Archival Review: South Wales Co-operative Societies Collection

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Notes

[1] Photographs and records of the South Wales Miners' Federation and the National Union of Mineworkers (South Wales Area) and its individual lodges and records from Miners Institutes, Welfare Halls, Co-operative Societies and individuals connected with the mining industry in South Wales are held at Swansea University Archives. Printed material and access copies of the oral history tapes and videos, together with the banners, are held at the South Wales Miners' Library.

[2] For more information about the South Wales Coalfield Collection, including an online catalogue, please see www.swan.ac.uk/swcc

[3] Some records of Cwmbach Co-operative Society are held at Glamorgan Record Office.

[4] For an overview of research undertaken on co-operative societies in South Wales see Burge, ‘The Co-operative Movement in South Wales and its History’, 59–71. Further collections of South Wales Co-operative Society records are held at Carmarthenshire Archives Service, Ceredigion Archives, Cynon Valley Museum and Gallery, Gwent Record Office, Glamorgan Record Office, Pembrokeshire Record Office, West Glamorgan Archive Service, and the National Library of Wales.

[5] For an online image of this letter see http://www.agor.org.uk/cwm/themes/co-op/co-ops.asp