James Phillips
@jjphillips94.bsky.social
Historian of political cultures and the labour movement. PhD from Cardiff University on political traditions in Monmouthshire, 1918-29. AHRC Cities. Llafur Events. LFC, always #JFT97
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Thank you again to everyone who attended today’s conference!
Special thanks to the Cyfarthfa Foundation, Theatr Soar, and all of today’s speakers 👏
📔If you want to stay updated and receive our annual journal, you can join Llafur for just £15 a year: www.llafur.org/membership/
Special thanks to the Cyfarthfa Foundation, Theatr Soar, and all of today’s speakers 👏
📔If you want to stay updated and receive our annual journal, you can join Llafur for just £15 a year: www.llafur.org/membership/
Membership - Llafur
www.llafur.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thank you again to everyone who attended today’s conference!
Special thanks to the Cyfarthfa Foundation, Theatr Soar, and all of today’s speakers 👏
📔If you want to stay updated and receive our annual journal, you can join Llafur for just £15 a year: www.llafur.org/membership/
Special thanks to the Cyfarthfa Foundation, Theatr Soar, and all of today’s speakers 👏
📔If you want to stay updated and receive our annual journal, you can join Llafur for just £15 a year: www.llafur.org/membership/
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And we finish the day with the Cyfarthfa Foundation Public Lecture given by Dr Stephanie Ward on ‘The Women of Merthyr: Town, Region and Nation’
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
And we finish the day with the Cyfarthfa Foundation Public Lecture given by Dr Stephanie Ward on ‘The Women of Merthyr: Town, Region and Nation’
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Session 4: The Stories We Tell - History, Heritage and Next Steps
Panellists: Sian Williams, Rhian Hall, Kelly Powell, Steph Mastoris and Darren Macey
Chaired by Jess Mahoney (Chief Executive, Cyfarthfa Foundation)
Panellists: Sian Williams, Rhian Hall, Kelly Powell, Steph Mastoris and Darren Macey
Chaired by Jess Mahoney (Chief Executive, Cyfarthfa Foundation)
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Session 4: The Stories We Tell - History, Heritage and Next Steps
Panellists: Sian Williams, Rhian Hall, Kelly Powell, Steph Mastoris and Darren Macey
Chaired by Jess Mahoney (Chief Executive, Cyfarthfa Foundation)
Panellists: Sian Williams, Rhian Hall, Kelly Powell, Steph Mastoris and Darren Macey
Chaired by Jess Mahoney (Chief Executive, Cyfarthfa Foundation)
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Session 3: History, Culture and Art
Diolch yn fawr:
Prof. Jane Aaron: ‘Representing the ‘New Woman’ in Wales: Remembering Ursula Masson’
and Dr Peter Wakelin: ‘Activism and Inspiration: Dowlais and the Merthyr artists’
Diolch yn fawr:
Prof. Jane Aaron: ‘Representing the ‘New Woman’ in Wales: Remembering Ursula Masson’
and Dr Peter Wakelin: ‘Activism and Inspiration: Dowlais and the Merthyr artists’
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Session 3: History, Culture and Art
Diolch yn fawr:
Prof. Jane Aaron: ‘Representing the ‘New Woman’ in Wales: Remembering Ursula Masson’
and Dr Peter Wakelin: ‘Activism and Inspiration: Dowlais and the Merthyr artists’
Diolch yn fawr:
Prof. Jane Aaron: ‘Representing the ‘New Woman’ in Wales: Remembering Ursula Masson’
and Dr Peter Wakelin: ‘Activism and Inspiration: Dowlais and the Merthyr artists’
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Session 2: Politics, Society and Internationalism
Thank you to both our speakers:
Dr Marion Löffler on ‘Merthyr’s European Connections’
and Dr Martin Wright on ‘James Kier Hardie MP: Merthyr, Wales and the World’
Thank you to both our speakers:
Dr Marion Löffler on ‘Merthyr’s European Connections’
and Dr Martin Wright on ‘James Kier Hardie MP: Merthyr, Wales and the World’
November 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Session 2: Politics, Society and Internationalism
Thank you to both our speakers:
Dr Marion Löffler on ‘Merthyr’s European Connections’
and Dr Martin Wright on ‘James Kier Hardie MP: Merthyr, Wales and the World’
Thank you to both our speakers:
Dr Marion Löffler on ‘Merthyr’s European Connections’
and Dr Martin Wright on ‘James Kier Hardie MP: Merthyr, Wales and the World’
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Session 1: Industrial Beginnings
Diolch yn fawr to:
Dr Marian Gwyn on ‘Iron and Empire - Anthony Bacon and the global roots of Cyfarthfa’.
and Huw Williams on ‘A Crawshay come to life town!’
Diolch yn fawr to:
Dr Marian Gwyn on ‘Iron and Empire - Anthony Bacon and the global roots of Cyfarthfa’.
and Huw Williams on ‘A Crawshay come to life town!’
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Session 1: Industrial Beginnings
Diolch yn fawr to:
Dr Marian Gwyn on ‘Iron and Empire - Anthony Bacon and the global roots of Cyfarthfa’.
and Huw Williams on ‘A Crawshay come to life town!’
Diolch yn fawr to:
Dr Marian Gwyn on ‘Iron and Empire - Anthony Bacon and the global roots of Cyfarthfa’.
and Huw Williams on ‘A Crawshay come to life town!’
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Keynote, Geraint Talfan Davies, has started the day off with ‘Cyfarthfa - which stories to tell?’
