How to order

For delivery in the UK, please fill in the order form and send a sterling cheque for the full amount, made payable to Llafur, to our correspondance address:

Llafur c/o South Wales Miners’ Library,
Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP

Overseas purchasers should contact the Llafur Secretary at for information about postal charges to their country

Delivery time: Orders will normally be despatched within one week, but please do contact us if your order is urgent

The following books and back issues of Llafur are available to purchase –

Books
Journals
Volume 1 – Number 1 – 1972
Volume 1 – Number 1 – 1972

Chairman's Address, The Swansea Project, Sources for Welsh Labour History No. 1: The National Library of Wales - Part 1, Merthyr 1931: Lord Melbourne and the Trade Unions, Currently Unavailable
Volume 1 – Number 2 – 1973
Volume 1 – Number 2 – 1973

Abel Morgan, 1878-1972, Survey of Miners' Institutes and Welfare Hall Libraries, The Anthracite Strike and the Disturbances of 1925, 'What does History know of Nailbiting?', The Welsh Working Class, The Road to Tonypandy, Currently Unavailable
Volume 1 – Number 3 – 1974
Volume 1 – Number 3 – 1974

Current Research into Welsh Labour History, Michael Foot on Aneurin Bevan, Dai Dan Evans 1898-1974 - A Tribute, Labour Symposium at Gregynnog (report), Patriots and Pacifists in Wales, 1914-18. The case of Capt. Lionel Lindsey &… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 1 – Number 4 – 1975
Volume 1 – Number 4 – 1975

Current Research into Welsh Labour History, The Swansea conference of the British Council of Soldiers' and Workers Delegates, July 1917, Philosophy and Geology in Conflict: The Evolution of Wages Structure in the South Wales Coalfield, 1926-74,… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 2 – Number 1 – 1976
Volume 2 – Number 1 – 1976

News from the South Wales Miners' Library, The Second Rebecca Riots: A Study of Poaching on the River Wye, Merthyr Tydfil: The Politics of Survival, Some Working Class Attitudes towards organised religion in Nineteenth Century Wales,… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 2 – Number 2 – 1977
Volume 2 – Number 2 – 1977

1926 in Aberdare, 1926 Remembered and Revealed (symposium), News from the South Wales Miners' Library, Report on Llafur/NUM Weekend School, 1926 Remembered (symposium), 1926 Remembered (symposium), 1926 in Aberdare (interview), 1926 Remembered (symposium), Life on Circular… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 2 – Number 3 – 1978
Volume 2 – Number 3 – 1978

News from the South Wales Miners' Library, 'The Slaves of the Lamp' - The Aberdare Miners' Strike, 1910, The Cardiff Coal Trimmers' Union, 1888-1914, The Making of A. J. Cook, The Unofficial Reform Committee and the… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 2 – Number 4 – 1979
Volume 2 – Number 4 – 1979

News from the South Wales Miners' Library, A Bibliography of the Coal Industry in Wales, The Merthyr Pioneer, 1911-22, My Recollections at Point of Ayr Colliery from 1887-1890, The 'Conquering of China', Crime in an Industrial… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 3 – Number 1 – 1980
Volume 3 – Number 1 – 1980

News from the South Wales Miners' Library, The South Wales Race Riots of 1919, The South Wales Coalfield Research Project, Sidelights on Religion and Politics in the Rhondda Valley 1906-26, In Search of the Celestial Empire.… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 3 – Number 2 – 1981
Volume 3 – Number 2 – 1981

Towards a Welsh Women's History, The Apprentice Boys' Strikes of the Second World War, Miners' Medical Services before the First World War: The South Wales Coalfield, Report on the Contributions to the Discussion 'Llafur in the… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 3 – Number 3 – 1982
Volume 3 – Number 3 – 1982

News from the South Wales Miners' Library, The Mold Riots of 1869, Labour's Lost Legacy: In Search of the Party's Past, Conditions of employment amongst the farm labour force in Nineteenth Century Wales, The Politics of… Click to see more £5
Volume 3 – Number 4 – 1983
Volume 3 – Number 4 – 1983

News from the South Wales Miners' Library, Early Labour Battles in Ogmore, The Labour Party and the "exclusion" of the Communists, "In a Broken Dream": Some aspects of sexual behaviour and the dilemmas of the unmarried… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 4 – Number 1 – 1984
Volume 4 – Number 1 – 1984

Swansea and District's Labour Press, 1888-1914, A Miner Struggle? Women's Protests in Welsh Mining History, Self-Help in Nineteenth Century Wales: the rise and fall of the Female Friendly Society, The Swansea Valley: life and labour in… Click to see more £5
Volume 4 – Number 2 – 1985
Volume 4 – Number 2 – 1985

News from the South Wales Miners' Library, Inside the 'House of the Mad'. The social context of mental illness, suicide and the pressure of rural life in south west Wales c.1860-1920, Cardiff's Labour Traditions, Tribute to… Click to see more £5
Volume 4 – Number 3 – 1986
Volume 4 – Number 3 – 1986

Report of the South Wales Miners' Library, Sam Mainwaring and the Autonomist Tradition, Noah Ablett 1883-1935, From the Valleys I Came, New Light on the New Unionism in Wales, Protagonist of Labour, Mark Starr, 1894-1985, Keir… Click to see more £5
Volume 4 – Number 4 – 1987
Volume 4 – Number 4 – 1987

Report of the South Wales Miner's Library, Wales in the Nineteen Sixties, Agweddau ar y Gwrthwynebaid I'r Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf yng Nghymru (Aspects of the opposition to the first world war in Wales), Tonypandy and Llanelli… Click to see more £5
Volume 5 – Number 1 – 1988
Volume 5 – Number 1 – 1988

