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Aberaman
Aberaman is a village near Aberdare in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales.
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Abercwmboi
Abercwmboi is a village in the Welsh county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in Wales, United Kingdom.
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Aberdare (UK Parliament constituency)
Aberdare was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Aberdare Athletic F.C.
Aberdare Athletic Football Club were a Welsh football club founded in 1893 and based in Aberdare.
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Aberdare Community School
Aberdare Community School (Ysgol Gymunedol Aberdâr) is a secondary school located in Aberdare, Wales.
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Aberdare East
Aberdare East is a local government community and electoral ward in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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Aberdare Local Board of Health
Aberdare Local Board of Health was established in 1854 in response to the 1848 Public Health Act, and a report on the sanitary condition of the town conducted by Thomas Webster Rammell.
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Aberdare Park
Aberdare Park (Welsh: Parc Aberdâr) is a well-preserved Victorian public park located in the village of Trecynon, near the town of Aberdare in South Wales.
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Aberdare railway station
Aberdare railway station (Aberdâr) is a railway station serving the town of Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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Aberdare RFC
Aberdare Rugby Union Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in the town Aberdare in South Wales.
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Aberdare School Board
The Aberdare School Board was formed in 1871 and consisted of thirteen members elected for a period of three years.
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Aberdare strike 1857–58
The Aberdare strike of 1857-8 was one of the first significant industrial disputes in the history of the steam coal trade of South Wales.
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Aberdare Town F.C.
Aberdare Town Football Club is a Welsh football club that currently play in the Welsh Football League Division One.
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Aberdare Urban District Council
Aberdare Urban District Council was a local authority in Aberdare, Wales.
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Abernant, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Abernant is a small village north-east of the town of Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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Admiralty
The Admiralty, originally known as the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy firstly in the Kingdom of England, secondly in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire.
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Alun Lewis (poet)
Alun Lewis (1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944) was a Welsh poet.
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Anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk (or anarchist punk) is punk rock that promotes anarchism.
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.
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Ann Clwyd
Ann Clwyd Roberts (born 21 March 1937) is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cynon Valley since 1984.
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Athletic Ground (Aberdare)
The Athletic Ground, also known as Aberdare Stadium and the Ynys Stadium, was a mixed sports venue in Aberdare, Wales, which was predominantly used for football.
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Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres.
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Baron Aberdare
Baron Aberdare, of Duffryn in the County of Glamorgan, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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Bethan Sayed
Bethan Sayed AM (née Jenkins, born 9 December 1981), is a Welsh politician, born in Aberdare, Wales, who has represented the South Wales West Region for Plaid Cymru as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales since 2007.
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Bethania, Aberdare
Bethania was a Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, which seated 550 people.
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Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.
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British and Foreign School Society
The British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) offers charitable aid to educational projects in the UK and around the world by funding schools, other charities and educational bodies.
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Cairn
A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones.
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Calfaria, Aberdare
Calfaria Baptist Chapel, Aberdare, was one of the largest baptist churches in the South Wales Valleys and the oldest in the Aberdare valley.
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Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Celtic Britons
The Britons, also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from the British Iron Age into the Middle Ages, at which point their culture and language diverged into the modern Welsh, Cornish and Bretons (among others).
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Charles Stanton
Charles Butt Stanton (7 April 1873 – 6 December 1946) was a British politician, who served as an MP from 1915-22.
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Church in Wales
The Church in Wales (Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is the Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Coleg y Cymoedd
Coleg y Cymoedd (English: College of The Valleys) is a further education college located at five main campuses across Rhondda Cynon Taf, and Caerphilly, Wales.
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Coliseum Theatre (Aberdare)
The Coliseum Theatre is a performing arts venue in the village of Trecynon, near the town of Aberdare, Wales.
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Community (Wales)
A community (cymuned) is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales.
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Confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel.
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Crass
Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in 1977 who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life and a resistance movement.
