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What's on

The Archive takes part in a number of screenings and events across Wales and beyond and collaborates with partners on a range of relevant projects. We attend events and festivals and visit…  

Training

Training for the cultural sector on planning, identifying and caring for, digitising, cataloguing and providing access to sound recordings Sound recording technology has been with us for well…  

Unlocking Our Sound Heritage

Unlocking Our Sound Heritage is a five-year project, led by the British Library and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim is to digitally preserve rare and unique sound recordings. NLW is…  

Broadcast

Since 1982, the Archive has been recording programmes of Welsh interest broadcast on Britain’s main television and radio channels, and this is the only place where you can gain easy access to them.…  

Music

The Archive collects music which has a Welsh connection; whether it be a Welsh group, artist or material produced in Wales and beyond. The collection encompasses a wide variety of different musical…  

Sound

The Archive is home to a vast collection of published music recordings on shellac, vinyl and CD’s as well as many unique tape recordings reflecting different aspects of Welsh life. An oral…  

Film

The film collection represents a rare and unique moving image record of Wales, Welsh culture and life in Wales from the late 19th Century through to the 21st Century. Comprising over 5 million…  

ITV

In 2012, the Archive acquired ITV Wales's film and video archive dating from 1958, which includes over 200,000 items. Hundreds of landmark programmes and pioneering broadcasts are contained in…  

Audio visual collection care

Audio-visual media are fragile by nature, and some of them have only a short life span. This means that much maintenance work is needed on collections such as these. A continual programme of…  

Audio visual collections

The collection has a wide range of content. It encompasses every aspect of the culture and life of Wales and the Welsh as it has been chronicled by the audio-visual media, in sound, video and film…  

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