Ref No | SWCC/AUD/316 |
Title | <title linktype="simple">Miners Institutes Study</title> |
Interview of Powell, Oliver |
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 Oliver Powell, Tredegar. Includes the attitude of the workforce after the 1926 General Strike; the scab union in Pochin; attitude of the Powell Duffryn Company to militants within the pit; the Tredegar Combine, including book selection for Tredegar Institute Library, profits of cinema ensuring the continued funding of the Library, concerts, and lectures; his opinion of Aneurin Bevan; conflict between the Tredegar District of the South Wales Miners Federation, and the Tredegar Combine; seeking employment in Southern England; visiting Germany in 1937 with the International Friendship League; and opinion of objectors to World War I</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Powell</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Oliver & Bevan</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Library, Chairman (Tredegar Workmen's Institute)</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Tredegar Combine Lodge Committee & South Wales Non-Political Union & Labour Party & Query Club & Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company & Tredegar Institute & South Wales Miners Federation & Publication - Miners Next Step & Bevans Freedom Group & Miners Minority Movement & Communist Party & Board of Guardians & Tredegar Strike Committee & Publication - Western Mail & International Friendship League & National Unemployed Workers Movement & National Council of Labour Colleges & Workers Educational Association & South Wales Miners Industrial Union</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar Welfare Hall</emph><emph altrender="county">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar Institute Library</emph><emph altrender="county">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Pochin Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Sirhowy Valley</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ty-Trist Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Bargoed Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Bargoed</emph><emph altrender="parish">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Germany</emph></geogname></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, 1921</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">persecution </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">show cards </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">cinemas </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Spanish Civil War </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">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">migration </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">industrial relations </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">blacklegs </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
Date | 1900 = 1973 (c) |
29.11.1973 |
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 : 2 |
Language | English |