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Crawshay Bailey
Crawshay Bailey (1789 – 9 January 1872) was an English industrialist who became one of the great iron-masters of Wales.
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Crimean War
The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
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Culture of Wales
Wales is a country in Western Europe that has a distinctive culture including its own language, customs, holidays and music.
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Cwmaman
Cwmaman is a former coal mining village near Aberdare, Wales.
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Cwmbach
Cwmbach is a village and community near Aberdare, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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Cwmdare
Cwmdare (Cwmdâr) is a village near Aberdare, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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Cyfarthfa
Cyfarthfa is a community of the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales.
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Cynon Valley
Cynon Valley is one of many former coal mining valleys within the South Wales Valleys of Wales.
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Cynon Valley (Assembly constituency)
Cynon Valley is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales.
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Cynon Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
Cynon Valley (Cwm Cynon) is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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D. A. Thomas
David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, PC (26 March 1856 – 3 July 1918) was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician.
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Dai Young
David 'Dai' Young (born 26 July 1967) is a Welsh former rugby union, and rugby league footballer of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, rugby union coach of the 2000s and 2010s, and is currently Director of Rugby at Wasps RFC.
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David Davies (industrialist)
David Davies (18 December 1818 – 20 July 1890) was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1886.
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David Davis, Blaengwawr
David Davis, Blaengwawr, Aberdare was a leading figure in the South Wales coal industry and a founder of the steam coal trade.
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David Davis, Maesyffynnon (coal owner)
David Davis, Maesyffynnon, (1821–1884), son of David Davis, Blaengwawr was a prominent Welsh coal owner and public figure.
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David Jones (rugby)
David "Tarw" Jones (1881- 21 January 1933) (also known as Dai Jones) was a Welsh dual-code international rugby union, and rugby league footballer.
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David Morgan (trade unionist)
David Morgan (Dai o'r Nant; 14 February 1840 – 5 July 1900) was a Welsh miners' agent and trade unionist who played a prominent role in the history of industrial relations in the South Wales Coalfield from the 1870s until his death in 1900.
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David Williams (coal owner)
David Williams (1809–1863), known by his bardic name Alaw Goch was a prominent coal-owner in the Aberdare valley and also a keen supporter of Welsh culture and the eisteddfod.
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Dyfed
Dyfed is a preserved county of Wales. It was created on 1 April 1974, as an amalgamation of the three pre-existing counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. It was abolished twenty-two years later, on 1 April 1996, when the three original counties were reinstated, Cardiganshire being renamed Ceredigion the following day. The name "Dyfed" is retained for certain ceremonial and other purposes. It is a mostly rural county in southwestern Wales with a coastline on the Irish Sea and the Bristol Channel.
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English Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league competition featuring professional football clubs from England and Wales.
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Glamorgan
Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire, (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg) is one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county of Wales.
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Glamorgan County Council
Glamorgan County Council was established in 1889 together with the administrative county of Glamorganshire under the Local Government Act 1888.
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Glamorgan County Council election, 1889
The first election to the '''Glamorgan County Council''' were held on 17 January 1889.
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Glamorganshire Canal
The Glamorganshire Canal was a valley-side canal, in South Wales, UK, running from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff.
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Gorsedd stones
Gorsedd Stones (Cerrig yr Orsedd.) are groups of standing stones constructed for the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
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Goscombe John
Sir William Goscombe John (21 February 1860 – 15 December 1952) was a Welsh sculptor.
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Griffith Rhys Jones
Griffith Rhys Jones, or Caradog as he was commonly known (21 December 1834 – 4 December 1897), was a Welsh conductor of the famous 'Côr Mawr' of some 460 voices (the South Wales Choral Union), which twice won first prize at The Crystal Palace choral competitions in London in 1872 and 1873.
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Heat of combustion
The heating value (or energy value or calorific value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it.
