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It’s World Digital Preservation Day, an annual event led by the Digital Preservation Coalition to celebrate the collaborative work that is being undertaken globally to ensure digital content is available in the present and the future.
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
It’s World Digital Preservation Day, an annual event led by the Digital Preservation Coalition to celebrate the collaborative work that is being undertaken globally to ensure digital content is available in the present and the future.
Llandudno yn y nos, gyda goleuadau'n adlewyrchu ar ddyfroedd y traeth. CP92/18/B/21
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Llandudno at Night, lights reflecting on the waters of the beach. CP92/18/B/21
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Llandudno at Night, lights reflecting on the waters of the beach. CP92/18/B/21
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Llandudno yn y nos, gyda goleuadau'n adlewyrchu ar ddyfroedd y traeth. CP92/18/B/21
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Llandudno at Night, lights reflecting on the waters of the beach. CP92/18/B/21
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Llandudno at Night, lights reflecting on the waters of the beach. CP92/18/B/21
Cymdeithas Chwaraewyr Cerdd Llandudno, yn perfformio ‘The Arcadians’ yn Theatr y Palladium ym mis Rhagfyr 1929.
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Llandudno Musical Players Society, putting on ‘The Arcadians’ at the Palladium Theatre in December 1929.
Conwy Archives 📜
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Llandudno Musical Players Society, putting on ‘The Arcadians’ at the Palladium Theatre in December 1929.
Conwy Archives 📜
October 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Cymdeithas Chwaraewyr Cerdd Llandudno, yn perfformio ‘The Arcadians’ yn Theatr y Palladium ym mis Rhagfyr 1929.
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Llandudno Musical Players Society, putting on ‘The Arcadians’ at the Palladium Theatre in December 1929.
Conwy Archives 📜
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Llandudno Musical Players Society, putting on ‘The Arcadians’ at the Palladium Theatre in December 1929.
Conwy Archives 📜
David (Davy) John Jones yn ei gadair olwyn 'gadair ymolchi wiail' yng Nghonwy, tua 1915.
Archifau Conwy
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David (Davy) John Jones in his 'wicker bathchair' wheelchair in Conwy, c.1915.
Conwy Archives
Archifau Conwy
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David (Davy) John Jones in his 'wicker bathchair' wheelchair in Conwy, c.1915.
Conwy Archives
October 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
David (Davy) John Jones yn ei gadair olwyn 'gadair ymolchi wiail' yng Nghonwy, tua 1915.
Archifau Conwy
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David (Davy) John Jones in his 'wicker bathchair' wheelchair in Conwy, c.1915.
Conwy Archives
Archifau Conwy
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David (Davy) John Jones in his 'wicker bathchair' wheelchair in Conwy, c.1915.
Conwy Archives
This image from Glamorgan Archives taken at Tirpentwys Colliery in 1955 shows an affectionate colliery horse named Aber (DNCB/14/4/149/19). To learn more about pit ponies and other items from the Glamorgan’s Blood exhibition, click here: glamarchives.gov.uk/blood/ponies/
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July 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This image from Glamorgan Archives taken at Tirpentwys Colliery in 1955 shows an affectionate colliery horse named Aber (DNCB/14/4/149/19). To learn more about pit ponies and other items from the Glamorgan’s Blood exhibition, click here: glamarchives.gov.uk/blood/ponies/
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📷@glamarchives.bsky.social
This postcard depicts a 'sand beast Father made many years ago' on Borth beach. It was sent by ‘Alan’ who was staying in Borth to Miss Joyce Murray of The Eyrie, Radlett, Hertfordshire, c.1910s Does the Beast of Borth still prowl the beach? Item from Ceredigion Archives.
July 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This postcard depicts a 'sand beast Father made many years ago' on Borth beach. It was sent by ‘Alan’ who was staying in Borth to Miss Joyce Murray of The Eyrie, Radlett, Hertfordshire, c.1910s Does the Beast of Borth still prowl the beach? Item from Ceredigion Archives.
