Academic articles about Aberfan
- Bayliss, R. W., Symptoms in the Operational Failure of Public Administration,
Aberfan, Hither Green, Hixon Crossing, Occasional Papers no. 10 (Birmingham:
University of Birmingham, 1969).
- Couto, Richard A., ‘Catastrophe and Community Empowerment: The Group Formulations
of Aberfan’s Survivors’, Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 17, July
1989. 236-248.
- Couto, Richard A., 'Economics, Experts, and Risk: Lessons from the Catastrophe at
Aberfan', Political Psychology, vol. 10, no. 2, 1989, 309-324.
- Johnes, Martin, ‘Uneasy relationships: Local Politcs, Merthyr Tydfil Borough County
Council and the Aberfan Disaster’, Welsh History Review, vol. 20, no. 1, 2000,
143-66.
- Johnes, Martin, ‘Disasters and Responsibility: Lessons from Aberfan’ Planet:
The Welsh Internationalist, June-July 1999.
- Jones, Erastus, ‘Working in Aberfan and the Valleys’, Social & Economic
Administration, vol. 9, no. 1. Spring 1979, 30-40.
- McLean, Iain & Johnes, Martin, ‘Regulating Gifts of Generosity: Aberfan and the
Charity Commission’, Legal Studies, 19(3), 1999, 380-396..
- McLean, Iain, ‘On moles and the habits of birds: the unpolitics of Aberfan’, Twentieth
Century British History, 8, 1997, 285-309.
- Miller, Joan, ‘Community Development in a Disaster Community’, Community
Development Journal, 8 (3), October 1973, 161-168.
- Nunn, Charles, ‘The Disaster of Aberfan’, Police Review, 16 October
1987.
- Watkins, Hugh, ‘ "From Chaos to Calm" The Diary of the Gordon-Lennox
Education Centre, Nixonville, Aberfan from Thursday November 3rd, 1966 to
Thursday, December 1st, 1966’, Merthyr Historian, vol. 7, 1994,
58-69.
- Williams, R. M., & Murray Parkes, C., ‘Psychosocial Effects of Disaster: Birth
Rate in Aberfan’, British Medical Journal, 2 (10 May), 1975, 303-304.
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