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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 7d

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...

The Anthracite Strike of 1925
Event Location:
Ammanford Welfare Hall, 11 Wind St, Ammanford SA18 3DN

Event Date: 25/10/2025
Event Starts: 25/10/25 10:30 am
Event Ends: 25/10/25 04:00 pm

Join Llafur and our guest speakers to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy a hundred years on.

Speakers – Aled Eirug, Robert Smith, Ioan Matthews, Bill Jones and Sian Williams.

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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 6d

I’ll be hosting this online talk on British Grimoires and folklore on Saturday 18 October, via Zoom at 7:30pm

All profits support @folklorelibrary.bsky.social

Book now at bit.ly/flaevents

Our next online talk is now booking.

On Saturday 18th October, we will be hosting a talk via Zoom on the subject of British Grimoires and their significance to folklore.

Tickets are £5 (plus booking fee) via our EventBrite page and include a Q&A with the presenter, Daniel Harms, and access to a recording of the talk afterwards.

All profits support our charitable work. To book, please visit

bit.ly/flaevents

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Our next online talk

FAIRIES, WITCH BOTTLES AND AZAZEL: British Grimoires and their Significance to the Study of Folklore

Saturday 18 October, 7:30pm
£5 plus booking fee

bit.ly/flaevents

All profits support our charity.

Ticket includes talk, Q&A and recording of the event

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Crowd Cymru @crowdcymru.bsky.social · 6d

Look at the still vibrant colours on this 45-year-old page! Come and join our volunteers currently transcribing documents like this lovely school scrapbook compiled by Rhydfelen Comprehensive #EYAEducation #TreorchyMaleVoiceChoir @glamarchives.bsky.social

Image shows a purple scrapbook page with two invitations stuck down with Sellotape. The one on the top left is green and the one bottom right is red. Both invitations have exactly the same text [in black]:

Eglwys Martin Sant, Caerfilli
Côr/Meibion - TREORCI - Male Voice Choir
Disgbyblion Ysgol Gyfun – RHYDFELEN – School Pupils
Nos Iau – MAI 22 MAY – Thursday
Mynediad - £1.50 – Entrance

From a 1980 scrapbook which is part of the Rhydfelen Comprehensive School Archive held at Glamorgan Archives.

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Crowd Cymru @crowdcymru.bsky.social · 6d

Edrychwch ar liwiau hyfryd y dudalen hon a grëwyd ers dros 45 mlynedd! Dewch i ymuno â'n gwirfoddolwyr sy'n trawsgrifio dogfennau fel y llyfr lloffion hyfryd hwn a luniwyd gan Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen #EYAAddysg #CôrMeibionTreorci @glamarchives.bsky.social

Llun yn dangos tudalen llyfr lloffion porffor gyda darn o selotep yn dal dau wahoddiad yn eu lle. Mae'r un uchaf ar y chwith yn wyrdd a'r un isaf ar y dde yn goch. Mae gan y ddau wahoddiad yr un testun yn union [yn ddu]:
Eglwys Martin Sant, Caerfilli
Côr/Meibion - TREORCI - Male Voice Choir
Disgbyblion Ysgol Gyfun – RHYDFELEN – School Pupils
Nos Iau – MAI 22 MAY – Thursday
Mynediad - £1.50 – Entrance

O lyfr lloffion 1980 sy'n rhan o Archif Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen a gedwir yn Archifau Morgannwg.

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Crowd Cymru @crowdcymru.bsky.social · 9d

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · 28d

Ragged Schools between the 1840s and 1870s provided an education to the country's poorest children. In this blog post, the Derby Ragged School is explored, including some entries from the school's log in our collection: recordoffice.wordpre...

#EYAEducation

Derby Ragged School

Ragged Schools were an attempt between the 1840s and 1870s to provide free education for children living in extreme poverty, who could not afford to pay for admittance into other schools. The…

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Waltham Forest Archives @lbwfarchives.bsky.social · 23d

Children's reading room at Walthamstow Library, c.1950. 📷 From VHM collection, available in our Searchroom. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @araireland.bsky.social #ExploreYourArchive #EYAEducation

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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 14d

This is a 1913 postcard of London Hospital Nurses Training School. The nurse's message captures the everyday pressures and joys of student life from exams to going dancing. Explore the RCN Digital Archive: https://bit.ly/3pePUx7

#ExploreYourArchive #EYAEducation #HistNursing
@rcnhistory.bsky.social

Photograph of the London Hospital Nurse's Training School, Tredegar House, located in Bow, London. The image features a multi-story brick building with multiple windows.

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Crowd Cymru @crowdcymru.bsky.social · 9d

The play centres on #RichardTrevithick who, in Merthyr, in 1804, first used steam power for industrial purposes when he caused a steam engine to pull a ten-ton load of iron from Penydarren Works to Abercynon, or Navigation as it was then called.

Crowd Cymru @crowdcymru.bsky.social · 9d

Our volunteers are working on scrapbooks compiled by Ysgol Rhydfelen, first Welsh comprehensive school to open in south Wales in 1962.
This is the flyer for a production of a Welsh language musical play, A Big Day in Merthyr, performed by the pupils in 1979 #EYAEducation #neverstoplearning 💞

Image shows a flyer for a musical play, A Big Day in Merthyr, performed by Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen on October 12 and 13, 1979. A red background with a simple black, stylized image of Stevenson’s “Rocket” with the following black text in Welsh:
Diwrnod Mawr ym Merthyr
Cwmni drama
Ysgol Gyfon Rhydfelen
Cerddoriaeth: Ann Hopcyn
HYDREF 12, 13, 1979
Gan Emyr Edwards

This collection is held at Glamorgan Archives

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Crowd Cymru @crowdcymru.bsky.social · 9d

Mae'r ddrama yn canolbwyntio ar #RichardTrevithick a ddefnyddiodd bŵer stêm ym Merthyr, ym 1804, am y tro cyntaf at ddibenion diwydiannol pan achosodd i injan stêm dynnu llwyth deg tunnell o haearn o Waith Penydarren i Abercynon, neu Navigation fel y'i gelwid bryd hynny.

