A collection of images by Dewi Bowlen about the Merthyr rising. strikes riots uprisings mining Wales metals 1830s Dewi Bowlen Comments
1831: the Merthyr Rising and Dic Penderyn An account of an brief uprising in South Wales in 1831 and the fate of Richard Lewis, known as Dic Penderyn. The uprising was the largest…
1831: Merthyr Tydfil uprising In 1831, Merthyr Tydfil, iron workers struck against redundancies, rising prices and bailiffs, leading to several thousand workers involved in…
The Mold riots: The summer of ‘69 The story of the 1869 riots in Mold, Wales. Following a trial in which miners were convicted of assaulting their manager, soldiers fired on angry…
1918: Rice riots and strikes in Japan From July-September 1918, Japan was swept with a wave of riots from rural fishing villages to major industrial centres and coal fields, in what…
Cambrian Combine miners strike and Tonypandy riot, 1910 - Sam Lowry A short history of a strike by miners in South Wales in 1910 which led to a series of confrontations…
Armageddon at Implat's wildcat strike? Mine eruptions escalate in South Africa 22 February 2012. South African miners are in the fifth week of a wildcat strike that has paralysed…
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