Historic Newspapers and Journals

 

The National Library of Wales is currently undertaking its most ambitious digitisation project ever. The project aims to digitise 2 million pages of historical newspapers and periodicals relating to Wales and the Welsh. It will provide new ways of searching this digital collection through the Library’s website – wherever and whenever it is convenient to the user and completely free of charge.

 

This £3 million project is partly funded by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Strategic Capital Investment Fund and will be launched during 2012.

 

 

Have your say - thank you

 

Thank you to everyone who took time to fill in our newspaper and journal questionnaire. The information collected is being used to form a specification that will reflect the views of our users, and ensure that we create a new valuable digital service.

 

 

Kyffin Williams Bequest Project

 

Cataloguing and digitisation project of the artwork and archives of the artist, received as part of his bequest to the Library.

 

 

Portread

 

Digitising portraits at The National Library of Wales

 

Geoff Charles

 

Photographs of Wales and the English border during the Second World War

 

Wales-Ohio Project

 

New perspectives on Welsh migration

 

 

Welsh Journals Online

 

Welsh Journals Online will be a new web resource, available free to all. It will contain searchable texts of all the major Welsh and Wales-related journals, including academic, cultural, literary, scientific, historical, archaeological and political publications in Welsh and English.

 

NLW, supported by WHELF, has received funding from JISC and the Welsh Assembly Government to undertake the scanning and indexing of 400,000 pages in the project.

 

The resource was launched in March 2009.