Next year the program Time Table and Agenda generally the same but with more focus on The Lamb event Saturday evening and on the Sunday continued Field Trip tour of localities/sites associated with the Merthyr Rising at Cefn Coed, Twyn y Waun and Dowlais prior to an afternoon event at Cyfarthfa Castle and early evening Massacre Remembrance in Merthyr. Further Info in due course, in mean time see below:
In advance of next years two day event we are making big efforts to see established 1831 ALIVE Living History 'Open Air' Theatr Platform.'
If interested in participating do get in touch.
Cymdeithas Lewsyn yr Heliwr Frances Evans Tribute 19 June 2013.
THIS ONE IS FOR THE WOMEN OF THE PITCHFORK - ALL OUR MOTHERS, SISTERS AND DAUGHTERS DOWN THROUGH THE AGES OFTEN IN THE VANGUARD OF PROTEST, CAMPAIGNS AND STRUGGLES FOR LAND AND LIBERTY AGAINST TYRANNY, OPPRESSION AND EXPLOITATION. C'MON GIRLS CONTINUE IN THIS TRADITION! AND SHOW THE GUYS JUST HOW TO DO IT - HOW TO FIGHT BACK FOR REAL!
From the great Enclosures of the 16th to 18th Century the Women were to the fore in defending their Common land upon which across the land many a Tai Unnos had been built. When attempts were made by the Quarry Masters to take the land and pull down these homes of the poor, it would be Women to the fore in the popular Resistance. Same in Merthyr in 1831 it was the women who went up to Cefn Coed to meet there with the Soldiers sent from Brecon and follow them to Merythr harrying them with Rough Music. From then to the Rebecca Riots and 1888 Tithe Wars. To Workers Revolts from 1839 to 1926 and 1935 to our own times of the last great Miners Strike the Women of the Pitchfork were to the fore. Long may they continue to be so as they are needed now just as much as they ever were in past times. Cymdeithas Lewsyn yr Heliwr with the Partisans of the Great Unrest will place tributes of Red Carnations and Ivy at Carmarthen Work House on Wednesday 19 June (1843) 2013. Do support the call for a Frances Evans statue in Carmarthen. (see Cym Lewsyn yr Heliwr fb group).
