| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/212 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Interviews 1974-79 Study</title> |
| Interview of Evans, Edgar |
| Recordings During The Period 1974-79 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Edgar Evans, Broad Haven. Includes a discussion of the founding of the Miners Institute and Welfare Hall in Bedlinog; the persecution of people involved in trade unionism, and the non-union campaigns; his arrest, trial and imprisonment in 1935; the welcome he received on his release; the Minority Movement in Bedlinog; the role of the shopkeepers in the 1926 General Strike; a comparison of Maerdy and Bedlinog; volunteers for Spain; and the work completed during his time on the Council</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Evans</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Edgar & Thomas</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Shopkeepers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Communist Party & Labour Party & South Wales Miners Federation & National Coal Board & Minority Movement & Council of Action (Bedlinog) & Trades and Labour Council (Bedlinog) & International Class War Prisoners Aid Society & Ocean Combine Committee & Spanish Aid Committee & South Wales Miners Industrial Union</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bedlinog</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Maerdy</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bedlinog Welfare Hall</emph><emph altrender="county">Bedlinog</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Taff Merthyr Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Treharris</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Taff-Merthyr 1934</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, General 1926</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Anthracite 1925</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Spanish Civil War 1936-39</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Election, Local 1934</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Election, Local 1950</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">contributions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sickness </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Spanish Civil War </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">choir </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">communism </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1910 = 1973 (c) |
| 9.7.1975 |
| 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 : 3 |
| Language | English |