Llafur, the Welsh People’s History Society, is holding a series of summer talks, panels and discussions on the 1926 General Strike and lock-out in Wales.

The following programme of six online sessions will take place over the course of this summer and early autumn. All online sessions are accessible to all and will be held via Zoom at the times shown below.

Summer Programme:

“Now it is May in the minds of men”: New Perspectives on 1926″

Saturday 30th May (10:00-11:30)

• Prof. David Featherstone – Contested Politics of Solidarity: Seafarers, Miners and 1926
• Dr Joe Redmayne – A maritime and transport perspective of the General Strike 1926: within and beyond the North East
• Dr Fatima Chorfi – TBC.

“Days for vision and for marching”: Community responses and the industrial universe of the coalfields in 1926

Saturday 6th June (10:00-11:45)

• Dr Sue Demont – Tipcat tournaments and 280 boots: the lived experience of 1926 in the Sirhowy Valley
• Sir Wayne David – Morgan Jones MP, the Rhymney Valley and ‘That summer of soups and speeches’
• Prof. Keith Gildart – The other Welsh Coalfield: Solidarity and Division in Denbighshire and Flintshire in the 1926 Miners’ Lock-Out
• Huw Williams – Merthyr Tydfil and the General Strike 1926: a Historical Legacy 1926-2026

“Blaring defiant tunes”: Relief, resilience and jazz

Saturday 18th July (10:00-11:30)

• Prof. Sir Deian Hopkin – 1926 and the crisis of unemployment
• Sue Bowyer – Beatrice Lewis – a woman who got things done
• Dr Steve Thompson – The ‘Carnival Craze’ in south Wales during the Coal Lockout of 1926

“And out goes she”: The women of 1926

Saturday 25th July (10:00-11:30)

• Dr Sue Bruley – Women and the communal kitchens of 1926; the disruption of the gender order in the Miners’ Lockout in the South Wales coalfield
• Micaela Panes – With Energy and Devotion: Labour Women and the Miners’ Lockout

“Whose faith and courage shall be told”: Remembering 1926 in our archives, libraries and collections

Date TBC

“Year One”: The aftermath and legacy of 1926

Date TBC

All online sessions will be free and accessible to all.

Find out more and book your tickets here.

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