The closure of Kellingley Colliery 10 years ago marked the end of deep-pit coal mining in Britain - here is its history.

A relic from a rail disaster which claimed 12 lives more than 100 years has gone on public display after being found in a ...

LONDON, May 25.—An explosion occurred yesterday morning at the Universal Colliery, at Senghenydd, in the Rhondda Valley. Over eighty men were in the pit at the time of the disaster, and there is ...

Tributes have been paid across Gwent to the 440 people who lost their lives in the 'worst disaster in British mining'.

In terms of numbers killed, the tragedy was unprecedented and remained Britain's worst mining disaster, until 1913, following the explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd near Caerphilly in ...

Miners working at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, south Wales, were in the middle of their morning shifts 2000ft below the ground when a massi ...

Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.

Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old. Focusing solely on humans at the expense of other life in the ...

In this community, struck by disaster after disaster, they’ve found ways to move through both the recurring shocks and the systemic ills that give rise to them at once.

Archive footage shows extent of Senghenydd colliery disaster Hold a mirror up to Senghenydd and, apart from the Welsh language signs, you could be looking at any former mining town in Britain.

The magnitude of the Pretoria disaster was such that its impact and aftermath will never be forgotten, with each anniversary of the tragedy being commemorated locally with just as much fervour ...