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Sgint – Sherman Cymru
February 10, 2012 15:02 -
AWEMA – a failure of governance
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The show must go on
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The Welsh re-Development Agency
February 9, 2012 07:02 -
An excuse to do nothing
February 8, 2012 07:02
Posts Tagged ‘industrial history’
What would Clem have done?
Clement Attlee’s government faced a financial crisis every bit as serious as today’s, yet managed to deal with it while also creating the welfare state and the NHS. Can we learn from his administration?
Let’s stop our story from crumbling away
Merthyr Tydfil has a rich industrial heritage that survives today through much of its architecture. Yet many of the most important such buildings are now in a parlous state
Built by migrants, not druids
“National identity” is the foundation myth of most hostility to immigration. It is particularly egregious in Wales, a country that would not even exist but for the mass migration of the industrial revolution, and which bears such responsibility for today’s population movements
Is Dylan selling the Tories short on manufacturing?
The Conservatives didn’t eviscerate Welsh manufacturing – at least not after 1982
The sound of our soul
They are often dismissed by our marketeers, but the male voice choir reaches deep into the cultural identity of industrial South Wales, and enjoys mass audiences around the world. No wonder, then, that they are attracting a new generation of singers
Love and loss in the time of industry
Ghosts in Armour, a photography-led exhibition in Newport that documented the end of the Whiteheads factory in the city, became a phenomenon among its ex-workers when it was staged at The Riverfront. Its creators explain how it became a social history of a small part of industrialised south Wales, and why we should remember the communities that heavy industry created
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