Thursday 17 January 2019

Children of Blaenau Gwent - In 1842 a Royal Commission investigated the employment of children in heavy industry -- the results shocked middle-class Britain.



Some real history from the bottom up - Welsh History still needs to be written to honour all the struggles that have become invisible - John Jenkins reminded us at beginning of 2019 without knowing or understanding our Welsh past we have no future.

All the Welsh Histories we have read and that goes for Gwyn Alf Williams as well have been outsiders looking in - usually English or Welsh People writing top down Histories because that is the way the historical documents* take them.

A bottom up History of Wales based on the Land and changes in Land ownership and tenure still has to be written and will reveal an entirely different History of Wales especially during the Tudor period - those English lickspittles that passed themselves off as Welsh.

* Historical Documents were usually produced to legitimize English domination of Wales



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