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Welsh Collection

The Welsh collection is the Library’s main collection of Welsh and Welsh language books. It is also the core collection of the National Library of Wales. The collection also includes publications…  

Printed materials

Books The National Library of Wales holds the largest collection of books in Wales. Books were first collected for the establishment of a National Library in 1873. The ‘Welsh Library’ was held…  

Useful links and research

The InterPARES project (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) Paradigm (The Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media Project) Digital…  

Raising awareness

06/07/10 'Evidencing Need and Providing Support: Digital Preservation Activities at The National Library of Wales' British Library Preservation Centre Event, The National Library of Wales …  

Guidelines for authors

Raising awareness about digital preservation is part of the work of the Welsh Literature Archive. Our most important data is often held digitally - and we can't afford to lose it. Data loss is…  

COF project

The literary archives of the future are likely to contain computer documents, e-mail messages, web pages and so forth, as well as papers and books. Rapidly changing technology offers us multiple…  

Music (17th-18th centuries)

This is a list of musical archives relating to the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 1. Estate and other records Bettisfields Estate Records Bettisfield Estate Records 1685 A…  

Rock opera and musicals

In the mid-1970s a new genre of Welsh music appeared, namely the Rock Opera or Musical, referred to in Welsh as the ‘Opera Roc’ and ‘Sioeau Cerdd’. Perhaps the best known Welsh Rock Opera is…  

20th century popular music

Highlights from our archives for folk, pop, rock and jazz music in Wales. Papers of the Welsh pop group 'Y Blew', the first Welsh language pop group. Includes letters relating to their…  

Illingworth

Leslie Gilbert Illingworth was born in Barry in 1902. He attended Cardiff Art School and then took a job with the Western Mail. He was then awarded a scholarship to Slade School of Art, and after…  

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