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Keynote, Geraint Talfan Davies, has started the day off with ‘Cyfarthfa - which stories to tell?’
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The ‘History and Heritage in Merthyr’ conference has begun!
We’ll be keeping you updated with today’s programme ⬇️⬇️⬇️
We’ll be keeping you updated with today’s programme ⬇️⬇️⬇️
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The ‘History and Heritage in Merthyr’ conference has begun!
We’ll be keeping you updated with today’s programme ⬇️⬇️⬇️
We’ll be keeping you updated with today’s programme ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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A very interesting day at Theatr Soar for 'History and Heritage in Merthyr' with @llafur.bsky.social and the Cyfarthfa Foundation 📚
Wonderful to learn so much about the town my family call home 🏠
#Wales #History
Wonderful to learn so much about the town my family call home 🏠
#Wales #History
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A very interesting day at Theatr Soar for 'History and Heritage in Merthyr' with @llafur.bsky.social and the Cyfarthfa Foundation 📚
Wonderful to learn so much about the town my family call home 🏠
#Wales #History
Wonderful to learn so much about the town my family call home 🏠
#Wales #History
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Gavin McCann visited @swminerslibrary.bsky.social to research his book on libraries, trade unions and education with the help of an SSLH bursary. Read his report and find out more about our research bursaries here 👇
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...
Gavin McCann on the libraries of the South Wales miners
Gavin McCann is researching a book on libraries, trade unions and education. Here he writes about his visit to the South Wales Miners’ Library in search of a lost culture of socialist educati…
sslh.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Gavin McCann visited @swminerslibrary.bsky.social to research his book on libraries, trade unions and education with the help of an SSLH bursary. Read his report and find out more about our research bursaries here 👇
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...
sslh.org.uk/2025/11/28/g...
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🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
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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
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
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.
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🚨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 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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.
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Minnie Pallister now out in paperback. Lovely job...thanks @parthianbooks.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Minnie Pallister now out in paperback. Lovely job...thanks @parthianbooks.bsky.social
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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
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).
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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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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!
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Until September 2021, there wasn’t a single statue of a real Welsh woman in Wales!
Monumental Welsh Women have worked to change this by commissioning 5 statues of 5 real Welsh women.
You can read more about their work here: monumentalwelshwomen.com
Monumental Welsh Women have worked to change this by commissioning 5 statues of 5 real Welsh women.
You can read more about their work here: monumentalwelshwomen.com
Monumental Welsh Women
Monumental Welsh Women is a not for profit organisation dedicated to recognising the contribution of welsh women (hidden heroines) to the history and life of Wales
monumentalwelshwomen.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Until September 2021, there wasn’t a single statue of a real Welsh woman in Wales!
Monumental Welsh Women have worked to change this by commissioning 5 statues of 5 real Welsh women.
You can read more about their work here: monumentalwelshwomen.com
Monumental Welsh Women have worked to change this by commissioning 5 statues of 5 real Welsh women.
You can read more about their work here: monumentalwelshwomen.com
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Monumental Welsh Women are fundraising for their fifth and final statue which commemorates Elizabeth Andrews and her work which championed social reform and women’s rights (to keep it brief!).
They have £25,000 left to raise, if able, please donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/the-statue...
They have £25,000 left to raise, if able, please donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/the-statue...
Donate to The Statue for Elizabeth Andrews Group, Hirwaun., organized by Helen Molyneux
The Statue for Elizabeth Andrews Group in Hirwaun is working with Monu… Helen Molyneux needs your support for The Statue for Elizabeth Andrews Group, Hirwaun.
www.gofundme.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Monumental Welsh Women are fundraising for their fifth and final statue which commemorates Elizabeth Andrews and her work which championed social reform and women’s rights (to keep it brief!).
They have £25,000 left to raise, if able, please donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/the-statue...
They have £25,000 left to raise, if able, please donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/the-statue...
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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
March 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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...
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Next Sunday, Terry Dimmick presents a series of films and a discussion on Wales and the 1984/5 miners’ strike!
👉 Strike! Wales in the Miners’ Strike + Discussion
📆 Sunday 2nd March, 2.30pm
📍 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Tickets: www.chapter.org/whats-on/str...
👉 Strike! Wales in the Miners’ Strike + Discussion
📆 Sunday 2nd March, 2.30pm
📍 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Tickets: www.chapter.org/whats-on/str...
Chapter | Strike! Wales in the Miners’ Strike (adv 12a) + discussion
A series of films produced by the Chapter Film Workshop with discussion.
www.chapter.org
February 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Next Sunday, Terry Dimmick presents a series of films and a discussion on Wales and the 1984/5 miners’ strike!
👉 Strike! Wales in the Miners’ Strike + Discussion
📆 Sunday 2nd March, 2.30pm
📍 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Tickets: www.chapter.org/whats-on/str...
👉 Strike! Wales in the Miners’ Strike + Discussion
📆 Sunday 2nd March, 2.30pm
📍 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Tickets: www.chapter.org/whats-on/str...
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It is a nice way to finish the semester / the year of research to see my article on the Welsh Anti-Apartheid Movement now published. It identifies how cultural and national factors specific to Wales shaped the different forms of activism during the 1980s.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement
This article enhances our understanding of how national considerations shaped and bounded forms of transnational activism. The existing anti-apartheid scholarship acknowledges that activist respons...
www.tandfonline.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:45 PM