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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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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Maplympics
The Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is a fascinating spectacle. Not the circus before it, but the actual parade of competing states. It’s a challenge, an Olympic-sized challenge for me as I try and recognise a country’s flag … Continue reading
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Lens 2012 ‘Out of the Shadows’
Festival of Welsh Documentary Photography www.llgc.org.uk/lens Come to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth for a celebration of the enormous contribution of the Welshman from Cross Hands, Ifor Thomas, and his wife, Joy, to British Photography. Through their courses … Continue reading
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Wales in Europe
Exciting news! 10,000 images from the John Thomas and Welsh Landscape collections can now be searched and viewed via the newly re-launched European Library website. Thanks to our work with the Europeana Libraries project we are one of 19 leading … Continue reading
The mystery of Gareth Vaughan Jones
Gareth Vaughan Jones was born at Barry on 13 August 1905, the son of Major Edgar and Annie Gwen Jones. He was educated at Barry County School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Trinity College, Cambridge, gaining first … Continue reading
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Christopher Williams Awakes!
The Library’s magnificent, some say ‘block-busting’ Christopher Williams exhibition will open on 7 July and will be opened officially by the former MP, Kim Howells, on 14 July. I guess, like many, I was more familiar with one of … Continue reading