Surviving Aberfan: the People's Story
The third episode of series three of The Crown opens with the Aberfan disaster of 1966, when a slag heap on a hill above the Welsh mining village collapsed onto a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
This book is an oral history in which people from Aberfan tell the story of how the tragedy unfolded and how the community survived the trauma and rebuilt itself.
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