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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: August 2013
Hywel Dda of Boston goes online
Following the successful purchase of the Boston Manuscript of the Laws of King Hywel Dda at Sotheby’s last year, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth …
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Get to know our staff!
Once a month, I will introduce you to some of our staff here at the Library. There are 300 people working here all playing a …
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Ghost Stories
Interested in the supernatural? Want to hear spine chilling ghost stories by candlelight? If so, come and listen to the Reverend Towyn Jones, from Carmarthen, …
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Reading at The National Library of Wales
Becoming a reader at The National Library of Wales has its many advantages and one of them is being able to reserve various novels for …
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Organic Enclosures
I recently read that in 1953 staff at the British Library found some eighteenth century condoms made from sheep-gut which had been used as book-marks …
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Home and Away
Festival of Welsh Documentary Photography 22-23.11.2013 An opportunity for professional and amateur photographers, archivists and collectors, historians and journalists to discuss photography in Wales and …
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1,000,000 pages of Welsh history to 1910 online, free of charge.
The National Library recently published 10 new titles to Welsh Newspapers Online Titles include: Y Cymro (Lerpwl ar Wyddgrug) Papur Pawb Llais y Wlad Y …
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The Boston Manuscript Inspected
Paul Russell, Professor of Celtic at the University of Cambridge, and Secretary of Seminar Cyfraith Hywel, acted as our academic advisor in the purchase and …
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