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Research Guides

Glamorgan Archives has produced a selection of research guides on popular subjects and series of records to help you get started in your research.

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Our catalogue, Canfod, contains descriptions of over 180,000 items in our collection and is regularly updated with descriptions of new records we receive and new catalogues we create.

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Glamorgan Archives serves the County Borough Councils of Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Vale of Glamorgan and the City and County of Cardiff.

What’s on

Glamorgan Archives organises regular FREE events which anyone is welcome to attend.  Our events are based on themes which link to our collections and connect to the community we serve.

Keep an eye on our Events page for details of what’s coming up!

Events

“I hope you will do what is Just and right to a poor and infirmily poor man”: The Voices of the South Wales Poor, 1834 to 1871

“I hope you will do what is Just and right to a poor and infirmily poor man”: The Voices of the South Wales Poor, 1834 to 1871

  • 05/11/2026
  • 2:00 pm
  • Glamorgan Archives, Leckwith, Cardiff.
    Join Dr Paul Carter of the National Archives and discover more about their new project, A Century of Struggle: Pauperism and the New Poor Law in Wales, 1834-1930. This talk will focus on the lived experience of the 19th century Welsh poor with an emphasis on the Southern Welsh counties....
    The Windsor-Clive Women Who Shaped St Fagans Castle

    The Windsor-Clive Women Who Shaped St Fagans Castle

  • 25/11/2026
  • 2:00 pm
  • Glamorgan Archives, Leckwith, Cardiff.
    Join Dr Bethan Scorey as she discusses female patronage at St Fagan’s Castle, drawing on one of the themes from her newly published book, ‘St Fagan’s Castle: The Architectural and Social History of a Welsh Country House’. Dr Bethan Scorey is an architectural historian and illustrator from Cardiff.  Her work...

    Exhibitions

    Hughesovka: An Industrial City with Welsh Roots

    Hughesovka: An Industrial City with Welsh Roots

  • 15/09/2026-31/12/2026
  • All Day

    This exhibition traces the rise of Hughesovka—later Stalino and today Donetsk—from a windswept site on the Ukrainian steppe to a major industrial city with lasting Welsh fingerprints. View the exhibition here: Hughesovka: An Industrial City with Welsh Roots - Glamorgan Archives
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