Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society
@llafur.bsky.social
Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society organises free regular history events and has an annual journal for members.
To join please visit our website: www.llafur.org
To join please visit our website: www.llafur.org
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Join Llafur, in collaboration with the Cyfarthfa Foundation, to explore the rich history of Merthyr and the next steps in the story of its heritage.
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
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Online course - starting soon!
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
War memorials, plaques, placenames, controversial statues, graffiti & more.
All welcome!
Free for @aberuni.bsky.social students & staff.
@interpolaber.bsky.social @pssatweets.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
War memorials, plaques, placenames, controversial statues, graffiti & more.
All welcome!
Free for @aberuni.bsky.social students & staff.
@interpolaber.bsky.social @pssatweets.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Online course - starting soon!
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
War memorials, plaques, placenames, controversial statues, graffiti & more.
All welcome!
Free for @aberuni.bsky.social students & staff.
@interpolaber.bsky.social @pssatweets.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
War memorials, plaques, placenames, controversial statues, graffiti & more.
All welcome!
Free for @aberuni.bsky.social students & staff.
@interpolaber.bsky.social @pssatweets.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social
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Micaela Panes is researching Labour women’s activism in south Wales and south-west England for her PhD thesis. We were delighted to help her visit a range of archives with one of our research bursaries. Read more on our website.
@dwi-micaela.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/13/m...
@dwi-micaela.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/13/m...
Micaela Panes (Cardiff) on Labour women’s political activism in south Wales and south-west England, c.1920s-1969.
My thesis explores the experiences of socialist women throughout south Wales and south-west England across a period of rapid political, social, and economic change (c.1920s-1969). Local histories o…
sslh.org.uk
January 13, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Micaela Panes is researching Labour women’s activism in south Wales and south-west England for her PhD thesis. We were delighted to help her visit a range of archives with one of our research bursaries. Read more on our website.
@dwi-micaela.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/13/m...
@dwi-micaela.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2026/01/13/m...
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This week we’re sharing some of the new material received by the Archives during 2025.
This is Flying Officer William Austin Harvey. His papers arrived at Glamorgan Archives in September. He was born in Gilfach, Bargoed, in 1922. He served with the RAF during the Second World War.
This is Flying Officer William Austin Harvey. His papers arrived at Glamorgan Archives in September. He was born in Gilfach, Bargoed, in 1922. He served with the RAF during the Second World War.
January 13, 2026 at 1:23 PM
This week we’re sharing some of the new material received by the Archives during 2025.
This is Flying Officer William Austin Harvey. His papers arrived at Glamorgan Archives in September. He was born in Gilfach, Bargoed, in 1922. He served with the RAF during the Second World War.
This is Flying Officer William Austin Harvey. His papers arrived at Glamorgan Archives in September. He was born in Gilfach, Bargoed, in 1922. He served with the RAF during the Second World War.
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Gavin McCann visited @swminerslibrary.bsky.social to research his book on libraries, trade unions and education with the help of an SSLH bursary. Read his report and find out more about our research bursaries here 👇
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...
Gavin McCann on the libraries of the South Wales miners
Gavin McCann is researching a book on libraries, trade unions and education. Here he writes about his visit to the South Wales Miners’ Library in search of a lost culture of socialist educati…
sslh.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Gavin McCann visited @swminerslibrary.bsky.social to research his book on libraries, trade unions and education with the help of an SSLH bursary. Read his report and find out more about our research bursaries here 👇
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...
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A very interesting day at Theatr Soar for 'History and Heritage in Merthyr' with @llafur.bsky.social and the Cyfarthfa Foundation 📚
Wonderful to learn so much about the town my family call home 🏠
#Wales #History
Wonderful to learn so much about the town my family call home 🏠
#Wales #History
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A very interesting day at Theatr Soar for 'History and Heritage in Merthyr' with @llafur.bsky.social and the Cyfarthfa Foundation 📚
Wonderful to learn so much about the town my family call home 🏠
#Wales #History
Wonderful to learn so much about the town my family call home 🏠
#Wales #History
The ‘History and Heritage in Merthyr’ conference has begun!
We’ll be keeping you updated with today’s programme ⬇️⬇️⬇️
We’ll be keeping you updated with today’s programme ⬇️⬇️⬇️
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The ‘History and Heritage in Merthyr’ conference has begun!
We’ll be keeping you updated with today’s programme ⬇️⬇️⬇️
We’ll be keeping you updated with today’s programme ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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We supported Harry Griffiths with a research bursary. His report is on our website 👇
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/27/h...
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/27/h...
Harry Griffiths (Bangor) on anti-fascism in South Wales and the North West of England
My PhD research examines the development of anti-fascist activism within industrial communities in twentieth-century Britain. It explores localised anti-fascist movements and how factors such as cl…
sslh.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We supported Harry Griffiths with a research bursary. His report is on our website 👇
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/27/h...
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/27/h...
