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James Phillips
@jjphillips94.bsky.social
Historian of political cultures and the labour movement. PhD from Cardiff University on political traditions in Monmouthshire, 1918-29. AHRC Cities. Llafur Events. LFC, always #JFT97
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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
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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.
Llafur.org | Welcome to Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society.
Llafur brings together people with an interest in Welsh people’s history. We organise events looking at aspects of our history & publish the journal Llafur.
www.llafur.org
October 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🚨REMINDER🚨
Join us tomorrow to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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...
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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.
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...
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Minnie Pallister now out in paperback. Lovely job...thanks @parthianbooks.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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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
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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).
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...
October 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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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...
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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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!
April 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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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
March 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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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
March 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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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
March 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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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
February 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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A useful snapshot of an important archive relating to the Chartist Rising at Newport, Nov. 1839.
@markcrail.bsky.social @jjphillips94.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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...
December 7, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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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...
December 6, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Seems more peaceful this Musk-free universe.
November 18, 2024 at 8:19 PM