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Handwritten introduction to a petition on parchment.

Explore Your Archive: Silent voices being heard

The silenced working class may not have been able to vote, but they could make noise by signing petitions.

 

#EYASilence

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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?

 

#EYAMedieval

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Image of a scroll wrapped in paper and tied with string, next to the cover of a volume bearing the title 'Reading Old Handwriting'

Explore Your Archive: The Beauty of Archives

A love letter celebrating the power of collections

 

#EYABeauty

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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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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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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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