Guest Post: Life from the dead: being the history of the entombed colliers in the “Ty-newydd Pit”, Rhondda Valley, from April 11th until the 20th, 1877

This guest post comes from Luke Bacigalupo. I first came across the 1877 Tynewydd disaster while researching Lewis Baxter, one of the leaders of the Chartist rising in Llanidloes in 1839. I discovered that his nephew, David Hughes, was trapped underground during the disaster. On 11th April 1877, at about 4 p.m., the Tynewydd Pit of the Troedyrhiw Colliery, near Porth in South Wales became…