Tomorrow! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Tomorrow! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Join Llafur, in collaboration with the Cyfarthfa Foundation, to explore the rich history of Merthyr and the next steps in the story of its heritage.
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Join Llafur, in collaboration with the Cyfarthfa Foundation, to explore the rich history of Merthyr and the next steps in the story of its heritage.
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
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Thank you to everyone involved in the @llafur.bsky.social event on the 1925 strike in Ammanford yesterday. To Aled, Robert, Ioan and Sian for their brilliant talks, and to all who were able to attend and join in discussions.
Interested in learning more about what we do? Visit the Llafur website.
Interested in learning more about what we do? Visit the Llafur website.
Llafur.org | Welcome to Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society.
Llafur brings together people with an interest in Welsh people’s history. We organise events looking at aspects of our history & publish the journal Llafur.
www.llafur.org
October 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Thank you to everyone involved in the @llafur.bsky.social event on the 1925 strike in Ammanford yesterday. To Aled, Robert, Ioan and Sian for their brilliant talks, and to all who were able to attend and join in discussions.
Interested in learning more about what we do? Visit the Llafur website.
Interested in learning more about what we do? Visit the Llafur website.
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join us tomorrow to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Join us tomorrow to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Join Llafur and our guest speakers to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy a hundred years on!
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join us tomorrow to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Join us tomorrow to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Reminder that we'll be in Ammanford tomorrow to talk all about the 1925 anthracite strike. Come and join us @llafur.bsky.social and our brilliant speakers.
Join Llafur and our guest speakers to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy a hundred years on!
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Reminder that we'll be in Ammanford tomorrow to talk all about the 1925 anthracite strike. Come and join us @llafur.bsky.social and our brilliant speakers.
Join Aled Eirug in discussion with Adrain Master discussing his book Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder
📆 30th October 2025
🕣 6.30pm
📍Storyville Books, Pontypridd
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/Storyville-B...
📆 30th October 2025
🕣 6.30pm
📍Storyville Books, Pontypridd
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/Storyville-B...
October 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Join Aled Eirug in discussion with Adrain Master discussing his book Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder
📆 30th October 2025
🕣 6.30pm
📍Storyville Books, Pontypridd
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/Storyville-B...
📆 30th October 2025
🕣 6.30pm
📍Storyville Books, Pontypridd
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/Storyville-B...
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Huge thanks to Sandie Hicks for sharing her amazing images of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp with us. Aren't they splendid?
Find more incredible images here in our visual archive ➡️ buff.ly/CqTzlAb
#GreenhamCommonWomensPeaceCamp #Activism #Peace #Protest #Feminism #AntiWar #AntiNuclear
Find more incredible images here in our visual archive ➡️ buff.ly/CqTzlAb
#GreenhamCommonWomensPeaceCamp #Activism #Peace #Protest #Feminism #AntiWar #AntiNuclear
October 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Huge thanks to Sandie Hicks for sharing her amazing images of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp with us. Aren't they splendid?
Find more incredible images here in our visual archive ➡️ buff.ly/CqTzlAb
#GreenhamCommonWomensPeaceCamp #Activism #Peace #Protest #Feminism #AntiWar #AntiNuclear
Find more incredible images here in our visual archive ➡️ buff.ly/CqTzlAb
#GreenhamCommonWomensPeaceCamp #Activism #Peace #Protest #Feminism #AntiWar #AntiNuclear
The Welfare Ystradgynlais have a great line up of coalfield events this month! Check out what's on 👇👇👇
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Welfare Ystradgynlais have a great line up of coalfield events this month! Check out what's on 👇👇👇
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Time is running out to sign up for this! A great gateway to studying local history, heritage policy & full of case studies and real world issues from Wales & beyond.
#Heritage #History #WelshHistory #Memorials @aberuni.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social @interpolaber.bsky.social
#Heritage #History #WelshHistory #Memorials @aberuni.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social @interpolaber.bsky.social
New opportunity to join this popular lifelong learning course @aberuni.bsky.social open to all.
- Pre-recorded lectures (learn in your own time)
- Lively seminar discussions
- Heaps of reading suggestions & research resources - focus on what interests you
- Real world skills & issues
+ much more!
- Pre-recorded lectures (learn in your own time)
- Lively seminar discussions
- Heaps of reading suggestions & research resources - focus on what interests you
- Real world skills & issues
+ much more!
October 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Time is running out to sign up for this! A great gateway to studying local history, heritage policy & full of case studies and real world issues from Wales & beyond.
#Heritage #History #WelshHistory #Memorials @aberuni.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social @interpolaber.bsky.social
#Heritage #History #WelshHistory #Memorials @aberuni.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social @interpolaber.bsky.social
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A wonderful evening in Portmeirion last Thursday to celebrate Aled Eirug's new biography of Dafydd Elis-Thomas.
Diolch to everyone who attended, to Aled, Elliw Gwawr, Mabon ap Gwynfor, Gwyneth Glyn and Twm Morys for their contributions, and to Portmeirion for such a memorable evening.
