter to the Welsh Government regarding the National Library of Wales
										
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											Letter to the Welsh Government regarding the National Library of Wales

																		05/02/2021

											Llafur: Welsh People’s History Society welcomes the news that the Welsh Government will provide additional funding to the National Library of Wales for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 financial years, which… Click to read more...																
										
				    			Llafur Spring Series:  Migration and Wales
										
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											Llafur Spring Series:  Migration and Wales

																		30/01/2021

											We are pleased to announce our new series of online Llafur events on the theme of Migration and Wales.  All the events will be held via Zoom.  They are free… Click to read more...																
										
											‘Breaking out from the Cocoon’ – Commemorating 50 Years of Llafur, Past, Present and Future & AGM
											05/12/2020
										
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											‘Breaking out from the Cocoon’ – Commemorating 50 Years of Llafur, Past, Present and Future & AGM

								05/12/2020

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								In the first edition of the Llafur journal, produced in 1972, the society’s inaugural chair, and future president, Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, encouraged members to… Click to read more...			
																
											Online Llafur Event – Swansea Copper: A Global History Book Launch
											14/11/2020
										
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											Online Llafur Event – Swansea Copper: A Global History Book Launch

								14/11/2020

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								During the eighteenth century, a revolutionary new ‘Welsh process’ of efficiently smelting copper led to Swansea becoming the epicentre of the global copper industry.… Click to read more...			
																
				    			From the Llafur archives…
										
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											From the Llafur archives…

																		21/10/2020

											To mark our 50th anniversary, we will be sharing items from the Llafur archive. We start with this letter sent on this day 50 years ago by founder member and… Click to read more...																
										
											Online Llafur Event – ‘To strive for a world of justice’ – Community, Internationalism, and the Campaign for Peace in Interwar Wales
											10/10/2020
										
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											Online Llafur Event – ‘To strive for a world of justice’ – Community, Internationalism, and the Campaign for Peace in Interwar Wales

								10/10/2020

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								In the aftermath of the First World War, Welsh communities took concerted action in the name of internationalism, peace and equality with an increasing… Click to read more...			
																
				    			Llafur summer series: Black Lives Matter
										
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											Llafur summer series: Black Lives Matter

																		12/09/2020

											A message from our President, Hywel Francis: We hope you all enjoyed the Llafur summer series. It is incumbent on us all to actively speak out and act against the… Click to read more...																
										
				    			Llafur at 50!
										
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											Llafur at 50!

																		29/08/2020

											Llafur was founded 50 years ago in September 1970. We are appealing to members to share photos of the past 50 years of Llafur.  If you have any photos of… Click to read more...																
										
											Online Llafur Event 6
											29/08/2020
										
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											Online Llafur Event 6

								29/08/2020

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								Online Llafur Event 6  – ‘The Proud Valley’ – Paul Robeson and Wales  In the final chapter of Llafur’s summer series, we conclude with… Click to read more...			
																
											Online Llafur Event 5 – Q+A – Wales and Slavery
											26/08/2020
										
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											Online Llafur Event 5 – Q+A – Wales and Slavery

								26/08/2020

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								Join us for an extended question and answer session on Wales’ connections to slavery. Welcoming back guest speakers Chris Evans, Marian Gwyn and Audrey… Click to read more...			
																
											Llafur Online Event 4
											15/08/2020
										
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											Llafur Online Event 4

								15/08/2020

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								Crossing the Colour Line: Empire, War and Racial Violence, 1900-1925  Llafur’s online event series continues on Saturday 15th August at 11am with a talk from… Click to read more...			
																
											Llafur Online Event 3
											01/08/2020
										
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											Llafur Online Event 3

								01/08/2020

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								Join us for the third in our series of Online Llafur Events on Saturday 1 August at 11am. Llafur’s online event series continues with… Click to read more...			
																
											Online Llafur Event
											18/07/2020
										
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											Online Llafur Event

								18/07/2020

								Join us for the second in our series of Online Llafur Events: STOP THE SPRINGBOKS! – Wales and Opposition to Apartheid Fifty years ago,… Click to read more...			
																
											Online Llafur Event
											11/07/2020
										
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											Online Llafur Event

								11/07/2020

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								Darren Macey and Chris Hill reflect on controversial histories of ‘race’ and empire in Welsh memorials and monuments, inspired by the fall of Edward… Click to read more...			
																
				    			May 2020 – An update for all Llafur members
										
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											May 2020 – An update for all Llafur members

																		22/05/2020

											The latest issue of the Llafur journal has been completed. Unfortunately, due to ongoing coronavirus restrictions, there is currently a delay to delivery from the printers and distribution to members.… Click to read more...																
										
											1919: Race Riots & Revolt
											17/04/2020
										
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											1919: Race Riots & Revolt

								17/04/2020

								 at Museum of Cardiff The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1BH
								
								10.30am      Welcome and Introductions 10.40am      Aled Eirug (Morgan Academy: Swansea University):  1919 The Year of Rebellion 11.15am      Gaynor Legall (Chair: The Heritage & Cultural… Click to read more...			
																
				    			Hywel Francis is conferred as new Llafur President
										
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											Hywel Francis is conferred as new Llafur President

																		25/01/2020

											Hywel Francis has been conferred as the President of Llafur: the Welsh People’s History Society at its Annual General Meeting in Cardiff on 16 November 2019.  He succeeds the late… Click to read more...																
										
											Day School:  Fighting Back – Wales and Public Protest
											16/11/2019
										
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											Day School:  Fighting Back – Wales and Public Protest

								16/11/2019

								 at Museum of Cardiff The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1BH
								
								Programme 10.30am             Welcome and Introductions 10.40am             Rhian E. Jones  Popular Protest and Popular Culture: the Rebecca Riots and the… Click to read more...			
																
											‘Fields of Praise’: Sport and National Identity
											14/09/2019
										
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											‘Fields of Praise’: Sport and National Identity

								14/09/2019

								 at Castle Hotel, The Parade, Neath SA11 1RB
								
								Programme 10am                     Welcome and Introductions 10.20am               Martin Johnes  Race, Racism and Eddie Parris: Wales’ First Black International Footballer. 11.20am               Carolyn Hitt  Welsh Sport… Click to read more...			
																
											Llafur session at the Oral History Society Annual Conference, Swansea University, 6 July 2019
											06/07/2019
										
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											Llafur session at the Oral History Society Annual Conference, Swansea University, 6 July 2019

								06/07/2019

								 at Talieson Create, Swansea University
								
								2019 Annual Conference of the Oral History Society in association with Llafur and Britain at Work, hosted and supported by Swansea University Venue: Swansea… Click to read more...			
																
											Day School: Hopes and Dreams of 1918: Society Transformed
											08/12/2018
										
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											Day School: Hopes and Dreams of 1918: Society Transformed

								08/12/2018

								 at Llanhilleth Miners' Institute, Llanhilleth, NP13 2JT
								
								Hopes and Dreams of 1918: Society Transformed Programme 10.00 Welcome and Introductions 10.20 Morgan Jones: From Conscientious Objector to MP Wayne David MP 11.05… Click to read more...			
																
											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...