‘The Final Battle: The South Wales Miners, 1979-1985’ by Dr Ben Curtis

'The Final Battle: The South Wales Miners, 1979-1985' by Dr Ben Curtis

6:00 pm-7:00 pm | 03/02/2025

Join us as we mark the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike of 1984/85 with Dr Ben Curtis as he looks at events in the coalfield immediately prior to, and during, the Strike.

Dr Ben Curtis is a social and public historian of modern Wales and Britain, specialising in mining history. He is a Postdoctoral Research Officer at Swansea University and an Honorary Research Fellow in Social and Labour History at the University of Wolverhampton.  He is the author of ‘The South Wales Miners, 1964–1985’.

The talk will be accompanied by a display of documents from the Glamorgan Archives collection relating to the Strike.

This event will be held in person at Glamorgan Archives.

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Leckwith,
CF11 8AW

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