Diolch to everyone who attended, to Aled, Elliw Gwawr, Mabon ap Gwynfor, Gwyneth Glyn and Twm Morys for their contributions, and to Portmeirion for such a memorable evening.
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A wonderful evening in Portmeirion last Thursday to celebrate Aled Eirug's new biography of Dafydd Elis-Thomas.
Diolch to everyone who attended, to Aled, Elliw Gwawr, Mabon ap Gwynfor, Gwyneth Glyn and Twm Morys for their contributions, and to Portmeirion for such a memorable evening.
Diolch to everyone who attended, to Aled, Elliw Gwawr, Mabon ap Gwynfor, Gwyneth Glyn and Twm Morys for their contributions, and to Portmeirion for such a memorable evening.
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It's almost time for us to kick off conference, and we'll be opening proceedings with the exclusive premiere of our newly commissioned video tour of St Fagans 📽️
At 3.00pm all delegates will have the chance to join us for the first screening followed by a live Q&A 👇
#Museums2025
At 3.00pm all delegates will have the chance to join us for the first screening followed by a live Q&A 👇
#Museums2025
Join us online for a live event to kick off Conference 2025 - Museums Association
Live event | St Fagans online tour and Q&A Monday 6 October1500-1535 Join us online for this special live event …
www.museumsassociation.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It's almost time for us to kick off conference, and we'll be opening proceedings with the exclusive premiere of our newly commissioned video tour of St Fagans 📽️
At 3.00pm all delegates will have the chance to join us for the first screening followed by a live Q&A 👇
#Museums2025
At 3.00pm all delegates will have the chance to join us for the first screening followed by a live Q&A 👇
#Museums2025
Are you of African/Caribbean descent with ties to the Valleys? The Black Valleys Project would love to hear your story!
Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools.
🗓️Friday 24th October
🕰️2pm
📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum
Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools.
🗓️Friday 24th October
🕰️2pm
📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Are you of African/Caribbean descent with ties to the Valleys? The Black Valleys Project would love to hear your story!
Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools.
🗓️Friday 24th October
🕰️2pm
📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum
Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools.
🗓️Friday 24th October
🕰️2pm
📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum
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'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder' is available now in bookshops and through the link below!
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...
You can also join Aled in conversation at events throughout the autumn.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...
You can also join Aled in conversation at events throughout the autumn.
September 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder' is available now in bookshops and through the link below!
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...
You can also join Aled in conversation at events throughout the autumn.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...
You can also join Aled in conversation at events throughout the autumn.
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We had a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of 'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder' by Aled Eirug on Tuesday!
Diolch yn fawr to all who attended and especially to Aled, Felicity Evans, Richard Wyn Jones, Mark Drakeford and Elin Jones for their wonderful contributions.
📹 Tane Rogers-Eirug
Diolch yn fawr to all who attended and especially to Aled, Felicity Evans, Richard Wyn Jones, Mark Drakeford and Elin Jones for their wonderful contributions.
📹 Tane Rogers-Eirug
September 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We had a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of 'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder' by Aled Eirug on Tuesday!
Diolch yn fawr to all who attended and especially to Aled, Felicity Evans, Richard Wyn Jones, Mark Drakeford and Elin Jones for their wonderful contributions.
📹 Tane Rogers-Eirug
Diolch yn fawr to all who attended and especially to Aled, Felicity Evans, Richard Wyn Jones, Mark Drakeford and Elin Jones for their wonderful contributions.
📹 Tane Rogers-Eirug
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Publishing today! 📚
Dafydd Elis-Thomas was one of the most outstanding Welsh public figures of the last fifty years.
In this new biography, Aled Eirug explores the political life of the controversial politician who changed the face of Wales.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...
Dafydd Elis-Thomas was one of the most outstanding Welsh public figures of the last fifty years.
In this new biography, Aled Eirug explores the political life of the controversial politician who changed the face of Wales.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...
September 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Publishing today! 📚
Dafydd Elis-Thomas was one of the most outstanding Welsh public figures of the last fifty years.
In this new biography, Aled Eirug explores the political life of the controversial politician who changed the face of Wales.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...
Dafydd Elis-Thomas was one of the most outstanding Welsh public figures of the last fifty years.
In this new biography, Aled Eirug explores the political life of the controversial politician who changed the face of Wales.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...
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More than mere prelude to '26, join us in Ammanford to discuss what the great Hywel Francis once described as 'a landmark of immeasurable significance in the development of a sophisticated trade union consciousness among the whole of the South Wales Miners' (Llafur 1:2, 1973).
Join Llafur and our guest speakers to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy a hundred years on!
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
October 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
More than mere prelude to '26, join us in Ammanford to discuss what the great Hywel Francis once described as 'a landmark of immeasurable significance in the development of a sophisticated trade union consciousness among the whole of the South Wales Miners' (Llafur 1:2, 1973).
Join Llafur and our guest speakers to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy a hundred years on!
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Join Llafur and our guest speakers to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy a hundred years on!
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...