Recordings of Seminars concerned with the South Wales Coalfield

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 217 SWCC : AUD/Project/17
  • Dates of Creation
      1973-1974
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      9 recordings

Scope and Content

Recordings of various seminars in the History of the South Wales Coalfield 1973-1974 series including seminar presented by Rt Hon Michael Foot entitled `Aneurin Bevan'; seminar presented by Robin Page Arnot entitled `The Years of Ordeal : South Wales Miners 1914-1926'; seminar presented by Charles Blewett entitled `Social and Economic Consequences of Pit Closure - The Campaign to Save Penallta Colliery'; seminar presented by Prof Ronald Frankenberg entitled `To Interpret the World Or To Change It:Education and the Labour Movement'; seminar presented by Julian Hart entitled `South Wales Miners'Prepaid Medical Care before the National Health Service'; seminar presented by Michael and Richard Keen entitled `South Wales Hauliers' Strike of 1893'; seminar presented by Charles Parker entitled `The History of the South Wales Coalfield'; seminar presented by Harri Webb entitled `Poets of the South Wales Coalfield'; and seminar presented by Richard Lewis entitled `Workers Education:The Emergence of Two Traditions'.

Administrative / Biographical History

This collection consists of recordings of various seminars in the 'History of the South Wales Coalfield' series.

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