| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/285 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Labour Party Leaders Study</title> |
| Interview of Thomas, Anne (Mrs) |
| 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 Mrs Anne Thomas, Cwmparc, widow of Iorrie Thomas MP. Included is her education, and her first recollections of her husband; religious and political influences on Iorrie Thomas, and his involvement in the Labour Party; his imprisonment following the 1926 General Strike and riots in Treorchy, and experiences in jail; relationship with the Communist Party</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Thomas</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Anne [Mrs] & Thomas</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">Workers Educational Association & Park and Dare Lodge & Labour Party & Communist Party & Independent Labour Party & United Front & South Wales Miners Industrial Union</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Rhondda</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Cwmparc</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Treorchy</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><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, General 1926</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </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">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">coal owners </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">lock out </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </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">legal proceedings </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">means testing </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1920 = 1940 (c) |
| 28.11.1973 |
| 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 : 1 |
| Language | English |