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Articles / Erthyglau

Articles

Articles from our early journals are posted here for enjoyment without charge.

Cefn Golau Cemetery
Diseases of 19c Tredegar
Query club WConwayBevan2
Walter John Conway
Brynmawr market hall
Brynmawr market hall
Brynmawr's Market Hall
Patagonia
Welsh Patagonia and Gwent
Farming in the Blaenau
How the Iron Masters Transformed the Blaenau
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Little Johnny - seven years working underground as a child
The Brynmawr Experiment
The Brynmawr Experiment.
Section of 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift' by Lady Butler 1880 Elizabeth Thompson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Unsung Hero of Rorke's Drift Buried in Blaenau Gwent
marine colliery cwm
A trip down Marine Colliery, Cwm in 1959
Samuel Homfray Senior and Bedwellty House
Photo © Robin Drayton cc-by-sa/2.0
Samuel Homfray 11 of Bedwellty House and Ironworks
Tredegar's medieval brooch
Tredegar's Medieval Brooch

Snippets of Information

The Moose Lodge at Brynmawr

Roy Francis – A Sporting Hero

Jones the Watchmaker 

Early Education in Brynmawr

Putting in the Coal

Lists of Articles and Publications by Author

Articles and Publications by Dr. Colin Morgan
Articles and Publications by Eifion Lloyd Davies

KEEPING WELSH HISTORY ALIVE

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The National Health Service was created on July 5th 1948, an embodiment of the ideal that quality healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth or social status.

On the day that Aneurin Bevan, as Health Secretary, opened Park Hospital in Manchester it was the fulfilment of an enormously inspirational dream to bring good healthcare to every Individual in the UK. For the first time in British history, the provision of doctors, nurses dentists, pharmacists, opticians and hospitals was brought under the auspices of a single organisation that was ' free for all at the point of delivery.

The underlying philosophy was clear: the health service was intended to be freely available to everyone. It was to be financed in its entirety from public taxation, which meant that everyone contributed to it directly from their salary and according to their means. It was Aneurin Bevan's most famous achievement as Minister of Health, it was he who initiated its establishment and he tendered his resignation when a subsequent government proposed to charge patients for eyeglasses and dentures.
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