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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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#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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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