| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/339 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Adult Education Study</title> |
| Interview of Coldrick, Will |
| 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 Will Coldrick, Bristol. Includes his family background, and the development of his interest in politics and trade unionism; his attitude to World War I; an explanation of the aims of the Unofficial Reform Committee; subjects studied in adult education classes; opinion of the Irish struggle and the Russian revolution; his involvement with the Independent Labour Party; personalities who attended the Central Labour College with WC; returning to work underground; increasing South Wales Miners Federation membership following the 1921 strike; teaching classes in the locality; the conversion of a grocers shop into Abersychan Welfare Hall; and his arrest and imprisonment following a demonstration during the 1926 General Strike</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Coldrick</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Will & Harvey</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Boys, Collier & Colliers & Lodge Secretary (Correspondence) & SWMF Executive Member & Tutor, Adult Education </occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Unofficial Reform Committee & South Wales Miners Federation & Plebs League & Independent Labour Party & Publication - Miners Next Step & Workers Educational Association & National Council of Labour Colleges & Co-operative Education Committee & Socialist Labour Party & Labour Party & Blaensychan and Llanlock Lodge & Partridge Jones and Company Limited & Miners Welfare Scheme & SWMF Executive Council & Miners Federation of Great Britain</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abersychan</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Abersychan Brick Works</emph><emph altrender="county">Abersychan</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Blaenserchan Colliery</emph><emph altrender="county">Pontypool</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</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">Abersychan Welfare Hall</emph><emph altrender="county">Abersychan</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Ireland</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Russia</emph></geogname></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">World War I 1914-18</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Revolution, Russia 1917</emph></subject></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">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">compensation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">religion </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">imprisonment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1894 = 1973 (c) |
| 24.9.1973 |
| 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 |