History Websites

Provides information on the aims of the Association and details of the member societies.

Explore the cultural heritage of Wales through photographs, documents, artefacts and sound and moving image clips from libraries, museums and archives.

Contains links to Welsh timelines, history and rich cultural content.

Includes details of quarries, working methods, geology, tramways, remains and relics, with photo galleries.

Brief history with several pictures.

Aims to encourage young people in schools in Wales to take an interest in their heritage and the contribution made to it by their families and communities.

Established in 1969 to preserve the documentary records of the mining community of South Wales; information about their holdings, with background on the industry.

Describes his life and includes a timeline.

Presents social and political campaigning in Wales during the 20th century, organised by theme; includes digitised images of original documents, photographs, and sound and video files. [Prepared by the National Library of Wales, in Welsh, Spanish and English]

E-text of book by Lynn H. Nelson.

Welsh cultural history maintained by the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Photographs, poems and heritage records about collieries across the country.

Organisation encouraging the study and preservation of the Nonconformist heritage of Wales. It offers information and advice on maintaining and preserving chapel buildings, and records and studies chapel architecture. Bi-lingual.

Objectives include the research and preservation of Welsh mining history. Includes news and events.

Provides an archive of material about the Welsh Republican Movement since 1948.

Includes history, events and activities, facilities and access, opening times, admission prices, map and directions.

Formed to honour his contribution to the heritage of Wales and mark the six-hundredth anniversary of his revolt in 1400.

Article by A B Jones and B L Davies recounting the history of this important industry in Wales.

Online catalogue of archaeology, buildings, industrial and maritime heritage, based at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

An online searchable catalogue of document collections in record offices, universities, museums and libraries in Wales.

Account about the young Welsh Journalist who exposing the 1932-33 Holodomo. Includes biography to his death at 1933. including review in 2003, his articles from the Soviet Union. rural Wales and other countries.

Highlights society meetings and publications, as well as some historical information about Aberdare and the Cynon Valley.