| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/302 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Bedlinog Community Study</title> |
| Interview of Howells, Harry |
| 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 Harry Howells, Bedlinog. Includes his family background; how he began working in the pit; his interest in politics and trade unionism; the scab union in Taff-Merthyr; effect of the 1934 Taff-Merthyr strike on the community, including police conflict and his arrest, trial, and imprisonment; experiences within prison; his personal interest and involvement in the Communist Party; decline of the Communist Party; his involvement in Lodge activities; and social life in Bedlinog</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Howells</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Harry & Davies</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Colliers & Labourers & Lodge Secretary</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company & South Wales Miners Federation & Council of Action (Bedlinog) & Miners Federation of Great Britain & South Wales Miners Industrial Union & Communist Party & Labour Party & Taff-Merthyr Lodge</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bedlinog</emph><emph altrender="county">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">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, 1921</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, Taff-Merthyr 1934</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, Stay-Down 1935 (Taff-Merthyr)</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">wages </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">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">riots </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">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sport </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">football </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">rugby </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">recreation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1910 = 1973 (c) |
| 8.1973 |
| 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 |