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Social impact

People’s Collection Wales The Library offers a program of activities, training opportunities and skills development sessions across Wales for learners of all ages, with much of this work taking…  

Wellbeing

Social Prescribing The Library’s Volunteering Unit collaborates with a number of agencies that support vulnerable or isolated people and refer volunteers to us. When working with people who are…  

Engagement

Volunteering – Celebrating 10 Years This year was a very special year as the Volunteering Scheme celebrated its 10th anniversary. More than 300 volunteers of all ages, abilities and backgrounds…  

Empower learning and research

Delivering the work Welsh Manuscripts: a ground-breaking contribution is published Dr Daniel Huws’ long-awaited Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800 was finally published…  

Be at the heart of national life

Delivering the work The Welsh Women’s Peace Petition A hundred-year-old Peace Petition signed by nearly 400,000 Welsh women has arrived back in Wales from the United States for the first time in…  

Lay the foundation for a knowledge economy

Delivering the work The Wales Broadcast Archive The Wales Broadcast Archive Centre was opened at the Library in March 2023 with the launch of the first national broadcast archive in the UK. By…  

Cultivate and care for the nation’s memory

Delivering the work The Dorothy Bonarjee Archive The National Library recently received a manuscript containingpoems by an Indian poet called Dorothy Noel ‘Dorf’ Bonarjee (1894–1983). She was…  

Delivering the Strategic Plan

60 000 works of art 2 134 000 meters of film 1 500 000 maps 950 000 photographs 150 000 hours of sound 6 000 000 books and newspapers 40 000 manuscripts 1 900 cubic meters of…  

The Black Book of Carmarthen

Reference: Peniarth MS 1 It is believed to be the earliest surviving complete manuscript written in the Welsh language. The Black Book of Carmarthen is now thought, by modern scholars, to be…  

Chronicle of the Princes

Reference: Peniarth MS 20 The Peniarth 20 manuscript includes several different texts, Y Bibl Ynghymraec, Brut y Tywysogion, Myrddin a Gwenddydd and Gramadeg Barddal. [iframe…  

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