To celebrate #InternationalArchivesDay this year we held our annual Archives and Records Council Wales Forum; an opportunity for those in the profession to meet up, hear from our wonderful speakers, and of course enjoy lots of cake🥳
#ArchivesWales #IAD2025
#ArchivesWales #IAD2025
June 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
To celebrate #InternationalArchivesDay this year we held our annual Archives and Records Council Wales Forum; an opportunity for those in the profession to meet up, hear from our wonderful speakers, and of course enjoy lots of cake🥳
#ArchivesWales #IAD2025
#ArchivesWales #IAD2025
📷Philip Burton and Richard Burton, c.1943
The archive collection of the actor Richard Burton is held at The Richard Burton Archives, @swanseauni.bsky.social
More information here: libguides.swansea.ac.uk/richardburt.....
#MrBurton
The archive collection of the actor Richard Burton is held at The Richard Burton Archives, @swanseauni.bsky.social
More information here: libguides.swansea.ac.uk/richardburt.....
#MrBurton
May 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📷Philip Burton and Richard Burton, c.1943
The archive collection of the actor Richard Burton is held at The Richard Burton Archives, @swanseauni.bsky.social
More information here: libguides.swansea.ac.uk/richardburt.....
#MrBurton
The archive collection of the actor Richard Burton is held at The Richard Burton Archives, @swanseauni.bsky.social
More information here: libguides.swansea.ac.uk/richardburt.....
#MrBurton
Today marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day. Share your photos and memories. These helmet and uniform badges used by the National and Auxiliary Fire Service during WW2, are from West Glamorgan Archive Service. #VE80 #Victory80
May 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Today marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day. Share your photos and memories. These helmet and uniform badges used by the National and Auxiliary Fire Service during WW2, are from West Glamorgan Archive Service. #VE80 #Victory80
🧩A unique and engaging way to explore local history has arrived at local libraries in Denbighshire! Who will be the first to take on and complete the 1000-piece challenge? For more details, read our blog: archives.wales/.../piecing-...
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@newalesarchives.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🧩A unique and engaging way to explore local history has arrived at local libraries in Denbighshire! Who will be the first to take on and complete the 1000-piece challenge? For more details, read our blog: archives.wales/.../piecing-...
@newalesarchives.bsky.social
@newalesarchives.bsky.social
Dr Kilmer’s Swamp-Root was a patent medicine famous for its strong advertising. Despite being from an American brand, this pamphlet has a real Welsh look. Featuring a woodland scene, daffodils, and a figure who bears a striking resemblance to Blodeuwedd. Item from Archifdy Ceredigion Archives.
April 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Dr Kilmer’s Swamp-Root was a patent medicine famous for its strong advertising. Despite being from an American brand, this pamphlet has a real Welsh look. Featuring a woodland scene, daffodils, and a figure who bears a striking resemblance to Blodeuwedd. Item from Archifdy Ceredigion Archives.
In the archives of Wales, you’ll find stunning maps that offer more than just directions. They reveal centuries of history and artistry. Find out more in this video: youtu.be/a3qsco_7VwI
April 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
In the archives of Wales, you’ll find stunning maps that offer more than just directions. They reveal centuries of history and artistry. Find out more in this video: youtu.be/a3qsco_7VwI
This image of tiny hoverflies on a umbellifer flower is just one of a huge selection of images from the slide collection related to the career and interests of academic David B. James, author of ‘Ceredigion: Its Natural History’ and other works.
From Ceredigion archives
#SomethingSmall #Archive30
From Ceredigion archives
#SomethingSmall #Archive30
April 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This image of tiny hoverflies on a umbellifer flower is just one of a huge selection of images from the slide collection related to the career and interests of academic David B. James, author of ‘Ceredigion: Its Natural History’ and other works.
From Ceredigion archives
#SomethingSmall #Archive30
From Ceredigion archives
#SomethingSmall #Archive30
“This is the room we keep items that need to be isolated from the rest of the collections, because of damp, mould, insect activity etc. ... By the end of the project the number of items requiring treatment had reduced by 65%.”
Read more: archives.wales/2025/04/08/t...
