@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
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
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.
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join us tomorrow to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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.
24.10.2025 09:35 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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
19/10/2025: History on Film: Fascism & Oil – Documentary Double Bill
Compelling double bill exploring Welsh voices standing against oppression, featuring Facing Up to the Fascists and Pouring Water on Troubled Oil!
More info: thewelfare.co.uk/Shows/histor...
19 and 23/10/25: Art & Activism at the Coalfields: Community Sharing
Celebrating Arts & Activism in the heart of the Coalfield through shared memories and stories.
More info: thewelfare.co.uk/Shows/art-ac...
16/10/25: Diversity in Mining: A Conversation
A panel of historians, including Dr Steven Thompson, Myya Helm and Norena Shopland, covering women in mining, disability in mining and Black mining history, followed by the opportunity to ask any questions!
More info: thewelfare.co.uk/Shows/divers...
The Welfare Ystradgynlais have a great line up of coalfield events this month! Check out what's on 👇👇👇
10.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Time 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
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.
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
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
8 October - Whitchurch Tennis Club, Cardiff 10 October - Mathias Hall, Bangor University 30 October - Storyville, Pontypridd 2 November - Aberaeron Literary Festival 6 November - King’s Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff 8 November - Wrights, Llanarthne 13 November - Canolfan Cantref, Y Bala 18 November - Palas Print, Caernarfon 19 November - Siop Penrallt, Machynlleth 20 November - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 21 November - Plaid Cymru Society Archives, Cardiff
'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.
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
‘Dafydd Elis-Thomas was an unusually gifted politician who made a genuinely significant contribution, even while managing to infuriate his warmest admirers on a regular basis. By refusing to smooth over the contradictions, this fine biography allows us to better grasp not only the character and motivations of this most mercurial of men, but also the nature of the nation to which he was to devote his life.’ Professor Richard Wyn Jones, author of Putting Wales First: The Political Thought of Plaid Cymru
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-...
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).
02.10.2025 18:57 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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...
Hello Bluesky! We are a working partnership funded by Welsh Government to deliver a digital archives volunteer project. Our global family of remote volunteers work on digital collections to make them more accessible. More info here: gwentarchives.gov.uk/en/partnersh...
15.07.2025 09:25 — 👍 34 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 0Simultaneous translation will be available!
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Bethan M. Hughes will be presenting ‘Stitching Peace: An Artist’s Creative Response to the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition’ at Archif Menywod Cymru/Women’s Archive Wales’ session at the National Eisteddfod in Wrecsam at 12.30pm on Friday 8 August in Pabell y Cymdeithasau 2 (Societies’ Tent 2) 🏴
15.07.2025 12:20 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Remembering Coal. One-day event at the University of Birmingham next Monday (16 June). Details…
sslh.org.uk/2025/06/11/r...
Forthcoming Saothar 50 will have article on Irish solidarity with the miners.
www.rte.ie/archives/201...
Please consider signing this petition to retain Bangor University Archives and Special Collections as an essential part of the cultural and intellectual life of Wales:
www.change.org/p/save-your-...
@archpbu.bsky.social
Excellent afternoon yesterday launching our latest publication, The Diary of Amy Dillwyn. Lesbian author, industrial pioneer, charity organiser, her diaries chart a very remarkable life. Edited by Kirsti Bohata and available here www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/37.htm
18.05.2025 08:10 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
This Friday, Angela V. John will be giving a talk exploring the lesser-known story of Richard Burton’s teacher and legal guardian, Philip Burton.
📆 25/04/2025
⏰ 6pm - 8pm
📍 The New Plaza, Port Talbot
For more info and free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...
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!
Don’t forget! 👇👇👇
07.04.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
