The South Wales Miners’ Library was opened in October 1973 to house material collected by the South Wales Coalfield History Project. Funded by the Social Science Research Council, the project’s aim was to preserve oral, visual and written evidence of coal mining and miners in South Wales at a time…Continue reading “About”
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Italian migration and the Italian cafés of South Wales
This edition of the Miners’ Library blog examines Italian migration into Wales in the twentieth century through the lens of…
An Abundance of Riches: Item No.5 Underground Poland Speaks
Beyond Coal: the SWCC and Its Concealed Seams “SWCC” stands for the South Wales Coalfield Collection. This internationally significant collection…
An Abundance of Riches: Item No.4 Civil Defence Handbook
Beyond Coal: the SWCC and Its Concealed Seams “SWCC” stands for the South Wales Coalfield Collection. This internationally significant collection…