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Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, (16 April 181525 February 1895) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary (1868–1873) and as Lord President of the Council.
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Henry Richard
Rev.
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Hirwaun
Hirwaun (Welsh "Long Meadow") is a village and community at the north end of the Cynon Valley in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales.
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Home Secretary
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, normally referred to as the Home Secretary, is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office.
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Ian Evans (rugby player)
Ian Evans (born 4 October 1984) is a Wales international rugby union player.
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Iestyn ap Gwrgant
Iestyn ap Gwrgant (or Jestyn ap Gwrgant) (Justin, son of Gwrgant) (1014 – 1093) was the last ruler of the Welsh kingdom of Morgannwg, which encompassed the counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.
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Ieuan Rhys
Ieuan Rhys (24 December 1961) is a Welsh actor.
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Independent Labour Party
The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893, when the Liberals appeared reluctant to endorse working-class candidates, representing the interests of the majority.
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Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd (born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh actor.
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Ironworks
An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.
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Jim Mills (rugby league)
Jim "Big Jim" Mills (born 29 September 1944) is a Welsh former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
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Jo Walton
Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet.
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John Griffith (priest)
John Griffith was among the most prominent clergymen in industrial south Wales during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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John Morgan (comedian)
John Morgan (September 21, 1930 – November 15, 2004) was a Welsh-born Canadian comedian.
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John Nixon (mining engineer)
John Nixon (10 May 1815 – 3 June 1899) was an English mining engineer and colliery proprietor and an influential figure in the development of the South Wales coalfield and export business.
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Keir Hardie
James Keir Hardie (15 August 185626 September 1915) was a Scottish socialist, politician, and trade unionist.
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Kelly Jones
Kelly Jones (born 3 June 1974) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, lead guitarist and director and the lead singer of the band Stereophonics.
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Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the most complex experimental facility ever built and the largest single machine in the world.
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Liberal-Labour (UK)
The Liberal–Labour movement refers to the practice of local Liberal associations accepting and supporting candidates who were financially maintained by trade unions.
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Liberation Society
The Liberation Society was an organisation in Victorian England that campaigned for disestablishment of the Church of England.
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List of bus stations in Wales
This is a list of bus stations in Wales.
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List of twin towns and sister cities in the United Kingdom
This is a list of places in the United Kingdom having standing links to local communities in other countries.
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Llandaff
Llandaff (Llandaf); from llan 'church' and Taf, is a district, community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales.
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Llwydcoed
Llwydcoed is a community and small village north of the Cwm Cynon, near the town of Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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Loughor
Loughor (Casllwchwr) is a town in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales.
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Lyn Evans
Lyn Evans CBE (born Lyndon Rees Evans in 1945), is a Welsh scientist who served as the project leader of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
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Mark Parry (musician)
Mark Parry is the former lead guitarist and for the Canadian based indie rock group The Manvils and Vancouver based band Red Vienna.
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Merthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful) is a large town in Wales, with a population of about 63,546, situated approximately north of Cardiff.
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Merthyr Tydfil (UK Parliament constituency)
Merthyr Tydfil was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan.
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Mid Glamorgan
Mid Glamorgan (Morgannwg Ganol) is a preserved county of Wales.
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Mihangel Morgan
Mihangel Morgan (born Michael Finch on 7 December 1955 in Trecynon, near Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff) is a Welsh author.
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Miner
A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, or other mineral from the earth through mining.
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Montreal
Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.
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National Assembly for Wales
The National Assembly for Wales (Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru; commonly known as the Welsh Assembly) is a devolved parliament with power to make legislation in Wales.
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National Eisteddfod of Wales
The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru) is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.
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Nonconformist
In English church history, a nonconformist was a Protestant who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England.
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Nonconformity in Wales
Nonconformity was a significant influence in Wales from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
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Normans
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.
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Patrick Hannan (presenter)
Patrick Hannan MBE(26 September 1941 – 11 October 2009) was a Welsh political journalist, author and television and radio presenter.