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Read more: archives.wales/2025/04/08/t...
@gwentarchives.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
“This is the room we keep items that need to be isolated from the rest of the collections, because of damp, mould, insect activity etc. ... By the end of the project the number of items requiring treatment had reduced by 65%.”
Read more: archives.wales/2025/04/08/t...
@gwentarchives.bsky.social
Read more: archives.wales/2025/04/08/t...
@gwentarchives.bsky.social
'Football or Life in Cardiff'
This playbill is from the Theatre Royal, Cardiff advertising a rugby themed performance in June 1886. You can read more about it on the Cardiff Rugby Museum website: bit.ly/3HyUnUN
Item from Glamorgan Archives / Archifau Morgannwg
This playbill is from the Theatre Royal, Cardiff advertising a rugby themed performance in June 1886. You can read more about it on the Cardiff Rugby Museum website: bit.ly/3HyUnUN
Item from Glamorgan Archives / Archifau Morgannwg
March 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
'Football or Life in Cardiff'
This playbill is from the Theatre Royal, Cardiff advertising a rugby themed performance in June 1886. You can read more about it on the Cardiff Rugby Museum website: bit.ly/3HyUnUN
Item from Glamorgan Archives / Archifau Morgannwg
This playbill is from the Theatre Royal, Cardiff advertising a rugby themed performance in June 1886. You can read more about it on the Cardiff Rugby Museum website: bit.ly/3HyUnUN
Item from Glamorgan Archives / Archifau Morgannwg
Archie Totty smiling with his milk float at Garreg Lydan (Bagillt).
Photo from North East Wales Archives - Denbighshire & Flintshire : PH/02/178
#InternationalDayOfHappiness #DiwrnodRhyngwladolHapusrwydd
Photo from North East Wales Archives - Denbighshire & Flintshire : PH/02/178
#InternationalDayOfHappiness #DiwrnodRhyngwladolHapusrwydd
March 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Archie Totty smiling with his milk float at Garreg Lydan (Bagillt).
Photo from North East Wales Archives - Denbighshire & Flintshire : PH/02/178
#InternationalDayOfHappiness #DiwrnodRhyngwladolHapusrwydd
Photo from North East Wales Archives - Denbighshire & Flintshire : PH/02/178
#InternationalDayOfHappiness #DiwrnodRhyngwladolHapusrwydd
"They say the past is a different country — so let's plan a weekend road trip to the past! Armed with old advertisements as our guide, let’s explore some historic shops, lively dance halls, and grand hotels."
Read more on our latest blog: archives.wales/2025/03/07/a...
Read more on our latest blog: archives.wales/2025/03/07/a...
March 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"They say the past is a different country — so let's plan a weekend road trip to the past! Armed with old advertisements as our guide, let’s explore some historic shops, lively dance halls, and grand hotels."
Read more on our latest blog: archives.wales/2025/03/07/a...
Read more on our latest blog: archives.wales/2025/03/07/a...
This wonderful photograph of a dog show in Newport is from September 1909.
It is probably from the second annual dog show of The Newport and District Canine Society.
We hope all the dogs enjoyed themselves (and the humans too).
Item from Gwent Archives
#Crufts2025
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It is probably from the second annual dog show of The Newport and District Canine Society.
We hope all the dogs enjoyed themselves (and the humans too).
Item from Gwent Archives
#Crufts2025
🐶
March 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This wonderful photograph of a dog show in Newport is from September 1909.
It is probably from the second annual dog show of The Newport and District Canine Society.
We hope all the dogs enjoyed themselves (and the humans too).
Item from Gwent Archives
#Crufts2025
🐶
It is probably from the second annual dog show of The Newport and District Canine Society.
We hope all the dogs enjoyed themselves (and the humans too).
Item from Gwent Archives
#Crufts2025
🐶
These pictures contain pioneering freshwater ecologist Kathleen Carpenter, nee Zimmerman.
She is known for her studies of the effects of metal pollution on Welsh rivers and her book Life in Inland Waters.
Items from Aberystwyth Uni Archives.
#InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience
She is known for her studies of the effects of metal pollution on Welsh rivers and her book Life in Inland Waters.
Items from Aberystwyth Uni Archives.
#InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience
February 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
These pictures contain pioneering freshwater ecologist Kathleen Carpenter, nee Zimmerman.
She is known for her studies of the effects of metal pollution on Welsh rivers and her book Life in Inland Waters.
Items from Aberystwyth Uni Archives.
#InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience
She is known for her studies of the effects of metal pollution on Welsh rivers and her book Life in Inland Waters.
Items from Aberystwyth Uni Archives.
#InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience
February 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
❄️📷☃️It's been a wintry few days across Wales this week. These snowy scenes of Haverfordwest taken by Joffre Swales in the late-1960s are from a collection at Archifdy Sir Benfro / Pembrokeshire Archives
January 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
❄️📷☃️It's been a wintry few days across Wales this week. These snowy scenes of Haverfordwest taken by Joffre Swales in the late-1960s are from a collection at Archifdy Sir Benfro / Pembrokeshire Archives
Four months after the start of the Second World War, food rationing began in Britain. The first items to be rationed were bacon, butter and sugar.
This ledger from Llangaffo Post Office covers WW2 and includes a list of those registered for Jam, Treacle and Syrup.
Item from Anglesey Archives
This ledger from Llangaffo Post Office covers WW2 and includes a list of those registered for Jam, Treacle and Syrup.
Item from Anglesey Archives
January 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Four months after the start of the Second World War, food rationing began in Britain. The first items to be rationed were bacon, butter and sugar.
This ledger from Llangaffo Post Office covers WW2 and includes a list of those registered for Jam, Treacle and Syrup.
Item from Anglesey Archives
This ledger from Llangaffo Post Office covers WW2 and includes a list of those registered for Jam, Treacle and Syrup.
Item from Anglesey Archives
These are the 1979 Junior Common Room committee minutes for a Swansea University halls of residence.
It was agreed “The Warden will remind people that there is to be no throwing of food at the Xmas Dinners”.
It was also stated that the ‘Xmas Brawl...is to be continued’.
From Swansea Uni Archives
It was agreed “The Warden will remind people that there is to be no throwing of food at the Xmas Dinners”.
It was also stated that the ‘Xmas Brawl...is to be continued’.
From Swansea Uni Archives
December 19, 2024 at 9:59 AM
These are the 1979 Junior Common Room committee minutes for a Swansea University halls of residence.
It was agreed “The Warden will remind people that there is to be no throwing of food at the Xmas Dinners”.
It was also stated that the ‘Xmas Brawl...is to be continued’.
From Swansea Uni Archives
It was agreed “The Warden will remind people that there is to be no throwing of food at the Xmas Dinners”.
It was also stated that the ‘Xmas Brawl...is to be continued’.
From Swansea Uni Archives
During WW2 Christmas shopping was much harder, with a lack of luxuries & gifts on the market. The British public were encouraged to save & make '... a contribution to the greatest gift of all- Victory' via Christmas saving stamps.
From Swansea Uni Archives.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasGifts
From Swansea Uni Archives.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasGifts
December 17, 2024 at 9:03 AM
During WW2 Christmas shopping was much harder, with a lack of luxuries & gifts on the market. The British public were encouraged to save & make '... a contribution to the greatest gift of all- Victory' via Christmas saving stamps.
From Swansea Uni Archives.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasGifts
From Swansea Uni Archives.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasGifts
During WW2 Christmas shopping was much harder, with a lack of luxuries & gifts on the market. The British public were encouraged to save & make 'a contribution to the greatest gift of all- Victory' via Christmas saving stamps.
From Swansea Uni Archives.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasGifts
From Swansea Uni Archives.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasGifts
December 16, 2024 at 9:33 AM
During WW2 Christmas shopping was much harder, with a lack of luxuries & gifts on the market. The British public were encouraged to save & make 'a contribution to the greatest gift of all- Victory' via Christmas saving stamps.
From Swansea Uni Archives.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasGifts
From Swansea Uni Archives.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasGifts