Video of a talk by James Yeoman on migrant Spanish anarchists living and working in the Welsh valleys in the early 20th century. Copied to clipboard anarchism Spain mining Wales migration Bristol Radical History Group James Yeoman Merthyr Tydfil video Comments
Spanish anarchists in the Welsh valleys A short account of the Spanish miners in South Wales and their relationship - sometimes positive, sometimes strained - with the local mining…
Spaniards in the valleys - Martin Selby Interesting book written by Nicolas Dueñas, writing as Martin Selby, with recollections of the coalmining communities in the Welsh valleys at the…
Masera, Pedro (1877- 1938) A short biography of the Spanish anarchist miner Pedro Masera, murdered by the Francoists in 1938
Salt of the Earth This drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centres on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the…
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…
The Monongah mining disaster, 1907 - Steven Johns A short account of the worst mining disaster in US history, which killed over 360 mostly Italian migrant workers and which was the inspiration…
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