South Wales Coalfield Spanish Civil War Photographs

Photographs relating to the Spanish Civil War. These photographs include photographs of Spanish Civil War volunteers, memorials and ceremonies to commemorate those who fought.

No information known/available at time of compliation.

This is an artificial collection. The photographs were collected in the South Wales Coalfield History Project, and originally held at the South Wales Miners' Library where they were arranged on a subject basis.

Access unrestricted unless stated otherwise.

Finding aid encoded by Julie Anderson March 2003.

An online finding aid is available at http://www.swan.ac.uk/swcc

Digital images of some of the photographs may be viewed at http://www.agor.org.uk/cwm/.

No publication without written permission from the Archivist.

The photographs are part of the South Wales Coalfield Collection (SWCC), held at Swansea University. SWCC was established in 1969 as an attempt to preserve the documentary records of the mining community of South Wales. Atthat time over one hundred mines had been closed since nationalisation, morepit closures were threatened and such records were in danger of beingdestroyed. Fortunately the officers of the National Union of Mineworkers (SouthWales Area) were aware of the problem and began the transfer of theirnon-current records to the Library at University College Swansea whileencouraging their constituent lodges to do the same. In 1971 the South WalesCoalfield History Project was set up, funded by the Social Science ResearchCouncil, to locate and collect manuscript and printed material of archivalsignificance. Such was the success of the Project which lasted until 1974, thatit was followed by a second from 1979-82.