21 October 1966
South Wales Echo, Headline: 4 Children Die, 160 Missing in S. Wales Horror
22 October 1966
Western Mail, Headline: 83 killed, 60 still lost
South Wales Echo, Headline: 118 bodies recovered: Final toll may reach 220
Guardian, Headline: 200 Lost in Welsh landslide
Daily Mirror, Headline: Disaster
The Times, Headline: 200 feared dead after slag buries school
Daily Sketch, Headline: Disaster villagers ready to evacuate
23 October 1966
The People, Headline: The Sorrow and the Anger
The Sunday Times, Headline: All hope ends for the entombed children
News of the World, Headline: The Anger and the agony
Sunday Mirror, Headline: Why were the warnings ignored ?
24 October 1966
The Guardian, Headline: Mr. Justice Davies for Aberfan Inquiry
Daily Sketch, Headline: All Hope Abandoned?
Sun, Headline: ‘Water bomb’, blamed for tip disaster
Daily Mail, Aberfan plea: Don’t use this tip again
Western Mail, Headline: NCB men blame water spring for tip slide
South Wales Echo, Toll now 143; 49 are still sought - Mayor stops tip safety
questions
Daily Express, Headline: Warnings locked away in a safe
Daily Mirror, Headline: Welsh judge heads probe
Daily Telegraph, Headline: Disaster Tribunal Judge Named
25 October 1966
Western Mail, Headline: Round-the-clock watch ordered on another tip
South Wales Echo, Headline: Aberfan man breaks cordon to talk with judge
26 October 1966
Western Mail, Headline: There will be no white-wash, pledges judge
The Times, Headline: Aberfan Visit by the Queen on Saturday
The Daily Telegraph, Headline: £50 NCB grant for Aberfan families
Sun, Headline: £50 Pay-out at Aberfan
Guardian, Headline: £50 for all Aberfan sufferers
South Wales Echo, Headline: Tip fear pupils kept at home
27 October 1966
Western Mail, Queen will have tea with man who lost relatives
South Wales Echo (incomplete), headline (p.3): The Queen will talk with disaster
folk in streets
28 October 1966
South Wales Echo, Headline: 28 October 1966
Western Mail, Headline: Cabinet’s shock move on Aberfan disaster
Daily Express, Headline: Silence [front page missing]
29 October 1966
South Wales Echo, Headline: Queen weeps as she talks with mothers
30 October 1966
Sunday Mirror, Headline: The Face of Grief
31 October 1966
Western Mail (incomplete), Headline (p.4): Never before has Queen been so close
to people of Wales
8 November 1966
South Wales Echo, Headline: Aberfan lessons must be learned - Judge
14 November 1966
Life International, Headline: Aberfan digs out its dead
November 1966
Coal News, Headline: The Sorrow of Aberfan
3 August 1967
South Wales Echo, Aberfan - ‘Story of bungling ineptitude by many men’
4 August 1967
Western Mail, Headline: Robens given month to plan the clean-up
9 March 1973
South Wales Echo, Headline: The Queen returns to Aberfan
10 March 1973
Western Mail (incomplete), Headline Queen comes back to a smiling Aberfan
The library also holds a complete run of the Merthyr Express including 1966-67 when substantial coverage was given to the Disaster, the Tribunal and other related issues.