Black Lives Matter

In this timeline, you will find some major events in British history that have influenced our current discourse about race and current racial politics. Each of these events include scholarly sources that might be useful when researching and developing your own individual timeline entries.

Dowlais

Dowlais was the site of Dowlais Ironworks, founded in 1759 by John Guest and later the largest ironworks in the United Kingdom. Guest's reliance on the exploitative "truck" (company shop) system contributed to the outbreak of the Merthyr Uprising. 

Of the hill "Dowlais Top," the poet Idris Davies (1905-53) wrote: 

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