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Changemakers

Changemakers 19 October - 1 March 2025 Upper Central Hall Kenyan photojournalist Mohamed Amin (1943 – 1993) became famous for documenting the Ethiopian famine in 1984 which had a powerful impact in…  

Portraits

Portread: Welsh Portraits Online The National Library of Wales’s Portrait Collection is the largest collection of Welsh portraits in the world, comprising over 65,000 items in many different…  

Drawing Volume 50 and 51

Reference: NLW Drawing vol. 50 and 51 [iframe src=https://viewer.library.wales/dist/uv.html#?manifest=https://damsssl.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/1238135/manifest.json&locales=en-GB:English…  

Thomas Jones, Pencerrig

View Thomas Jones, Pencerrig's manuscripts Thomas Jones, like many other artists, left behind written as well as visual material. Although no extensive personal archive exists, three major…  

Goronwy Owen

Reference: NLW MS 11568B Goronwy Owen (1723-1769) was one of Wales's most important poets of the eighteenth century and a master of the cynghanedd (described in the University of Wales dictionary…  

Payments to a serving maid

Article from the National Library of Wales Journal vol. 1, number 2 (Winter 1939) Original Documents I. Dress and dress materials for a 'serving maid,' Circa 1600. Little has been written so far…  

Laws of Hywel Dda

Peniarth 28: illustrations from a Welsh Lawbook Daniel Huws XKD 9430 H9B (4to) Cyfraith Hywel, the law of Hywel, was the name by which their native law was known to the Welsh in medieval times.…  

Mapping the coastline

Learning toolkit The designs of Lewis Morris and William Morris helped sailors sail ships safely along the coast of Wales. Creating nautical charts in the 18th century wasn't easy, the work of…  

County maps

Following the publication of Cambriae Typus, Humphrey Llwyd’s map of Wales, in 1573, other cartographers began to produce more detailed mapping of Wales, some of which focused on individual…  

Maps of Wales

The earliest surviving maps that show Wales are general maps of the British Isles or Europe. Often the detail of Wales is limited, only a few place-names are shown and the coastline is highly…  

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