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A brown horse stands on a track; he has a mask covering his face and is pulling a cart behind him and there's a green shed to one side
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Welsh colliery horses

6 October 2023
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Uncovering our Collections: Half a Million Records now Online

26 March 2018
Thomas Jones
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Esyllwg’s Sad Fate

1 March 2017
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The Letter in the Lamp: The South Wales Coal-Miners’ Hunger March

15 July 2016
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The scout flag that went South with Scott

14 June 2013
Bodies of the victims being recovered from the mine
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Senghenydd Disaster: Mine inspector's notebook

17 May 2013
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‘Miners’ lives at 5½p each’: The Government Enquiry into the 1913 Senghenydd mine disaster

6 July 2012
Albert Medal of the First Class, to William Beith.
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The Albert Medal and the Tynewydd Inundation

25 June 2012
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The Tynewydd Mining Disaster

19 June 2012
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Mission accomplished

19 June 2012
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