Online Video Recordings

Keep an eye on our YouTube channel to view recordings of our events.

Event Recordings
Llafur Online Event – ‘To strive for a world of justice’ – Community, Internationalism, and the Campaign for Peace in Interwar Wales video_library
Llafur Online Event – ‘To strive for a world of justice’ – Community, Internationalism, and the Campaign for Peace in Interwar Wales

‘To strive for a world of justice’ – Community, Internationalism, and the Campaign for Peace in Interwar Wales In the aftermath of the First World War, Welsh communities took concerted…

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Llafur Online Event – Book launch – Swansea Copper: A Global History video_library
Llafur Online Event – Book launch – Swansea Copper: A Global History

During the eighteenth century, a revolutionary new ‘Welsh process’ of efficiently smelting copper led to Swansea becoming the epicentre of the global copper industry. Indeed, between the 1770s and the…

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Llafur AGM 2020 – ‘Breaking out from the Cocoon’ – Commemorating 50 Years of Llafur, Past, Present and Future video_library
Llafur AGM 2020 – ‘Breaking out from the Cocoon’ – Commemorating 50 Years of Llafur, Past, Present and Future

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 act for the purpose of uncovering…

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Llafur AGM 2021 & Ieuan Gwynedd Jones Essay Prize 2021 video_library
Llafur AGM 2021 & Ieuan Gwynedd Jones Essay Prize 2021

Reflecting on his early life in Tredegar in In Place of Fear (1952), Aneurin Bevan summarised his experience of the lockout of 1926 as ‘like watching a film unfold that…

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Llafur Online Event – ‘The glorious harbinger of a new society’ – The Paris Commune and its Legacy video_library
Llafur Online Event – ‘The glorious harbinger of a new society’ – The Paris Commune and its Legacy

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 fatal collapse on 28th May. Emanating…

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Llafur and Co-ops & Mutuals Wales Event – Robert Owen’s Legacy, Welsh Co-operative Movement History and Co-operative Learning video_library
Llafur and Co-ops & Mutuals Wales Event – Robert Owen’s Legacy, Welsh Co-operative Movement History and Co-operative Learning

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 can we learn from around the…

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Llafur Spring Series 2021 - Migration and Wales: Part 1 – ‘Communities and People’
Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 1 – New Perspectives on Global Wales video_library
Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 1 – New Perspectives on Global Wales

Llafur kicks off the Spring Series with an exploration of Welsh settler communities and how these patterns of emigration fit into a broader discussion about empire and colonisation. Join us…

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Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 2: Revisiting Tiger Bay video_library
Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 2: Revisiting Tiger Bay

From Africa to Asia, the Middle East to the Caribbean, the rich tapestry of migration into ‘Tiger Bay’ and the subsequent experiences of the people and families who settled in…

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Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 3: Heritage and Memory – Exploring Jewish Wales video_library
Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 3: Heritage and Memory – Exploring Jewish Wales

Jews and Judaism have been components of Welsh life since the mid-eighteenth century. By extension, the story of the Welsh-Jewish diaspora is both a tale of geographically diverse communities and…

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Llafur Spring Series 2021 - Migration and Wales: Part 2 – ‘Global Connections and Transnational Exchange’
Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 4: The Congo Institute and its Students video_library
Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 4: The Congo Institute and its Students

Established in 1890 by the returning missionary and pastor, Rev. William Hughes, the Congo Institute in Colwyn Bay was designed to provide students from different regions of Africa with an…

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Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 5: Religion and Liberty? video_library
Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 5: Religion and Liberty?

The association between religious orthodoxy and liberty of thought has often been a controversial one. In a global context, religious missionaries and communities such as the Jesuits and Quakers, both…

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Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 6: ‘If there is no struggle there is no progress’: the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement and Wales video_library
Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 6: ‘If there is no struggle there is no progress’: the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement and Wales

From the lecturing tours of Moses Roper and Frederick Douglass in the 1840s, to Jessie Donaldson’s migration from Swansea in 1854 to help set up a safe house on the…

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Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 7: Untangling Empire and Identity video_library
Llafur Spring Series 2021 – Episode 7: Untangling Empire and Identity

Through intimate voyages of personal and transnational discovery, and the re-examination of lived experiences and family memories, a body of writing and filmmaking has begun to develop which untangles our…

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Llafur Spring Series 2022 - Heritage, Landscape and Tourism
Llafur Spring Series 2022 – Episode 1: Curious Travellers: Then and Now video_library
Llafur Spring Series 2022 – Episode 1: Curious Travellers: Then and Now

Llafur begins its online Spring Series of 2022 with an exploration of how Welsh communities have been visited by people from across the country, and further afield, since the eighteenth century.…

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Llafur Spring Series 2022 – Episode 2: Workers Holidays and Seaside Resorts video_library
Llafur Spring Series 2022 – Episode 2: Workers Holidays and Seaside Resorts

From Llandudno and Rhyl in the north, to Barry and Porthcawl in the south, Wales has produced a tradition of seaside resorts.  Often significant urban meeting places and ‘nodes of…

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Llafur Spring Series 2022 – Episode 3: Reinventing Ourselves: A Conversation on Heritage video_library
Llafur Spring Series 2022 – Episode 3: Reinventing Ourselves: A Conversation on Heritage

Museums, archives, libraries and other heritage sites in Wales are places of historical discovery. They also face increasing challenges to negotiate a national landscape marked by long-term socio-economic, cultural and…

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Llafur Summer Series 2020 - Race, Racism and Memorialisation
Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 1: Memorialisation and Welsh History video_library
Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 1: Memorialisation and Welsh History

Darren Macey, Chris Hill, Neil Evans, Hywel Francis and Carolyn Hitt reflect on controversial histories of ‘race’ and empire in Welsh memorials and monuments, inspired by the fall of Edward…

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Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 2: STOP THE SPRINGBOKS! – Wales and Opposition to Apartheid video_library
Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 2: STOP THE SPRINGBOKS! – Wales and Opposition to Apartheid

Fifty years ago, an all-white rugby union team from South Africa toured Wales. Opposition to that tour was an expression of the already on-going fight against apartheid. Join Morwenna Osmond,…

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Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 3: Slavery and Wales video_library
Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 3: Slavery and Wales

Llafur’s online event series continues with a discussion on slavery and its connections to Wales. Join Chris Evans, Marian Gwyn and Audrey West to reflect on this complex, nuanced relationship…

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Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 4: Crossing the Colour Line: Empire, War and Racial Violence (1900-1925) video_library
Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 4: Crossing the Colour Line: Empire, War and Racial Violence (1900-1925)

Llafur’s online event series continues with a talk from Neil Evans. This talk focuses on the Cardiff race riots of 1919 but tries to set them in the context of…

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Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 5: Q&A – Slavery and Wales video_library
Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 5: Q&A – Slavery and Wales

Join us for an extended question and answer session on Wales’ connections to slavery. Welcoming back guest speakers Chris Evans, Marian Gwyn and Audrey West, we return to your questions…

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Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 6: ‘The Proud Valley’ – Paul Robeson and Wales video_library
Llafur Summer Series 2020 – Episode 6: ‘The Proud Valley’ – Paul Robeson and Wales

In the final chapter of Llafur’s summer series, we conclude with a discussion on the life of Paul Robeson and his connections to Wales. 80 years after the release of…

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