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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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 …
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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 …
