| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/396 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Bedlinog Community Study</title> |
| Interview of Williams, J L |
| First South Wales Coalfield Project 1972-74 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of J L Williams. Includes his family background, and migration to South Wales to look for work; recollections of Winston Churchill speaking at a miners demonstration in 1906; differences between Cilfynydd and Bedlinog Collieries; his involvement in the Independent Labour Party in Bedlinog; anti-War feeling in Bedlinog; the coalfield during the War years; and his experiences at the Labour College</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Williams</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">J L & Abraham</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Farm Labourers & Timbermen & Colliers</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">South Wales Miners Federation & Independent Labour Party & Cambrian Combine Committee & Miners Federation of Great Britain & Unofficial Reform Committee & Publication - Miners Next Step & Publication - Merthyr Pioneer & National Council of Labour Colleges & Industrial Democracy League & Rhondda Socialist Society & Publication - Justice & South Wales Socialist Party & National Union of Railwaymen</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cilfynydd</emph><emph altrender="county">Pontypridd</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Albion Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Cilfynydd</emph><emph altrender="parish">Pontypridd</emph><emph altrender="township">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bedlinog Collieries</emph><emph altrender="county">Bedlinog</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Central Labour College</emph><emph altrender="county">London</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abercynon Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Abercynon</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Nantgarw Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Taffs Well</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Demonstration, Miners 1906</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Cambrian Combine 1910-11</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1915</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War I 1914-18</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War II 1939-45</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">wages </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">shift working </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">hours of work </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">migration </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War II </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1905 = 1973 (c) |
| 24.4.1973 |
| 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 : 2 |
| Language | English |