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PD Ports
PD Ports is a Middlesbrough, UK headquartered port, shipping and logistics company; owner of Teesport, and ports at Hartlepool, Howden and Keadby; with additional operations at the Port of Felixstowe, Port of Immingham, and Port of Hull.
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Penywaun
Penywaun is a community, electoral ward and north-western suburb of Aberdare in the Cynon Valley within the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru (officially Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales, often referred to simply as Plaid) is a social-democratic political party in Wales advocating for Welsh independence from the United Kingdom within the European Union.
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R. Ifor Parry
Robert Ifor Parry (1908-1975) was a Congregationalist minister and schoolmaster at Aberdare.
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Radicals (UK)
The Radicals were a loose parliamentary political grouping in Great Britain and Ireland in the early to mid-19th century, who drew on earlier ideas of radicalism and helped to transform the Whigs into the Liberal Party.
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Ravensburg
Ravensburg is a town in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg.
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Rees Hopkin Rhys
Rees Hopkin Rhys (19 March 1819 - 1899) was an industrialist, landowner and prominent local government figure in the Aberdare area for much of the nineteenth century.
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Reginald John Campbell
Reginald John Campbell (29 August 1867 – 1 March 1956) was a British Congregationalist and Anglican divine who became a popular preacher while the minister at the City Temple and a leading exponent of 'The New Theology' movement of 1907.
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Rhian Samuel
Rhian Samuel, born in Aberdare, Wales in 1944, is a Welsh composer.
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Rhondda Cynon Taf
Rhondda Cynon Taf, or RCT, is a county borough in the south of Wales.
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Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council (Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Rhondda Cynon Taf) is the governing body for Rhondda Cynon Taf, one of the Principal Areas of Wales.
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Rhys ap Tewdwr
Rhys ap Tewdwr (before 1065 – 1093) was a king of Deheubarth in Wales and member of the Dinefwr dynasty, a branch descended from Rhodri the Great.
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Richard Fothergill (politician)
Richard Fothergill (8 November 182224 June 1903) was an English ironmaster, a coalmine-owner in Wales and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880.
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Richard Jones (Stereophonics)
Richard Jones (born 23 May 1974) is the bassist, pianist and backing vocalist for the Welsh rock band Stereophonics, playing alongside Kelly Jones (no relation), Adam Zindani and Jamie Morrison.
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River Cynon
The River Cynon (Afon Cynon) is a river in South Wales and is one of the larger tributaries of the River Taff.
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Robert Fitzhamon
Robert Fitzhamon (died March 1107), or Robert FitzHamon, Seigneur de Creully in the Calvados region and Torigny in the Manche region of Normandy, was the first Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, southern Wales.
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Rose Davies
Rose Davies (16 September 1882 — 13 December 1958) was a Welsh teacher, feminist, and labour activist, and an elected local official associated with the Independent Labour Party.
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Rowland Fothergill
Rowland Fothergill (1794- 19 September 1871) was an ironmaster in South Wales, whose main industrial interests lay in the Aberdare district.
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Roy Noble
Roy Noble, OBE, DL, O.St.J (born 1942) is a Welsh radio and television broadcaster.
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Royal Canadian Air Farce
The Royal Canadian Air Farce is a comedy troupe best known for their radio and television series which were broadcast in Canada by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Rugby league
Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.
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Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Saron, Aberaman
Saron, Aberaman was a Welsh Independent (Congregationalist) chapel in Davies Street, Aberaman, formed as an initiative of the David Price of Siloa, Aberdare, soon after the development of Aberaman as an industrial settlement as a result of the activities of Crawshay Bailey and David Davis, Blaengwawr.
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Seion, Cwmaman
Seion, Cwmaman is a Welsh Baptist church, originally established in 1859.
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Siloa, Aberdare
Siloa, Aberdare was the largest of the Welsh Independent, or Congregationalist, chapels in Aberdare.
