The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the...

Aberfan (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌabɛrˈvan]) is a former coal mining village in the Taff Valley 4 mi (6 km) south of the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales....

The Tribunal of Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster (the Aberfan Disaster Tribunal), chaired by Lord Justice Edmund Davies, was established in 1966 to inquire...

Aberfan Cemetery (Welsh: Mynwent Aberfan) is a cemetery near the village of Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of five cemeteries in Merthyr Tydfil County...

(or Aberfan: The Green Hollow) is a "film-poem", which was broadcast by the BBC on 21 October 2016 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Aberfan disaster...

years as Chairman of the National Coal Board, and later – despite the Aberfan disaster – headed a major inquiry which resulted in the Robens Report on...

was a school dinner lady at Pantglas Junior School in Aberfan, Wales. She was killed in the Aberfan disaster of 1966, but saved the lives of five children...

of Pantglas Junior School in Aberfan, Wales. He is known in Wales and throughout the UK as one of the heroes of the Aberfan disaster of 1966, dying in the...

attention in October 1966 in the English speaking world when a spoil tip at Aberfan in Glamorgan, Wales, gave way, killing 144 people, 116 of them children...

Harold Wilson and Edward Heath's respective terms as prime minister, the Aberfan disaster, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the 1969 Investiture of Prince Charles...