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Butetown investiture party

BBC Wales News, first broadcast 1 July, 1969

A vibrant street party in Cardiff's Butetown area marks the investiture of the Prince of Wales in July 1969.

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Investiture timeline

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Take a tour of the 1969 investiture.

The Welsh flag

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Y Ddraig Goch

The current flag was adopted by royal decree only in 1959.

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Demonstrating miners at the TUC Conference, Brighton, 1984

Miners' strike

BBC content about industrial action affecting the coal industry in the 1980s.


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