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Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet
Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, JP (18 March 1814 – 23 December 1893) was a mining engineer and self-made businessman from Gateshead in the North-East of England.
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South Wales Valleys
The South Wales Valleys (Cymoedd De Cymru) are a group of industrialised valleys in South Wales.
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St Elvan's Church, Aberdare
St Elvan's Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the centre of the town of Aberdare.
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St Fagan's Church, Trecynon
St Fagan's Church (Eglwys Sain Ffagan) is a Grade II-listed Anglican church in the village of Trecynon near Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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St John the Baptist School, Aberdare
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St John's Church, Aberdare
St John the Baptist is an ancient parish church in the centre of the town of Aberdare, Wales.
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Steamship
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically drive (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.
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Stereophonics
Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band that formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in the Cynon Valley.
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Stuart Cable
Stuart Cable (19 May 1970 – 7 June 2010) was a Welsh rock drummer and broadcaster, best known as the original drummer for the band Stereophonics.
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Swansea
Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.
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Taff Vale Railway
The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr, and to connect them with docks in Cardiff.
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Tarian y Gweithiwr
Tarian Y Gweithiwr was a weekly, Welsh language newspaper that was published in Aberdare by Mills, Lynch, & Davies between 1875 and 1934.
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The Manvils
The Manvils are a Canadian rock band from Vancouver.
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Thomas Price (Baptist minister)
Thomas Price (17 April 1820 – 29 February 1888) was a leading figure in the political and religious life of Victorian Wales and minister of Calfaria Baptist Chapel, Aberdare.
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Thomas Webster Rammell
Thomas Webster Rammell was born in 1814 on the Isle of Thanet, Kent, United Kingdom.
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Tinplate
Tinplate consists of sheets of steel, coated with a thin layer of tin.
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Torquay United F.C.
Torquay United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Torquay, Devon, England.
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Treachery of the Blue Books
The Treachery of the Blue Books or Treason of the Blue Books (Brad y Llyfrau Gleision) was the publication in 1847 of the three-volume Reports of the commissioners of enquiry into the state of education in Wales, which caused uproar in Wales for disparaging the Welsh; being particularly scathing in its view of the Welsh language, nonconformity and the immorality of the Welsh people in general.
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Trecynon
Trecynon is a village near Aberdare situated in the Cynon Valley, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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UK miners' strike (1984–85)
The miners' strike of 1984–85 was a major industrial action to shut down the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures.
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United Kingdom census, 2001
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.
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United Kingdom census, 2011
A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Wales national rugby league team
The Wales national rugby league team represents Wales in international rugby league football matches.
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Ward (electoral subdivision)
A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes.
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Welsh Labour
Welsh Labour (Llafur Cymru) is the part of the United Kingdom Labour Party that operates in Wales.
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.
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William Abraham (trade unionist)
William Abraham (14 June 1842 – 14 May 1922), universally known by his bardic name, Mabon, was a Welsh trade unionist and Liberal/Labour politician, and a member of parliament (MP) from 1885 to 1920.
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William Williams (Carw Coch)
William Williams (6 March 1808 – 26 September 1872), known by his bardic name, Carw Coch (literally Red Stag), was a prominent literary figure in Aberdare, and south Wales generally, during the mid-nineteenth century, and an important figure in the development of the eisteddfod movement.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Y Gwladgarwr
Y Gwladgarwr ("The Patriot") was a liberal Welsh language newspaper, established in 1858, published weekly and distributed around the districts of South Wales.
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Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun
Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun is a Welsh Medium comprehensive school in the Cynon Valley in the village of Penywaun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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Ystradyfodwg
Ystradyfodwg (Vale of Tyfodwg) was an ancient upland parish in Glamorgan, Wales.
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1904–1905 Welsh revival
The 1904–1905 Welsh Revival was the largest Christian revival in Wales during the 20th century.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdare
