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7.7 Wales between the Wars

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Image 1: Cardiff Docks, 1923. (Source: County of South Glamorgan Libraries.)

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Image 2: Dowlais iron and steel works in 1912, on the occasion of a visit by King George V and Queen Mary. (Source: Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum.)

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Image 3: Unemployed men clearing dumps in south Wales

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Image 4: Queen Street, Cardiff, c. 1939. (Source: BBC Hulton Picture Library.)

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Image 5: Coleg Harlech, 1939

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Image 6: Emrys Davies and Arnold Dyson, inter-war Glamorgan batsmen

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Image 7: Tommy Farr. (Source: BBC Hulton Picture Library.)

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Image 8: Aneurin Bevan and Jenny Lee on their wedding day. (Source: BBC Hulton Picture Library.)

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Image 9: Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis (centre), and D.J. Williams. (Source: National Library of Wales.)

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Image 10: James Griffiths. (Source: BBC Hulton Picture library.)

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Image 11: Rachel Thomas as ‘the Welsh Mam’ in Blue Scar, 1948. (Source: MacQuitty Collection.)

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Image 12: Late evening in the kitchen. Bill Brandt, 1936. (Source: Copyright estate of Bill Brandt — courtesy of Noya Brandt.)

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Image 13: Pencil-making in Port Penrhyn, c. 1940. (Source: Gwynedd Archives Service.)

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Image 14: Cookery book cover, c. 1930

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Image 15: 1934, Welsh hunger marchers resting. (Source: Dora Cox.)

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Image 16: Paul Nash illustration for a cover of The Labour Woman

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Image 17: 1934, Welsh hunger marchers. (Source: Dora Cox.)

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Image 18: A poignant image from the 1930s – empty coal trucks from Ralph Bond’s 1937 film Today We Live

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Image 19: An audience in a cinema in the 1930s. (Source: BBC Hulton Picture Library.)

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Image 20: Poster for The Proud Valley (Source: Weintraub Entertainment (Administration) Limited.)

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Image 21: Haggar’s Cinema, Aberdare. (Source: Aberdare Central Library.)

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Image 22: Lewis Jones (centre) greets Arthur Griffiths on his release from prison in 1936. (Source: South Wales Miners’ Library.)

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Image 23: Kate Roberts. (Source: Welsh Arts Council.)

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Image 24: Gwyn Jones. (Source: Welsh Arts Council.)

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Image 25: Idris Davies

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Image 26: D. Gwenallt Jones (Gwenallt). (Source: Welsh Arts Council.)

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Image 27: Gwyn Thomas. (Source: Welsh Arts Council.)

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Image 28: Raymond Williams. (Source: Welsh Arts Council.)

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