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Day School: Fighting Back – Wales and Public Protest
16/11/2019
Events
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…
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‘Fields of Praise’: Sport and National Identity
14/09/2019
Events
‘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…
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Llafur session at the Oral History Society Annual Conference, Swansea University, 6 July 2019
06/07/2019
Events
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…
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Day School: Hopes and Dreams of 1918: Society Transformed
08/12/2018
Events
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…
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Day School: Our Proudest Achievement? Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the NHS
07/07/2018
Events
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…
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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…
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DACE/SWML Seminar Series
09/02/2018
Events
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…
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Day School: Migration Matters – Wales and the World
17/03/2018
Events
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…
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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
Events
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…
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Day School: Dramatists and Drama in Twentieth-Century Industrial South Wales
14/10/2017
Events
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…
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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…
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Day School: Deindustrialisation and Wales
16/09/2017
Events
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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George Ewart Evans Plaque Unveiling
01/04/2017
Events
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…
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Terry Thomas Memorial
20/01/2017
Events
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,…
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Prof. Duncan Tanner Annual Memorial Seminar
23/02/2017
Events
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…
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Day School: The Anti-War Movement in Wales
10/12/2016
Events
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Cost of Coal: 100 Years On From Senghenydd
03/10/2013
Events
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…
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