Mel Parry shot the famous image of a police officer carrying a wounded girl after the coal spoil slide in South Wales. He ...

It's one of the most famous photographs capturing the aftermath of the Aberfan disaster, but its success has come to haunt ...

At around quarter past nine on the morning of Friday 21 October 1966, disaster struck the coal mining village of Aberfan in South Wales. What began as a typical morning 56 years ago escalated quickly ...

Even after 60 years, Mair Morgan can still remember the face of the little girl with "beautiful black curly hair" whose body she had to identify. In the wake of the Aberfan disaster - when a colliery ...

Mel Parry took one of the defining images of the Aberfan disaster, but "wished he'd never taken it". Marylyn Minett’s school book, her dress and her brother’s football will be preserved by Wales’ ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales headed to Aberfan in South Wales to pay their respects to the families who lost children in the 1966 disaster Kate Middleton and Prince William are paying respects to ...

The return of Netflix's hit drama "The Crown" after a two-year hiatus spotlights a dark chapter in modern British history: the Aberfan disaster. The third season charts the royal family between 1964 ...

Season three of Netflix's The Crown depicts one of the 20th century's most horrific disasters and Queen Elizabeth's reaction to it. On Oct. 21, the Aberfan disaster occurred in the early hours of the ...

On the second day of their visit to Wales, Prince William and Kate Middleton visited the Aberfan Memorial Garden. The royals were there to pay their respects to those who lost their lives in the 1966 ...

Conservative Tom Jones apologises for using a photo of the tragedy as a "meme".

The Queen didn't visit the site of the coal mining village tragedy until eight days after it occurred Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more than 25 years’ experience at ...

This year marks 50 years since the Aberfan disaster. On October 21, 1966, after several days of heavy rain, the children of Aberfan village, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, had just arrived in their ...