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A selection of folk narratives from the extensive collections in the sound archive at St Fagans
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A selection of art works from Art Collections Online.
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Historic Buildings at St. Fagans National History Museum
Details on over forty original buildings from various historical periods in Wales re-erected in our 100-acre parkland.
Under the Golden Fern
Oral evidence from the archives from St Fagans: National History Museum
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Articles: 'Miners lives at 5½p each': The Government Enquiry into the 1913 Senghenydd mine disaster
6 July 2012[image: A mother and child waiting]
The final death toll from the Senghenydd mine disaster on 14th October 1913 reached 439 men. Some of the bodies were never recovered. It was the worst mining disaster in the history of the British coalfields.Articles: The Albert Medal and the Tynewydd Inundation
25 June 2012[image: Isaac Pride, wearing his Albert Medal]
In April 1877, the success of a ten days' operation to rescue four men and a boy trapped by floodwaters in a South Wales colliery raised an awkward question: how to reward the rescuers?Articles: Mission accomplished
19 June 2012[image: Tynewydd Disaster]
The Chilean mine rescue of 2010 reminded many of a similar incident in the Rhondda Valleys over 130 years before. On the 11th April 1877 Tynewydd Colliery became flooded by water, triggering a desperate rescue effort to save the fourteen miners trapped underground.
Articles: James Pyke Thompson (1846-1897)
1 December 2011Articles: Children in Mines
11 April 2011
Articles
Articles: 'Miners lives at 5½p each': The Government Enquiry into the 1913 Senghenydd mine disaster
6 July 2012[image: A mother and child waiting]
The final death toll from the Senghenydd mine disaster on 14th October 1913 reached 439 men. Some of the bodies were never recovered. It was the worst mining disaster in the history of the British coalfields.Articles: The Albert Medal and the Tynewydd Inundation
25 June 2012[image: Isaac Pride, wearing his Albert Medal]
In April 1877, the success of a ten days' operation to rescue four men and a boy trapped by floodwaters in a South Wales colliery raised an awkward question: how to reward the rescuers?Articles: Mission accomplished
19 June 2012[image: Tynewydd Disaster]
The Chilean mine rescue of 2010 reminded many of a similar incident in the Rhondda Valleys over 130 years before. On the 11th April 1877 Tynewydd Colliery became flooded by water, triggering a desperate rescue effort to save the fourteen miners trapped underground.
Articles: James Pyke Thompson (1846-1897)
1 December 2011Articles: Children in Mines
11 April 2011
Galleries
Galleries: Wales and Slavery
4 April 2011[image: Slavery]
Most societies have exploited slave labour at some stage in their history. This is also true of Wales.
Galleries: Botanical illustrations
13 July 2007[image: ]
A selection of sumptuous botanical illustrations from the collections at Amgueddfa Cymru.