Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society
@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
To join please visit our website: www.llafur.org
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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
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
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
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
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
Also including the Llafur AGM 2025.
📆 Saturday 29 November
🕰️9.30am - 6pm
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
🎟️https://tinyurl.com/yb9cv7tm
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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.
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
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.
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 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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...
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join us tomorrow to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Join us tomorrow to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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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...
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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 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...
📆 30th October 2025
🕣 6.30pm
📍Storyville Books, Pontypridd
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/Storyville-B...
October 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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...
📆 30th October 2025
🕣 6.30pm
📍Storyville Books, Pontypridd
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/Storyville-B...
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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
Find more incredible images here in our visual archive ➡️ buff.ly/CqTzlAb
#GreenhamCommonWomensPeaceCamp #Activism #Peace #Protest #Feminism #AntiWar #AntiNuclear
October 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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
Find more incredible images here in our visual archive ➡️ buff.ly/CqTzlAb
#GreenhamCommonWomensPeaceCamp #Activism #Peace #Protest #Feminism #AntiWar #AntiNuclear
The Welfare Ystradgynlais have a great line up of coalfield events this month! Check out what's on 👇👇👇
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Welfare Ystradgynlais have a great line up of coalfield events this month! Check out what's on 👇👇👇
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Time 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
#Heritage #History #WelshHistory #Memorials @aberuni.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social @interpolaber.bsky.social
New opportunity to join this popular lifelong learning course @aberuni.bsky.social open to all.
- Pre-recorded lectures (learn in your own time)
- Lively seminar discussions
- Heaps of reading suggestions & research resources - focus on what interests you
- Real world skills & issues
+ much more!
- Pre-recorded lectures (learn in your own time)
- Lively seminar discussions
- Heaps of reading suggestions & research resources - focus on what interests you
- Real world skills & issues
+ much more!
October 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Time 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
#Heritage #History #WelshHistory #Memorials @aberuni.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social @interpolaber.bsky.social
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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.
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.
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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.
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.
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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
At 3.00pm all delegates will have the chance to join us for the first screening followed by a live Q&A 👇
#Museums2025
Join us online for a live event to kick off Conference 2025 - Museums Association
Live event | St Fagans online tour and Q&A Monday 6 October1500-1535 Join us online for this special live event …
www.museumsassociation.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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
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
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
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
Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools.
🗓️Friday 24th October
🕰️2pm
📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum
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'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.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...
You can also join Aled in conversation at events throughout the autumn.
September 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
'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.
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...
You can also join Aled in conversation at events throughout the autumn.
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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
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
September 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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
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
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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-...
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-...
September 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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-...
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-...
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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...
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
October 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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...
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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...
📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall
🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
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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...
July 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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...
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) 🏴
July 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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) 🏴
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Remembering Coal. One-day event at the University of Birmingham next Monday (16 June). Details…
sslh.org.uk/2025/06/11/r...
sslh.org.uk/2025/06/11/r...
Remembering Coal: Legacy, Memories, Heritage
The University of Birmingham is hosting a one-day event titled Remembering Coal: Legacy, Memories, Heritage to mark its links with the mining industry. Click to download the conference programme. T…
sslh.org.uk
June 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Remembering Coal. One-day event at the University of Birmingham next Monday (16 June). Details…
sslh.org.uk/2025/06/11/r...
sslh.org.uk/2025/06/11/r...
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Forthcoming Saothar 50 will have article on Irish solidarity with the miners.
www.rte.ie/archives/201...
www.rte.ie/archives/201...
Striking Miners Children
Children of mine workers from Wales holiday in Irish homes as the strike in British coal industry continues.
www.rte.ie
May 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Forthcoming Saothar 50 will have article on Irish solidarity with the miners.
www.rte.ie/archives/201...
www.rte.ie/archives/201...
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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:
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@archpbu.bsky.social
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Sign the Petition
SAVE YOUR ARCHIVE / ACHUBWCH EICH ARCHIFDY
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May 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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
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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
May 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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
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-...
📆 25/04/2025
⏰ 6pm - 8pm
📍 The New Plaza, Port Talbot
For more info and free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...
April 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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-...
📆 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!
Thank you to all those who presented and attended!
April 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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!
Thank you to all those who presented and attended!
Don’t forget! 👇👇👇
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...
🗓️ 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
April 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Don’t forget! 👇👇👇