Thank you again to everyone who attended today’s conference!
Special thanks to the Cyfarthfa Foundation, Theatr Soar, and all of today’s speakers 👏

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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’

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)

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’

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’

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!’

Keynote, Geraint Talfan Davies, has started the day off with ‘Cyfarthfa - which stories to tell?’

If you're interested in journal issues beyond 2004 or would like to find something specific, the Llafur website and our journal search will also hopefully be helpful -
www.llafur.org/journal/

Hi David. the Llafur journal from Vol. 1, No. 1 to Vol. 9, No. 1 (1972 - 2004) is accessible online via the NLW journals online site here - journals.library.wales/browse/1326508

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