Thanks to funding from the Archives and Records Council Wales (ARCW) Health and Wellbeing Grant, North East Wales Archives (NEWA) has partnered with the artist-led charity Making Sense to create three...

Did you know that Thomas Richards was appointed Librarian of Bangor University exactly 100 years ago to this year? He is considered to be the founding father of the Archives and Special Collections an...

In my last blog I suggested that further research might shed some more light on the signatories of the 1923 Peace Petition that lived at the ‘strange addresses’ in the Ely area of Cardiff. That looked...

A New Education Resource from Glamorgan Archives Glamorgan Archives is an archive service based in south east Wales.  We hold over 12km of records in our collection, dating back to the 12th century an...

Tickets are now available for Rainbow Wales - Celebrating Queer Welsh Icons, Past and Present at Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff on Tuesday 23rd June 2026 at 6:00PM. Click the link for further information...

Introduction I was preparing social media content for LGBTQ+ history month when I came across the Welsh County LGBTQ+ timeline collection. Little did I know, this discovery would lead me to finding a ...

Happy International Archives Day 2026! Today we celebrate the richness of archival collections, and the importance of the work of archivists and archival institutions around the world. In this blog, R...

‍ ‍ Crowd Cymru ‍ ‍Crowd Cymru is transforming access to Welsh archives through a digital volunteer crowdsourcing project, currently funded by Welsh Government. This is a collaborative project betw...

For around two years now, I have been volunteering on the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition at the National Library of Wales, either transcribing names and addresses or reviewing the work of other particip...

Hello everyone, it’s Jen here, #CrowdCymru Digital Volunteering Project Officer with lots of news to share! Project extension and a new face! Firstly, I am delighted to share that Welsh Government has...

This art-and-archives initiative forms part of a wider project aimed at supporting mental health and wellbeing.

Fel gwirfoddolwr sy’n siarad Cymraeg, roeddwn wrth fy modd i gael prosiect i restri llythyrau Cymraeg a anfonwyd i Gymru o Awstralia yn y 1860au. Mae gen i lawer o berthnasau pell sy’n …

Digitized copy of a black and white photograph showing an exterior view of Bethania Chapel, Maesteg, with the congregation and school pupils. Part of a collection of material relating to Bethania Chap...

Currently, our digital collections represent only a tiny proportion of our overall collections. Going forward, though, collecting and caring for material which has been ‘born digital’ will become i…

At around 9.15am on the morning of October 21, 1966, a spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village of Aberfan, engulfing Pantglas Primary School and other buildings. The disaster resulted in the tragic

This month, Carmarthenshire Archives proudly welcomed the deposit of a stunning collection of portraits captured during Carmarthen Pride 2024 — a fantastic celebration of inclusivity, unity, and jo…

Conwy's d/Deaf Community in the Early 1900s