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Welsh Events

The election of Michael Foot Michael Foot was born in 1913, and stood as the Labour Party candidate in Monmouthshire in 1935. He was not elected but did win the seat of Plymouth Devonport in the…  

Welsh Politicians

Aneurin Bevan 1897-1960 Aneurin Bevan was born in Tredegar, the son of a coal miner, and he too went to work as a miner. During his time underground, he developed socialist principles, and won…  

World Leaders

Joseph Stalin 1879-1953 Joseph Stalin was one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. Born in Georgia, he joined the Bolsheviks, and after the death of Lenin in 1924 he became…  

Trade Unions

The period 1945 to 1969 saw unprecedented growth in the UK economy, to the extent that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was able to tell the electorate ''Most of our people have never had it so…  

Cold War

The goal of defeating a common enemy had kept the Soviet Union and the USA as allies during the Second World War, but once the threat of Nazism had been removed, the traditional suspicion between…  

Second World War

Illingworth's first cartoon was published in the Daily Mail in November 1939, a few weeks after the declaration of war between Britain and Germany. His cartoons until 1945 primarily deal with the…  

Space Race

The world changed forever on 4 October 1957, when the Soviet Union announced that it had launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik 1; the space race had begun. Less than a month later, the…  

Printed material

Other Printed Material available to view Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh bards ... The second volume Reference: XM1742 J851 B2 e25 (4to) Hên ganiadau Cymru = Cambro-British melodies, or…  

Welsh Landscape

Introduction The National Library of Wales' collection of topographical and landscape prints reflects the Library's interest in Welsh material. The collection consists of a wide array of views…  

How the images were digitised

Welsh Landscape - how the images were digitised Original, archive files were captured in uncompressed TIFF format. These files were archived as pc format TIFFs. Cropping, image size, unsharp…  

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