DVD: The Welsh Miner – The History of Miners and Mining in Wales

This DVD is comprised of 3 hours of interviews, reenactments, and archival footage which explore the experience of the Welsh coal miner and the history of mining in Wales from the seventeenth century to the collapse of the British coal industry in the 1980s.

Contents

• A Special Place to Live
• Down the Pit
• At the Beginning
• Deep Mining Begins
• Admiralty Days
• Vast Wealth and Conflict
• Education and Confrontation
• Struggle and More Struggle
• The Great War
• The National Strike
• Depression, War and Peace
• Illusion and Disillusion
• The Angry Seventies
• The 1980s -To the Bitter End
• The Aftermath