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Early mapping of Wales

The earliest extant maps showing Wales are general maps of the British Isles or Europe. Often the detail of Wales is limited; often few if any place-names are shown and the coastline is highly…  

Tithe maps of Wales

Tithes were payments made from early times for the support of the parish church and its clergy. Originally these payments were made in kind (crops, wool, milk, young stock, etc.) and usually…  

List of information assets

The information that is produced, or held or disseminated by the National Library of Wales as part of its public task is subject to the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 (SI 2015…  

PSI Regulations

Public Sector Information Regulations The Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No.1415) make public sector information easier to re-use. Cultural sector public bodies are…  

Legal deposit for printed publications

Legal deposit has existed in English law since 1662. It helps to ensure that the nation’s published output (and thereby its intellectual record and future published heritage) is collected…  

Acts, regulations and guidelines

Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013 Government Guidance to the Non-Print Works Regulations 2013 Irish Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000…  

Using Legal Deposit Material

What is available? Anyone who has a National Library of Wales reader’s ticket has access on our premises to millions of UK and Irish publications. The National Library of Wales receives this…  

Legal Deposit Libraries Web Archive

The UK Web Archive is currently unavailable Read our UK Web Archive blog for updates on access, information about other web archives, and where to find more information about what is in the UK Web…  

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Bilingual Correspondence Rydym yn croesawu galwadau a gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwch yn derbyn ymateb yn Gymraeg ac ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi.  / We welcome calls and…  

Dylan Thomas

Welcome to the online ‘Dylan’ exhibition. To many, Dylan is two things alone, a poet and a drunk. But what about the prose and the humorous letters, the broadcasts and the recordings, the father,…  

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