Ref. LS50166772 Grade 6 (£23,166-£27,394) Glamorgan's Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins - Cataloguing and Conserving the Records of the National Coal Board Glamorgan's Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins is a project funded by the Wellcome Trust to catalogue and conserve the records of the Glamorgan area of the... read more →
Aug
22
Aug
05
The Olympics are underway in the carnival city of Rio. Rio de Janeiro's carnival is the world's largest, with some two million people taking part each day, designing and creating outrageous costumes and performing to the sound of samba music. Over the years communities across south Wales have recreated the... read more →
Jul
27
Glamorgan Archives has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Resources Grant of £203,456 to catalogue and conserve the records of the National Coal Board (NCB) for the Glamorgan area. This is the second largest Research Resources Grant awarded in the UK, and the largest ever awarded in Wales. The project... read more →
Jun
06
This summer, after more than half a century since they last participated in a major tournament, the Welsh football team are aiming for victory in Euro 2016! With France hosting the tournament, here at Glamorgan Archives we're taking a look at all things French. Glamorgan Archives made its own ‘French... read more →
Apr
26
In the early months of 1916 the Great War was well into its second year and the news from the front was far from encouraging. With stalemate in France attention had turned to the Mediterranean and the Near East. The mood was extremely gloomy with the last troops being evacuated... read more →
Feb
29
At first glance this order of service for St David’s Day in 1943 (reference D1197/1) looks fairly conventional, with a number of Welsh hymns being sung, prayers in Welsh and English and the singing of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. However, this was no ordinary St David’s Day service as it... read more →
Jan
13
On 4 October 1857 Edmund Matthews and Stephen Anderson, aged 11 and 12, appeared at Cardiff Borough Petty Sessions court on a charge of stealing two sacks worth 4s. On the same date Sarah Taylor, aged 13, was charged with stealing 100lb of iron from the Taff Vale Railway Company. ... read more →
Dec
15
2015 marks the centenary of the establishment of the Women’s Institute in the UK. The WI was first established in 1897 in Ontario, Canada, as a branch of the Farmer’s Institute. When the first WI opened its first UK branch, in Llanfairpwll, Anglesey in September of 1915, its primary... read more →
Sep
29
Rugby fever has hit Wales and the world as the Rugby World Cup 2015 kicks off in Twickenham. The Welsh team begin their campaign on the home turf of the Millennium Stadium against Uruguay and will face a tough challenge in their group which includes formidable opposition in the shape... read more →