Events Diary

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You can also see a list of Event Series and a list of all the events we have ever done listed chronologically.

Current & forthcoming Event Series:

John Williams: The Making of a Miners’ Agent

Date: , 2026

Time:

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 […]
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Exhibition: Coal Not Dole

Bristol Miners' Support Campaign Archive

Date: to , 2026

Time: to

Venue: Bristol Archives, BS1 6XN

Series: Not in a series

Bristol Radical History Group (BRHG) are putting an exhibition dedicated to the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike on display at Bristol Archives over February. 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 strike. It […]
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The Centenary of the 1926 General Strike

Date: , 2026

Time:

Venue: Newport Rising Hub, NP20 1JN

With: Chris Bowkett

Series: Not in a series

May 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the nine day ‘General Strike’. This solidarity action was an attempt by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to prevent wage reductions and increasingly bad working conditions for 1.2 million coal miners who had already been locked-out by their employers. Around 1.7 million workers, mainly in transport and heavy industry, responded and the country was confronted with explicit class war. “I will not see the strikers’ own food left to rot!” Chris Bowkett from the […]
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