Tarian y Gweithiwr
Tarian y Gweithiwr (The Worker's Shield) was a weekly Welsh-language newspaper published in Aberdare between 1875 and 1934, initially by the firm of Mills, Lynch, and Davies. The paper achieved a peak circulation of around 15,000 copies a week.[1][2]
 Tarian Y Gweithiwr | |
| Type | weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Editor | J. Tywi Jones[*] |
| Launched | 15 January 1875  |
| Ceased publication | 9 July 1914 |
| Relaunched | Y Darian |
| City | Aberdare |
| OCLC number | 502362146 |
A supporter of radical principles, Tarian y Gweithiwr emphasised workers' rights in its coverage of political news as well as in opinion pieces, making it popular with the miners and other industrial workers of South Wales.[1]
Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised 1,645 issues of Tariany Y Gweithiwr (1875–1910) from among the newspaper holdings of the National Library of Wales.
Associated titles
Y Darian (1914–1934)
References
- "Welsh Newspapers Online". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
- "Some Prominent South Wales Weeklies". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
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