Events Diary

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Current & forthcoming Event Series:

Miscellaneous 2025 : Wednesday 1st January to Wednesday 31st December, 2025

Exhibition: Coal Not Dole

Bristol Miners' Support Campaign Archive

Date: Mon 1st Dec to Wed 17th Dec, 2025

Venue: Bristol Central Reference Library, BS1 5TL

Series: Miscellaneous 2025

Bristol Radical History Group (BRHG) are putting an exhibition dedicated to the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike on display at Bristol Central Library this December. The exhibition celebrates the work of the Bristol Miners’ Support Campaign during the year long dispute. Over the last eighteen months BRHG has sponsored a project to collect and preserve documents and other materials from the campaign, one of many around the country that aimed to support the communities that were at the forefront of the […]

John Williams: The Making of a Miners’ Agent

Date: Wed 14th Jan, 2026

Time: 7:00pm

Venue: Newport Rising Hub, NP20 1JN

With: Ian Wright

Series: Miscellaneous 2025

John Williams was born in 1888 in Kenfig Hill and started work at the International Colliery in the Garw Valley at the age of thirteen. In 1922, Williams was selected for the paid post of agent for the Forest of Dean Miners Association (FDMA), which was the trade union representing Forest of Dean miners. Williams remained committed to representing the Forest miners until his retirement in 1953 and lived in the Forest from 1922 until he died in 1968. The social, political and industrial movements […]