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The Battle of De Winton Field: Memory, Resistance and Working-Class Identity in the South Wales Valleys
South Wales was already in a precarious economic position when the Wall Street Crash of 1929 triggered a global economic downturn. The area’s heavy reliance on coal exports, which was already declining in demand, meant that the Depression hit the region particularly hard. Unemployment rose sharply, wages fell and many communities in the coal-mining valleys…
