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A close up of a medieval seal cast in red wax and featuring the sigil of a lion

Explore Your Archive: People, plague, and the Pope

What can charters tell us about medieval Wales?

 

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Explore Your Archive: The Beauty of Archives

A love letter celebrating the power of collections

 

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Manuscript pages gathered and pressed in a wooden binder

Explore Your Archive: The Welsh Land Tracts

To kick off #EYA Week, we take a look at the process of conserving a manuscript of Welsh-American history

#EYAConservation

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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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