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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 3d

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

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James Phillips @jjphillips94.bsky.social · 6d

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).

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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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...

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · Apr 20

Last week the Norwegian Church Arts Centre, the Cardiff Centre for Welsh History and Llafur held a one day conference on ‘The Diverse Religious and Cultural Heritage of Wales’.

Thank you to all those who presented and attended!

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · Mar 26

Until September 2021, there wasn’t a single statue of a real Welsh woman in Wales!
Monumental Welsh Women have worked to change this by commissioning 5 statues of 5 real Welsh women.
You can read more about their work here: monumentalwelshwomen.com

Monumental Welsh Women

Monumental Welsh Women is a not for profit organisation dedicated to recognising the contribution of welsh women (hidden heroines) to the history and life of Wales

monumentalwelshwomen.com

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · Mar 26

Monumental Welsh Women are fundraising for their fifth and final statue which commemorates Elizabeth Andrews and her work which championed social reform and women’s rights (to keep it brief!).

They have £25,000 left to raise, if able, please donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/the-statue...

Donate to The Statue for Elizabeth Andrews Group, Hirwaun., organized by Helen Molyneux

The Statue for Elizabeth Andrews Group in Hirwaun is working with Monu… Helen Molyneux needs your support for The Statue for Elizabeth Andrews Group, Hirwaun.

www.gofundme.com

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · Mar 24

Join the Norwegian Church Arts Centre, the Cardiff Centre for Welsh History and Llafur for a one-day conference on The Diverse Religious and Cultural Heritage of Wales!

🗓️ Wednesday 9th April, 9am
📍Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff

🎟️ Reserve your free ticket: fixr.co/event/the-di...

WORKSHOP: The Diverse Religious and Cultural Heritage of Wales tickets on Wednesday, 9 Apr | Norwegian Church Arts Centre | FIXR

Buy tickets to WORKSHOP: The Diverse Religious and Cultural Heritage of Wales on Wednesday, 9 Apr at Norwegian Church Arts Centre | FIXR

fixr.co

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · Feb 26

Next Sunday, Terry Dimmick presents a series of films and a discussion on Wales and the 1984/5 miners’ strike!

👉 Strike! Wales in the Miners’ Strike + Discussion
📆 Sunday 2nd March, 2.30pm
📍 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

Tickets: www.chapter.org/whats-on/str...

Chapter | Strike! Wales in the Miners’ Strike (adv 12a) + discussion

A series of films produced by the Chapter Film Workshop with discussion.

www.chapter.org

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Paul O'Leary @paulaber.bsky.social · Dec 20

@llafur.bsky.social @jjphillips94.bsky.social @neilevanshistory.bsky.social

Matt Graham @sahistorymatt.bsky.social · Dec 20

It is a nice way to finish the semester / the year of research to see my article on the Welsh Anti-Apartheid Movement now published. It identifies how cultural and national factors specific to Wales shaped the different forms of activism during the 1980s.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement

This article enhances our understanding of how national considerations shaped and bounded forms of transnational activism. The existing anti-apartheid scholarship acknowledges that activist respons...

www.tandfonline.com

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Paul O'Leary @paulaber.bsky.social · Dec 13

A useful snapshot of an important archive relating to the Chartist Rising at Newport, Nov. 1839.
@markcrail.bsky.social @jjphillips94.bsky.social

Gawain's Mum @gawainsmum.bsky.social · Dec 13

Newport Central Library now has some of its archives online: including Chartist trial records (issuu.com/lion7/docs/c...)

Chartist trial records examination of william davies of blackwood and morgan james of pillgwenlly

This document contains some of the papers relating to the trial of John Frost and others at Monmouthshire Assizes, 1839-40. specifically the evidence of two local Chartists, William Davies of Blackwoo...

issuu.com

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James Phillips @jjphillips94.bsky.social · Dec 7

ICYMI, @llafur.bsky.social has officially moved over.

Good to see everyone at our AGM this morning, and thanks for joining us!

Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · Dec 6

Llafur is on Bluesky!

We organise free events and have an annual journal for our members.

Why not check out tomorrow’s 2024 AGM and online event: Voices of the Strike!

Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · Dec 6

Llafur is on Bluesky!

We organise free events and have an annual journal for our members.

Why not check out tomorrow’s 2024 AGM and online event: Voices of the Strike!

Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...

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James Phillips @jjphillips94.bsky.social · Nov 18

Seems more peaceful this Musk-free universe.

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