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Mar 3, 2024 · In short, “Churchill didn’t order troops into Tonypandy”. In this article I want to examine the events of 7–8 November 1910 in more detail than in the earlier piece, and will show that it ...
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Given the unprecedented scale of the operation and the time it took to plan, you can understand why Churchill had wanted to be there from the start. Winston Churchill asked Mountbatten when he became head of combined operations in October 1941 to begin planning for the D-Day invasion of Europe.”
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- Origins of The Dispute
- Enter The Home Secretary
- False Step
- Perceptions
- Long Legacy
- Sources and Further Reading
By Dai Smith
Dai Smith was born in Tonypandy in 1945. He has been a Professor of Modern History at both Cardiff and Swansea Universities. His numerous publications include a history of the South Wales miners in the twentieth century. In January 1949, four years into the Labour Government of Clement Attlee created by a landslide electoral victory over Winston Churchill’s Conservative Party in 1945, the Lord Mayor of Cardiff proposed to his Council that a new road development in the city centre be named “Ch...
By the late summer of 1910, eighty men in the Ely pit, one of four pits in the Naval Colliery complex to the south of the settlement of Tonypandy, had been engaged for some months with management in negotiation over the cutting price per ton to be paid for the working of a new seam of coal. This Bute seam contained a great deal of stone that was, e...
It was only after these related but disparate events that Churchill irrevocably entered the fray. Home Secretary since February of that year, Churchill was intent on being a peacemaker but was now duped into taking a stance that he had initially spurned as he was engulfed by a conflict he neither fully understood nor controlled. It was the local co...
The narrative and timing of these events is the crux to comprehending Churchill’s next—and false—step. In essence, the version told him by the police and the mine owners was believed: that “a mob” setting out to invade and capture the Glamorgan Colliery had been foiled in their undertaking by a small but gallant force of police which, next time, mi...
The social pathology indicated by the smashing and looting of the shops is revelatory of a community fracture inimical to the self-image cherished by Liberal and Nonconformist Edwardian Wales. In sum, the communal leadership of a shopocracy was directly challenged in a carnival of disorder. Those shopkeepers who were multiple homeowners for purpose...
Tonypandy was a cusp moment. After the defeat, the ground shifted in ways unexpected in their rapidity and profundity before the strike. In 1912 a form of the minimum wage was won by a nation-wide coal strike. In 1912 William Abraham (Mabon) resigned as SWMF President. The Executive Council of the SWMF welcomed the “advanced men” into its ranks. Th...
Winston Churchill steadfastly snubbed all proposals for a Parliamentary Enquiry into his action during the 1910–11 Cambrian Coal Strike. His apparent insouciance has been echoed by his numerous biographers, who serially treat the matter of “Tonypandy” in either a perfunctory or dismissive manner. In part, this may be because the primary published d...
Aug 30, 2022 · He held back troops at Swindon en route for South Wales as a precautionary move. Nevertheless, it is clear that those who have defended him in belligerent fashion have been too one-sided. 2 Churchill was the Home Secretary, yet he assumed authority over the armed forces, which was the departmental responsibility of Richard Haldane, the ...
Nov 3, 2010 · He ordered that soldiers, despatched by the War Office from barracks at Tidworth, should be held back, kept in readiness at Cardiff and Swindon. Churchill did agree, however, to send in an...
Apr 11, 2016 · Let us start by correcting the record: Churchill did send troops to scenes of strikes and rioting in Wales, and in 1911 their presence at one location resulted in two to four fatalities. Now, as the traffic judge used to allow me to do in my leaded-foot days as a teenage driver, I shall plead on Churchill’s behalf: “Guilty with an ...
Sep 21, 2020 · Churchill was quoted several times saying he was happy to let the Soviets and Germans kill each other for as long as possible. He was also keen on seizing lands to expand the empire after the war. The entire campaign in Africa was madness because the Allies could have gone for the throat to Sicily.
