Thank you again to everyone who attended today’s conference!
Special thanks to the Cyfarthfa Foundation, Theatr Soar, and all of today’s speakers 👏
📔If you want to stay updated and receive our annual journal, you can join Llafur for just £15 a year: www.llafur.org/membership/
And we finish the day with the Cyfarthfa Foundation Public Lecture given by Dr Stephanie Ward on ‘The Women of Merthyr: Town, Region and Nation’
Session 4: The Stories We Tell - History, Heritage and Next Steps
Panellists: Sian Williams, Rhian Hall, Kelly Powell, Steph Mastoris and Darren Macey
Chaired by Jess Mahoney (Chief Executive, Cyfarthfa Foundation)
Session 3: History, Culture and Art
Diolch yn fawr:
Prof. Jane Aaron: ‘Representing the ‘New Woman’ in Wales: Remembering Ursula Masson’
and Dr Peter Wakelin: ‘Activism and Inspiration: Dowlais and the Merthyr artists’
Session 2: Politics, Society and Internationalism
Thank you to both our speakers:
Dr Marion Löffler on ‘Merthyr’s European Connections’
and Dr Martin Wright on ‘James Kier Hardie MP: Merthyr, Wales and the World’
Session 1: Industrial Beginnings
Diolch yn fawr to:
Dr Marian Gwyn on ‘Iron and Empire - Anthony Bacon and the global roots of Cyfarthfa’.
and Huw Williams on ‘A Crawshay come to life town!’
Keynote, Geraint Talfan Davies, has started the day off with ‘Cyfarthfa - which stories to tell?’
The ‘History and Heritage in Merthyr’ conference has begun!
We’ll be keeping you updated with today’s programme ⬇️⬇️⬇️
A very interesting day at Theatr Soar for 'History and Heritage in Merthyr' with @llafur.bsky.social and the Cyfarthfa Foundation 📚
Wonderful to learn so much about the town my family call home 🏠
#Wales #History
Gavin McCann visited @swminerslibrary.bsky.social to research his book on libraries, trade unions and education with the help of an SSLH bursary. Read his report and find out more about our research bursaries here 👇
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
If you're interested in journal issues beyond 2004 or would like to find something specific, the Llafur website and our journal search will also hopefully be helpful -
www.llafur.org/journal/
Hi David. the Llafur journal from Vol. 1, No. 1 to Vol. 9, No. 1 (1972 - 2004) is accessible online via the NLW journals online site here - journals.library.wales/browse/1326508
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.
Minnie Pallister now out in paperback. Lovely job...thanks @parthianbooks.bsky.social
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
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).
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...
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!
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 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...
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...
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...
@llafur.bsky.social @jjphillips94.bsky.social @neilevanshistory.bsky.social
A useful snapshot of an important archive relating to the Chartist Rising at Newport, Nov. 1839.
@markcrail.bsky.social @jjphillips94.bsky.social
ICYMI, @llafur.bsky.social has officially moved over.
Good to see everyone at our AGM this morning, and thanks for joining us!
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...
