"And the dream that is born in the blaze of the sun": 1926 and Coalfield Community | 1926 a Chymuned Maes Glo

Llafur’s, the Welsh People’s History Society, summer series to commemorate the centenary of the 1926 General Strike and seven-month lock-out continues. The final two sessions look at 19…

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Llafur, the Welsh People’s History Society, is holding a series of summer talks, panels and discussions on the 1926 General Strike and lock-out in Wales. The following programme of six online…

To mark the 100th anniversary of the British General Strike, a new exhibition at the University of Newcastle, reveals how workers, politicians, and trade unionists faced the challenge of the Genera…

The nine days of the General Strike in May 1926 shook the foundations of British society as over 1.5 million workers across the country downed tools. For many in the trade union movement it was a s…

The month of May marks the centenary of the General Strike that began at one minute to midnight on 3 May 1926. The following nine days shook the foundations of British society as over a million and…

This exhibition marks the passage through parliament of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill 2026 (commonly referred to as Hillsborough Law).

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…

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…

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…