Event Information:
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Sat16Sep201710am - 4pmLlay Miner's Welfare Hall, Wrexham LL12 0TH
Day School: Deindustrialisation and Wales
10:00 Welcome
10:10 Vic Tyler-Jones Llay Main: Its Colliery and Village.
10:55 Bleddyn Penny Protest and Pragmatism: Welsh Steelworkers’ Responses to Deindustrialisation.
11:40 Leon Gooberman The Rise and Fall of the BNS/ICI Factory at Pontypool: A Case Study of Deindustrialisation.
12:30 Lunch Break (Tea and coffee will be available, but there will be no lunch provided at this event).
13:15 Keith Gildart The Decline of Coal Mining in North East Wales, 1947-1996.
14:00 Iwan England Aberfan: The Fight for Justice.
14:45 Valerie Walkerdine Gender, Work & Community after Deindustrialisation: The Case of a Former Steel Town in South Wales.
15:30 Closing Remarks
This event is FREE to attend and a warm welcome is extended to all.
To book your free place and register please contact: Siân Williams, Llafur Secretary, c/o South Wales Miners’ Library, Swansea University, Hendrefoelan Campus, Gower Road, Swansea, SA2 7NB. Tel: 01792 518693
Email: miners@swansea.ac.uk
https://www.llafur.org/events/day-school-deindustrialisation-wales/