Lumps of coal and earth stuck together.

Those Liberals who supported the coalition government of Liberals and Conservatives under Lloyd George after the 1918 election.

A skilled job in the coalmining industry.

A term often applied to that co-operative activity, for example in wartime, which draws the resources of virtually all classes and groups in the nation into collective or co-operative action.

Early name for trade unions.

People appointed by the Government to conduct Parliamentary investigation, e.g. the Poor Law Commission in 1832.

A division of a cantref/cantred: the optimum administrative unit in medieval Wales. In Welsh law a commote was an area which contained fifty small townships or villages.

Also known as a truck shop, i.e. shops run by employing companies, for example, ironworks, where workers could redeem the tokens in which they had been paid. This system was open to abuse by the owners.

Castles went through various stages of development from simple ‘motte and bailey’ constructions to the vast stone edifices constructed in Wales during the thirteenth century. The concentric plan in the great Welsh castles involved the principle of successive lines of defence so that each ‘ward’ or section of the castle was placed wholly within another. The outermost defence was the curtain wall, surrounding the whole castle, studded with protective towers. The entrance to the castle was protected by moat, ditch, drawbridge and portcullis. The portcullis was operated within a massive gatehouse, which was flanked by great stone towers and could house troops.

Christian Nonconformist denomination particularly characterised by its democratic government.