If English ignorance of Welsh working class history is such a problem, starting this thread in the politics forums rather than the Welsh one would be a small start in widening people's knowledge
I'm not sure - decent family history would reveal a vast deal that is carefully forgotten. My own ancestors can hardly NOT have been involved in the Rebecca actions against the toll-gates, the Merthyr Rising and the March on Newport (and certainly one of them shifted like a whippet to the Rhondda and a less good job in the month after the latter) One of my wife's ancestors was jailed for armed rebellion in the Chartist days, and only the dimmest memory survived till my daughter looked into it.
