The Prince and Princess of Wales headed to Aberfan in South Wales to pay their respects to the families who lost children in the 1966 disaster BEN BIRCHALL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Prince William and ...

Children, and schools, are potent symbols of victimhood in industrial disasters. In the case of historical industrial disasters such as Aberfan and Flixborough, and in terms of preparation for future ...

At around quarter past nine on the morning of Friday 21 October 1966, disaster struck the coal mining village of Aberfan in South Wales. What began as a typical morning 56 years ago escalated quickly ...

The miners of Durham still sing an old song with the grim, true refrain: "There is blood, blood on the coal." In Aberfan it is the blood of children. Massive disaster has produced the same effects as ...

This year marks 50 years since the Aberfan disaster. On October 21, 1966, after several days of heavy rain, the children of Aberfan village, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, had just arrived in their ...

It is exactly 50 years since tragedy swooped down on Aberfan killing 116 children and 28 adults. The story of what happened in the south Wales mining village of Aberfan is a devastating one which ...

BBC news anchor Huw Edwards has paid tribute to the victims of the Aberfan disaster, 56 years to the day since the tragedy which saw 144 people killed. In a social media post, Edwards called for ...

Survivors of the Aberfan disaster in Wales 55 years ago have said they were subjected as children to stressful medical tests, described by one as “torture”. On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 ...

Huw Edwards traces the story of Aberfan’s decades-long battle for justice. Soon after the tragedy, people were asking some basic questions: was Aberfan a terrible accident or a preventable man-made ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The Crown Season 3, Episode 3, “Aberfan” cuts away from the opulent melodrama of palace life and takes us to one of the worst tragedies in Welsh history: the Aberfan ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales headed to Aberfan in South Wales to pay their respects to the families who lost children in the 1966 disaster Kate Middleton and Prince William are paying respects to ...