Merthyr Chartism:
From Dic Penderyn to Henry Richard
From Dic Penderyn to Henry Richard
Commemorating the history and landscape of Chartism and Democracy
A public lecture by Joe England
St David's Church Hall, Merthyr Tydfil, 7.30 pm
Organised by the Dic Penderyn Society
For details contact Mr Viv Pugh, Tel 01685 377883
"Merthyr Tydvil, a place never to be forgotten when once seen. The blackest place above ground; I suppose, the Non-plus-ultra of Industrialism wholly mammonish, given up to shopkeeper supply-and-demand;—presided over by sooty Darkness physical and spiritual, by Beer, Methodism and the Devil, to a lamentable and supreme extent!" (Thomas Carlyle, 1854)