| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/103 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Former Prime Ministers, Ministers of Fuel and Power etc, and Mining Constituency Members of Parliament's Study</title> |
| Interview of Rowlands, Ted |
| Second South Wales Coalfield Project 1979-82 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Ted Rowland, MP Merthyr. Includes discussion of his MP predecessors in Merthyr; the scale of pit closures in 1960-70's; his father's involvement in the nuclear industry; pits in Merthyr; his formal connections and Parliamentary relations with the National Union of Mineworkers; the strikes of 1972 and 1974; and the future of the South Wales coalfield</p><p></p><list><item><persname role="MP Merthyr"><emph altrender="surname">Rowlands</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Ted</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Hardie</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Keir & Wallhead</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Members of Parliament</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Labour Party & National Union of Mineworkers</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Merthyr Tydfil</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Harwell Nuclear Atomic Energy Site</emph><emph altrender="county">Berkshire</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Crisis, Suez Canal 1956</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1972</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1974</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">housing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">oil industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nuclear energy </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">mechanisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">galas </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pit conditions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1956 = 1980 (c) |
| 30.1.1980 |
| Related Material | <archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref> |
| Physical Description | good |
| Extent | no of tapes : 1 |
| Language | English |