Tonypandy
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Tonypandy is a town in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff, traditional county of Glamorgan, south Wales, lying in the Rhondda Fawr Valley.
The town lies near the Mynydd y Gelli Iron and Bronze Age settlement and stone circle. Famous people from the town include George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy.
A major event in the town's history was the Tonypandy Riot of 1910.
Tonypandy is also a term, coined by a character in Josephine Tey's 1951 novel The Daughter of Time, for faulty collective memory or popular history. The widely-known account of a historical event (such as the Tonypandy Riot), it is argued, may very well be entirely fallacious.