10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABERFAN»
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Aberfan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Aberfan: Government and Disasters
First comprehensive study of the 1966 Aberfan disaster using documents previously kept secret under the 30 years rule. Also examines other major disasters such as: Zeebrugge, Hillsborough, Pipa Alpha.
Iain McLean, Martin Johnes, 2000
Beyond the town of Aberfan, the Welsh autumn still shimmered on the emerald
patterns of the valley. Only yesterday these meadows had echoed with the
ringing laughter of childhood. Now there was no laughter, for the schoolchildren
of ...
They are high on a green hill overlooking Aberfan and, marked by a great swatch
of color from the thousands of fresh flowers, they can be seen from the main road
clear across the valley. Then, just a bit farther on, not much higher than the ...
ABERFAN. CONTINUED bone broken. Here, feel the dent in it. A compound
fracture here" — he lifted a sleeve and revealed whitened scar tissue on his
forearm. Then he touched his nose: "Me snitch was battered, me leg here was
broken, ...
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The Power of Premonitions
August 28, 2007. http://www.occupationalhazards.com/News/ Article/70536/
Legislators_Seek_Investigation_into_Utah_Mine_Disaster. aspx. Accessed
October 15, 2007. “the villagers ofAberfan, Wales, discovered”: The Aberfan
Disaster.
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Aberfan: the days after : a journey in pictures
Full of sensitive photographs that do not shock but seek to suggest lives beyond their representations, this pictorial journey commemorates figures with the dignity of being people rather than victims.
I. C. Rapoport, National Library of Wales, 2005
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Britain's Changing Environment
Garrett Nagle. Case study: The Aberfan disaster, 1966 Figure 3. 19 A plan view of
Aberfan, the spoil heaps and the landslide Source: after Waltham, 1978; Perry, A,
1981, Environmental hazards in the British Isles, George Allen and Unwin ...
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The Routledge Handbook of Emotions and Mass Media
(Daily Mail, 'Disasterjudge stopped by angry miners,' October 26, 1966) The
anger became ritualized in the Aberfan coverage with protests and petitions. For
example, Aberfan parents boycotted temporary classrooms built in the shadow of
a ...
Katrin Doveling, Christian von Scheve, Elly A. Konijn, 2010
An Aberfan constable carries a child rescued from the rubble. 146 others, most of
them children, perished. AT 9:15 A.M. on Friday, 21 October, 1966, the tip at
Aberfan slipped. Then, as the world now knows, a mountain of muddy coal mine
...
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Playing on the Periphery: Sport, Identity and Memory
Sport, Identity and Memory Tara Brabazon. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24
25 26 27 29 30 32 M. Johnes, 'Play up! Play up! And play the game!' History
Review, September 2001, 26. G. Madgewick, Aberfan: struggling out of the
darkness ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABERFAN»
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Aberfan is used in the context of the following news items.
Concert by Ynysowen Male Choir raises over £1000 for Poppy Appeal
The Ynysowen Male Choir, from Aberfan in South Wales, came down to All Saints Church in Torquay on Saturday, June 27, and performed ... «Torquay Herald Express, Jul 15»
The winning pictures from the 2015 Cardiff Photomarathon are …
The Junior Award was given to Alys and Emily Steed from Aberfan. Mathew Talfan, Photomarathon founder and one of the judges said: ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
Revlon Girl: Aberfan play makes stunning impression in London's …
News of the Aberfan disaster transcended borders and languages such is the universal shadow of grief cast by losing a child. It is amongst the ... «South Wales Evening Post, Jun 15»
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... the Cuban missile crisis, Martin Luther King and, on the home front, England's 1966 World Cup triumph, the Aberfan disaster and much more. «ChronicleLive, Jun 15»
Swansea Valley actress's heartfelt Aberfan role in memory of Harry
WHEN the curtain comes up on a new play based on the Aberfan disaster Swansea Valley actress Michelle McTernan will be more emotional ... «South Wales Evening Post, Jun 15»
Fears of 'another Aberfan'
FEARS have been expressed that there could be an Aberfan-style disaster in Cardigan if health chiefs go ahead with plans to build a new ... «cambrian-news.co.uk, May 15»
Cardiff Remembered: New book to look back at Aberfan disaster
Cardiff writer Louise Walsh, who came in for a lot of praise when her first book Fighting Pretty was published in 2008 (Seren £7.99), is a stickler ... «WalesOnline, Apr 15»
'Aberfan': one woman's elegy for a Welsh village's young disaster …
Rescue workers continue their search for victims of the Aberfan disaster, in South Wales, where 144 people lost their lives after part of the ... «The Recorder, Apr 15»
Grandmother killed in horror A470 crash had lost brother and sister …
A GRANDMOTHER killed in a horror crash with a teenage driver had witnessed the Aberfan disaster as a child - and was just yards away when ... «South Wales Evening Post, Mar 15»
Brecon Beacons A470 crash: Family reveal gran killed in crash had …
A grandmother killed in a horror crash involving a teenage driver had witnessed her younger brother and sister die in the Aberfan disaster. «mirror.co.uk, Mar 15»
