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Aberfan disaster

July 2024

  • Rescue workers forming a chain to move debris, in an effort to reach children trapped in Pantglas Junior School, at Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, after it was engulfed by a sliding mountain of slag.

    My father’s role in investigating Aberfan – and the sight he could never forget

  • ‘A generation was completely wiped out’ … Gaynor Madgwick above Aberfan.

    How we survive
    A noise like thunder – then my classroom went black. How I lost my brother, sister and stability to the Aberfan disaster

December 2023

  • An aerial view of a landslide caused by a coal tip on a hillside above rows of terraced houses

    Wales fears another Aberfan as Westminster refuses to clean up tips

    Map shows 350 coal tips close to communities as UK government unwilling to take on costs

May 2023

  • G.B. ENGLAND. 1967. London. Queen Charlotte's Ball was the highlight of what was called "The debutante season" and "coming out". It had its roots in the 18th century when around 1780 the King, George III, held a ball for his wife’s birthday. The ball is known as the Queen Charlotte's Ball and it was proposed that the well bred and prettiest girls should attend to be presented at court to the Queen, in order that they could meet a suitable marriage partner, usually the brothers of the debs and known as the "debs delights". Only girls who had a relation who had herself been presented at court could come to the ball. When the Lord Chamberlain announced the end of the royal presentation ceremony in 1958, it provoked a record number of applications from distraught mothers. That year, 1,400 girls curtseyed in front of Queen Elizabeth II, over three days. The ball continued with the debs, bizarrely, curtseying to a giant cake in place of the Queen. The ball faded out in the 70's. 7

    Dolly Partons and debutantes: a Welshman’s view of Arizona – in pictures

    David Hurn moved from wet, socialist Wales to a scorching, rightwing state in the US – but his eye for life’s eccentricities remained unchanged

May 2022

  • Local men and the emergency services dig through the mud for survivors at The Pantglas Junior School, Aberfan on 21st October 1966.

    The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight review – astonishing adventures in precognition

    How the Aberfan disaster prompted one psychiatrist to launch a nationwide search for ‘seers’ who could predict the future

April 2022

  • Illustration of a man in a cinema seat, between red curtains, looking at mountains on a screen

    The vision collector: the man who used dreams and premonitions to predict the future

  • Emma Brockes

    I’m a rational person. Of course I don’t believe in the psychic world. And yet …

    Emma Brockes

March 2022

  • The effect of the Ford factory closure will have to Bridgend in south Wales, UK<br>COPY BY JOANNA PARTRIDGE Pictured: A Cofiwch Dryweryn graffiti (Remember Tryweryn) on a wall in Bridgend, Wales, UK. Wednesday 19 February 2020 Re: The effect of the Ford factory closure will have to Bridgend in south Wales, UK.

    Brittle With Relics by Richard King review – a portrait of Wales in flux

  • James Dean Bradfield, lead singer and lead guitarist of the band Manic Street Preachers in his studio in Wales. Bradfield has a new solo album called "Even in Exile" which is inspired by the Chilean Protest Singer and poet Victor Jara.

    Brittle With Relics by Richard King; Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales – reviews

February 2022

  • The Aberfan school clock

    Family of Aberfan rescuer give stopped clock to Welsh museum

    School clock recovered from the rubble 55 years ago will be put on display in Cardiff

September 2021

  • Tylorstown in Wales

    Welsh government calls on Westminster to help fund safety of coal tips

    Rhondda valley residents fearful after recent landslip and UK government pushed to share responsibility

May 2020

  • The scene of the Aberfan disaster in October 1966

    Aberfan teacher Rennie Williams dies aged 86

    Williams was recognised for her bravery after 1966 school disaster in which 144 people died

February 2020

  • Landslide

    Effects of Storm Dennis spark fears of Aberfan repeat in Wales

    Landslide leads to inspections of coal tip to avert similar disaster to that which killed 116 children in 1966

November 2019

  • Olivia Colman in The Crown

    How filming the agony of Aberfan for The Crown revealed a village still in trauma

    Peter Morgan, creator of the hit TV series, explains how the 1966 catastrophe raised questions about the nature of storytelling and the monarchy

January 2018

  • Photo issued by the CPS of books recovered from Elizabeth McGregor’s home

    Welsh librarian jailed after theft of Aberfan disaster files

    CPS lawyer notes ‘serious breach of trust’ by Elizabeth McGregor who stole hundreds of books from Pontypridd public library

July 2017

  • Prince Charles meets Red Cross volunteers after the Grenfell Tower fire in London

    Call for review of charity response to UK disasters in wake of Grenfell fire

    British Red Cross raises concerns over ‘complex’ process used to disperse money raised with large sums as yet unspent

October 2016

  • Flowers left outside the Aberfan Memorial Garden in Wales, on the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster.

    Guardian social
    Aberfan remembered, Trump polling and Brexit – our live look at the week as it happened

  • Prince Charles reads a message from the Queen to mark 50 years since the Aberfan disaster.

    Aberfan: Prince of Wales among those marking disaster's 50th anniversary

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Aberfan: a reporter's letter home reveals the true horror of the tragedy

    Roy Greenslade
  • Gillian Anderson in The Fall

    TV tonight
    Thursday’s best TV: The Fall; The Apprentice; Surviving Aberfan

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