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Crowd Cymru @crowdcymru.bsky.social · 9d

Mae ein gwirfoddolwyr yn gweithio ar ddetholiad o lyfrau lloffion a gasglwyd gan Ysgol Rhydfelen. Dyma'r daflen ar gyfer cynhyrchiad o ddrama gerdd Gymraeg, Diwrnod Mawr ym Merthyr, a berfformiwyd gan ddisgyblion Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen ym 1979 #EYAAddysg #paidstopiodysgu

Mae'r llun yn dangos taflen ar gyfer drama gerdd, Diwrnod Mawr ym Merthyr, a berfformiwyd gan Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen ar y 12fed a’r 13eg o Hydref, 1979. Cefndir coch gyda llun du syml, arddulliedig o "Roced" Stevenson gyda'r testun du canlynol yn Gymraeg:
Diwrnod Mawr ym Merthyr
Cwmni drama
Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen
Cerddoriaeth: Ann Hopcyn
HYDREF 12, 13, 1979
Gan Emyr Edwards

Cedwir y casgliad hwn yn Archifau Morgannwg

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Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives @uoscollections.bsky.social · 10d

🚨The call for papers for the History and Archives in Practice 2026 conference #HAP26 is now live! 🚨

Along with @ihr.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @royalhistsoc.org we invite you to explore 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research' ⬇️

Call for Participation | History and Archives in Practice 2026

Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 15d

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 12d

Free guided tours of The City exhibition, exploring queer, working-class Glasgow through archives and community stories.
Tours: Oct 3 & Nov 7, 1pm.
Book: [email protected]

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Jack Davies @tongwynlais.bsky.social · 10d

The 5th anniversary of my lockdown project is coming up. This view was from a frosty morning back in January 2025.

I've written a post every month so there's loads to explore if you've not visited before.

castellcoch.com

#Cadw #CastellCoch #Tongwynlais

Castell Coch nestled in autumnal trees above a frosty field. Contains the text, "Castell Coch, Est. 2020" and URL, "castellcoch.com".

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Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social · 14d

In 1992, Gwent College, formerly Gwent College of Higher Education, was formed, with its campus in Newport on Nash Road.We have a special section on further and higher education in our collection, so if you are doing a project at college or university, why not explore the history of your school?

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Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social · 14d

Ym 1992, ffurfiwyd Coleg Gwent, Coleg Trydyddol Gwent gynt, gyda'i gampws yng Nghasnewydd ar Ffordd Nash. Mae gennym adran arbennig am addysg bellach ac addysg uwch yn ein casgliad, felly os ydych chi'n gwneud prosiect yn y coleg neu'r brifysgol, beth am archwilio hanes eich ysgol?

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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 14d

Drysau Agored yn Archifau Morgannwg

Ymunwch a ni Dydd Sadwrn yma 10yb-3yp ar gyfer ein digwyddiad Drysau Agored

Mae’r teithiau tu ôl i’r llen yn lawn erbyn hyn. Ond bydd Cymdeithas Hanes Teulu Morgannwg yn cyflwyno dwy sgwrs am ddim – does dim angen cadw lle ar gyfer y sgyrsiau, felly galwch mewn!

Silff o fewn un o ystafelloedd sicr Archifau Morgannwg, yn llawn llyfrau wedi ei osod mewn bocsys archifol llwyd. Ceir cyfeirnodau a chodau bar ar y bocsys ac ar y silffoedd.

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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 14d

Open Doors at Glamorgan Archives

Join us this Saturday, 10am-3pm, for our annual Open Doors event.

The tours behind the scenes are now fully booked. But Glamorgan Family History Society will be giving two free talks – no need to book for the talks, just drop in!

A shelf in one of the strongrooms at Glamorgan Archives, holding volumes packaged in grey archival boxes. The boxes and shelves are labelled with reference codes and bar codes.

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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 14d

Roedd hi’n grêt allu fod yn rhan o Fis Hanes Ogwr heddiw, drwy gyflwyno sgwrs ar gasgliadau glo Archifau Morgannwg ym Mharc Gwledig Bryngarw. Diolch i bawb ddaeth draw.

Delwedd o dri lowr yn dangos ei wynebau o amgylch cornel wal. Mae ganddynt llwch glo ar eu gwynebau ac maent yn gwenu. Yn y cefndir gwelwn cawodydd y baddonau pen pwll.

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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 14d

It was great to be a part of Ogwr History Month today, with a talk at Bryngarw Country Park on our coal collections at Glamorgan Archives. A big thank you to everyone who came along.

An image showing three miners looking out from behind a wall. They are smiling, and their faces are covered in coal dust. In the background are the showers of the pithead baths.

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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 15d

What made London a world-leading city? 📈

Join us for an expert talk by Professor Patrick Wallis exploring the vital role of apprentices in London's history. See the original documents up close!

Limited tickets available.
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/apprentice...

#History #London #Archives

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