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A blog about the work and collections of the National Library of Wales.
Due to the more personal nature of blogs it is the Library's policy to publish postings in the original language only. An equal number of blog posts are published in both Welsh and English, but they are not the same postings. For a translation of the blog readers may wish to try facilities such as Google Translate.
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Yearly Archives: 2012
Lady Charlotte Guest and Christmas Fear
2012 is the bicentenary of Lady Charlotte Guest’s birth. She settled in Wales in 1833 on marrying John Guest, Dowlais ironmaster. Remembered for her pioneer translation into English of the medieval Welsh tales, ‘The Mabinogion’, Charlotte was also an educator, … Continue reading
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Tracking the Boston Manuscript
I have just completed the work of tracking the Boston Manuscript of the Laws of Hywel Dda (NLW MS 24029A) as part of the digitisation of the manuscript. The first stage of the tracking process is to create a detailed … Continue reading
Dylan Thomas
‘One Christmas was so much like another…’ Dylan Thomas, A Child’s Christmas in Wales Exciting plans for a major exhibition in the Library with associated activities to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas are underway, thanks to … Continue reading
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The Researcher of Tomorrow and the end of the Europeana Libraries Project
I’ve just come back from The European Library’s Researcher of Tomorrow conference which took place in Madrid. The conference covered a number of aspects of the challenges and opportunities facing libraries with the advancement of digitisation and the associated development … Continue reading
#Bus03
It’s been nearly three months now since #bus03 was launched on the 13th of September and all is going well! The bus runs every 20 minutes during term time and is without a doubt, a great asset to readers, visitors … Continue reading
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Capturing the Laws of Hywel Dda
In a recent Welsh-language blog, we reported that the Library’s newly-acquired manuscript of the Laws of Hywel Dda had been disbound and repaired, ready for digitisation. An accompanying English-language blog by Professor Paul Russell of Cambridge University describes the same … Continue reading
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350th anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer
The history of the Book of Common Prayer began in the reign of King Henry VIII, when Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, produced his first private draft of the daily offices of Morning and Evening Prayer. The first published editions … Continue reading
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The Titanic
While watching a news story build up I tend to use Twitter, the BBC News website and so on. Back in 1912 when the Titanic struck an iceberg it was the newspapers which gave the news. The Daily newspapers were especially … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambria Daily Leader, Digitisation, Maritime Disaster, Newspapers, Titanic
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The War Diary of Edward Thomas
The poet Edward Thomas met one of the strangest deaths of the First World War. On Easter Monday 1917, on the first morning of the Battle of Arras, a stray German shell passed so close to him that the rush … Continue reading
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‘Out of the Shadows’ – The life and work of Ifor and Joy Thomas
Come to The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth this Friday and Saturday (23 and 24 November 2012) to celebrate the enormous contribution of the Welshman from Cross Hands, Ifor Thomas and his wife, Joy to British photography. Through their … Continue reading