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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: 2013
Aberystwyth Shipping Records
A valuable resource for genealogists and maritime historians alike has recently been made available on-line on the Library’s Full Catalogue. The Aberystwyth Shipping Records contain crew accounts and agreements (generally known as crew lists) and logbooks, together with associated papers … Continue reading
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Rumours of a Papal Abdication
The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI caused a frisson of curiosity and wonder. Comments abounded in the press about the fact that the previous resignation was by Celestine V on 13 December 1294. Though others who had done a bit … Continue reading
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Reshaping Welsh Railways – Beeching Report 50 years on
This month sees the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first part of a report into the state of Britain’s railways written by Richard Beeching and commonly called the Beeching Report. This report called for a drastic reduction in … Continue reading
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Boston Manuscript: creating the METS document
After the Imaging officers have completed scanning the manuscript it is necessary to create a METS document. METS is a data structure for describing and managing complex digital library objects. Administrative, structural, and descriptive metadata is created for the webpage … Continue reading
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World War 1914-1918 and the Welsh Experience Digitisation Project: 12 months in
In January 2012 the National Library in partnership with Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, Cardiff University, Swansea University, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, the People’s Collection Wales, BBC Cymru Wales and the Archives and Records Council Wales began a … Continue reading
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Jane Austen’s ‘only young man of renown’
Last month saw the two-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Whilst Austen (1775-1817) is surely as popular in Wales as elsewhere, it’s fair to say her Welsh connections are few and far between. Therefore it … Continue reading
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Volunteering with the Boston Manuscript
Two Library volunteers describe their recent experience of working as trained demonstrators during guided-tours of the Conservation Studio, where the medieval Boston Manuscript, purchased with HLF funding, is in the process of being re-bound: Sam Shaw: “When the project with … Continue reading
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The Library visits London to the Who Do You Think You Are? – LIVE! Show
Genealogical experts from the Library will be attending the highly successful Who Do You Think You Are? – LIVE! show in Olympia, London, 22-24 February. This will be the seventh consecutive year that the Library has attended, to what has … Continue reading
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Calling volunteers throughout Wales …
The National Library of Wales is inviting volunteers to assist with a project collating the history of the Great War as it affected all aspects of Welsh life, language and culture. The collection includes audio tapes of interviews with people … Continue reading
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Your Paintings
One of the many artworks held at the National Library of Wales will be projected onto buildings in three of Wales’s cities this evening as part of an event to celebrate Your Paintings – a website showing the entire UK … Continue reading
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