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Annual Autumn Day, Sat. 12th Nov 2011

52nd Volume of Morgannwg, the Glamorgan History Society Journal.

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Each year the Society holds two events - the Annual General Meeting and the Autumn Day School.

The AGM is held in May and the business meeting is followed by a talk given by a guest speaker. Arrangements for the venue and speaker are made in alternate years by the Secretary of Glamorgan History Society and the Secretary of the South Wales Record Society, the two

Societies sharing the venue for their AGM and their members joining together for the talk.

The Autumn Day School is held annually on the second Saturday in November and has traditionally been held at The Orangery, Margam Park, but this year it is being held at The St Donat’s Arts Centre. The whole day is devoted to a particular theme with relevance to Glamorgan. Talks are given by three or four guest speakers and the day's programme includes time for discussion.

The annual Autumn Day will be held on Saturday 12 November 2011 at St Donats Arts Centre (note the change of venue), and the theme of the day school this year will be -

Unrest and Dissent

10.00 Coffee and bookstalls

10.25 Chairman’s welcome (Professor Prys Morgan)

10.30 The Rt Hon Dr Kim Howells

The role of the strike in south Wales: some personal reflections

The speaker is a well known and popular speaker and broadcaster whose career enables him to address the subject with authority. As an official of the NUM he was actively involved in events in the coal industry in the 1980s and subsequently served as MP for Pontypridd until standing down in 2010. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 2009.

11.45 Mr Rod Cooper

The two-legged fox: rural criminality in Victorian Gower

An examination of the life of one petty (and not-so-petty) felon in a rural Glamorgan village in the mid 19th century. There are tragi-comic aspects to this story but it also gives a view of the impact of criminal activity on small communities as well as showing the consequences for a serial offender under a supposedly harsh judicial system.

1.00 Lunch (finger buffet) and bookstalls

2.15 Professor Chris Williams

'For National Safety': J. M. Staniforth and the 1921 coal dispute

The talk will examine the momentous 1921 dispute which saw the return of the coal industry to private ownership. This was marked by the threat (and then collapse) of a strike by the Triple Alliance of coal, railway and transport unions, by a three-month long miners' lockout which in many ways foreshadowed the trauma of 1926, and by the eventual defeat of the miners who went back to work on much reduced wages. This often overlooked episode in industrial relations was monitored and depicted by the veteran cartoonist J. M. Staniforth of the Western Mail and News of the World, and the talk will consider the events of 1921 through the lens of 'the Welsh Tenniel'.

3.30 Drawing of the Raffle

Once again John Adams will be running the raffle. If you feel able to do so, please bring a suitable prize. Funds raised in this way all go towards covering the cost of the event. Thank you very much.

4.15 Disperse

The attendance fee will be £30.00 per head to include a finger buffet lunch and tea/coffee and biscuits available throughout theday.

Because of the charging system at this venue it is not possible to offer a reduction to those who do not wish to take lunch.

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