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Paintings and drawings

The paintings and drawings collection includes: 4000 framed items 8000 mounted items  Over 500 Drawing Volumes Contemporary work Contemporary works include pictures…  

Pictures

The Library collects pictures that illustrate or portray places in Wales, people of Welsh background who live in Wales and other places, as well as individuals who have played a part in Wales’…  

Welsh school magazines

This list is incomplete but should include all current Welsh school magazines and newspapers received by the Library as well as back numbers of most titles. We are anxious for our collection to…  

Community newspapers

An A-Z list of Welsh language community newspapers published in Wales, with an appendix of ones that have ceased publication. *Available in Welsh only. A YR ANGOR Papur bro…  

The press in Australia

Emigration from Wales to Australia increased at the beginning of the second half of the 19th century, and Welsh-speaking communities grew in the states of Victoria and New South Wales. Australian…  

The press of the Welsh colony in Patagonia

During the second half of the 19th century the government of Argentina was eager to attract immigrants from Europe to colonise its southern territory. A number of Welshmen took the opportunity to…  

The press in The United States of America

There was a constant stream of emigration to America from Wales during the first half of the 19th century and by the 1840s a number of Welsh communities existed in Wisconsin and Illinois. History…  

English magazines

It was during the 19th century that the English-language periodical press developed in Wales. The first English periodical in Wales, namely The Cambrian magazine was published at Llandovery in…  

The earliest magazine

The periodical press in Wales was slow in developing. In 1735 the first Welsh periodical, Tlysau yr hen oesoedd [Gems of past ages], appeared from the press of Lewis Morris in Holyhead,…  

Women and children's magazines

Children's magazine A large number of children's periodicals were published from 1823, when Addysgydd [The Instructor] appeared, to the end of the century. The overwhelming majority were…  

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