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Professor Richard Wyn Jones pictured at the National Library of Wales with a shelf of books in the background

The Welsh Political Archive Annual Lecture 2025

This year's lecture was given by Professor Richard Wyn Jones, Cardiff University

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Celebrating our trustees

Celebrating our trustees

Celebrating our trustees on National Trustees’ Week

A scan of a the front page of the Radio Times, Oct. 29 1943. Featured on the page is a listing for the Cairo Eisteddfod which is referenced in this blog post.

The Wales Broadcast Archive and the BBC

Lowri Jenkins picks out some highlights from her time working with the BBC on the Wales Broadcast Archive Project.

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Sue Williams, Unblushing, 2002

The Power of Looking

New exhibition at the National Library unpacks portraiture and the power of looking

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Aberystwyth Ceredigion becomes Wales’s first UNESCO City of Literature

Aberystwyth Ceredigion becomes Wales’s first UNESCO City of Literature

Aberystwyth Ceredigion recognised by UNESCO for the area's contribution to literature

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A close-up of two grey video tape cases, large white labels on their front identifying the contents as 'Turpin Super 8 Transfers'.

Unboxing - Randolph Turpin’s home movies in the Eurwyn Williams collection

The Screen and Sound Archive's Moving Images cataloguer reflects on research and working cross-collections.

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One dark night: Tales of the ‘Cannwyll Corff’

With Halloween approaching, we take a look through the archives at this spooky Welsh superstition

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Painting of Dr Gaynor Legall by Joshua Donkor

Joshua Donkor’s Commissions

New portraits commissioned as part of the Welsh Government’s Anti-racist Wales Action Plan.

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New Appointment: Climate Action Programme Lead for the Culture Sector

New Appointment: Climate Action Programme Lead for the Culture Sector

New role to drive forward the sector’s response to the climate and nature emergencies

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