Report from the South Wales Miners' Library, The Welsh Worker in the Fourteenth Century: An introduction to labour prehistory, Mudiad y Di-waith Dyffryn Nantlle, 1956-1960, The Virtuosi of Merthyr, To-day We Live: The Making of a… Click to see more £5
Volume 5 – Number 2 – 1989
Volume 5 – Number 2 – 1989

News from the South Wales Miners' Library, Of Machines and Men in the 1920's, The Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act 1889 and the Education of Girls: Gender Stereotyping or Curricular Assimilation?, 'No Surrender in the… Click to see more £5
Volume 5 – Number 3 -1990
Volume 5 – Number 3 -1990

Currently Unavailable
Volume 5 – Number 4 – 1991
Volume 5 – Number 4 – 1991

Currently Unavailable
Volume 6 – Number 1 – 1992
Volume 6 – Number 1 – 1992

History, heritage and commemoration: Newport, 1839-1989, From Bar-stool to Choir-Stall: Music and Morality in Late Victorian Merthyr, OM Edwards, Culture and the Industrial Classes, The 1926 General Strike in Cardiff, Work and Worship: Mining and Religion… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 6 – Number 2 – 1993
Volume 6 – Number 2 – 1993

Spiritual Emblems: Visions of the 1904-5 Welsh Revival, Eugene Buckley and the Diagnosis of Insanity in the Early Victorian Prison, The Welsh Diaspora, 'Trade Union Traditions', the Oxford Welsh and the 1934 Pressed Steel Strike, Cyflog… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 6 – Number 3 – 1994
Volume 6 – Number 3 – 1994

Currently Unavailable
Volume 6 – Number 4 – 1995
Volume 6 – Number 4 – 1995

Currently Unavailable
Volume 7 – Number 1 – 1996
Volume 7 – Number 1 – 1996

Currently Unavailable
Volume 7 – Number 2 – 1997
Volume 7 – Number 2 – 1997

Currently Unavailable
Volume 7 – Number 3/4 – 1999
Volume 7 – Number 3/4 – 1999

Currently Unavailable
Volume 8 – Number 1 – 2000
Volume 8 – Number 1 – 2000

'People's Remembrancers' in a post-modern age: contemplating the non-crisis of Welsh labour history, Manufacturing the Past - The Representation of Mining Communities in History, Literature and Heritage: '...Fantasies of a world that never was'?, Wales and… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 8 – Number 2 – 2001
Volume 8 – Number 2 – 2001

Working-class culture and the labour movement in the South Wales and Ruhr coalfields, 1850-2000: a comparison, Cymry 'gwlad yr aur': ymfudwyr cymreig yn Ballarat, Awstralia, yn ail hanner y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, Criminals or Scapegoats?… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 8 – Number 3 – 2002
Volume 8 – Number 3 – 2002

'Drunk and riotous in Pontypridd': women, the police courts and the press in South Wales Coalfield society, 1899-1914, Swimming against the tide: gender, learning and advancement in South Wales, 1900-1939, 'A status too onerous to bear':… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 8 – Number 4 – 2003
Volume 8 – Number 4 – 2003

Currently Unavailable
Volume 9 – Number 1 -2004
Volume 9 – Number 1 -2004

Laurence John Williams, 'LJ', 1927-2004, Tribute from a Friend and Colleague, A Family Tribute, John Williams and Llafur, Wales in British Politics: Forty Years On, Intellectual Property, First Time Round: The Re-Invention of the South Wales… Click to see more Currently Unavailable
Volume 9 – Number 2 – 2005
Volume 9 – Number 2 – 2005

£5
Volume 9 – Number 3 – 2006
Volume 9 – Number 3 – 2006

£5
Volume 9 – Number 4 – 2007
Volume 9 – Number 4 – 2007

£5
Volume 10 – Number 1 – 2008
Volume 10 – Number 1 – 2008

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter: Industrial Relations in Cardiff City Mental Hospital before the First World War, Desmond Donnelly and the United Democratic Party, 1968-70, A 'Splendid Field'? Emma Goldman in South Wales, 1925, Identifying… Click to see more £5
Volume 10 – Number 2 – 2009
Volume 10 – Number 2 – 2009

£5
Volume 10 – Number 3 – 2010
Volume 10 – Number 3 – 2010

£5
Volume 10 – Number 4 – 2011
Volume 10 – Number 4 – 2011

£5
Volume 11 – Number 1 – 2012
Volume 11 – Number 1 – 2012

£5
Volume 11 – Number 2 – 2013
Volume 11 – Number 2 – 2013

£5
Volume 11 – Number 3 – 2014
Volume 11 – Number 3 – 2014

£5
Volume 11 – Number 4 – 2015
Volume 11 – Number 4 – 2015

"We Would Rather Starve Idle Than Starve While Working Hard": The Swansea Copperworkers' Strike of 1843, From Suffrage to Citizenship: The Cardiff and District Women's Citizens' Association in Comparative Perspective, 1921-1939, The Cold War Home Front,… Click to see more £5
Volume 12 – Number 1 – 2016
Volume 12 – Number 1 – 2016

When the party was over: Welsh and Italian leadminers in dispute, Cardiganshire, 1900-1901, Gwrthwynebu'r Rhyfel Mawr ym Mhontardawe, The Union Jack, the Red Flag and the Welsh Dragon: the dilemmas of Goronwy Roberts and James Griffiths,… Click to see more £15