| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/282 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Adult Education Study</title> |
| Interview of Williams, Len |
| 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 Len Williams, Neath, mainly concerning experiences within the Workers Educational Association (WEA). Included is his schooling, and working in the steel works; political and religious influences and becoming a free-thinker; development of the Independent Labour Party and the WEA in Briton Ferry, and LW's involvement; World War I and religious and socialist conscientious objectors; development and growth of adult education and discussion groups; conflict between the WEA and the National Council of Labour Colleges classes; opinions on Sam Mainwaring, Emma Golman, Henry Davies and others</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Williams</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Len & Mainwaring</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet">Bill</emph></persname><occupation>Blacksmiths & School Attendance Officer (Neath)</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Workers Educational Association & Independent Labour Party & Iron and Steel Trades Confederation & Labour Party & Independent Labour Party & Transport and General Workers Union & Tin and Sheet Millmen Union & Socialist League & Socialist Party & National Council Of Labour Colleges & South Wales Miners Federation & Workers Educational Trades Union Committee & Communist Party & Postal Workers Union</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Briton Ferry</emph><emph altrender="county">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Albion Steelworks</emph><emph altrender="county">Briton Ferry</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tinplate Works</emph><emph altrender="county">Baglan Bay</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Neath</emph><emph altrender="county">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">University of Wales Swansea</emph><emph altrender="county">Swansea</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Coleg Harlech</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwynedd</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Chequers</emph><emph altrender="county">Briton Ferry</emph><emph altrender="parish">West Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War I 1914-18</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steel industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">children </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">welfare </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">conscientious objectors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">choirs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">allowances </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">contributions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">transport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">steel industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list><list type="deflist"><defitem><label>Free field</label><item>Defence Of The Realm Regulation Act</item></defitem></list> |
| Date | 1900 = 1940 (c) |
| 21.5.1974 |
| 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 |