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This is brilliant! Sidoli and Fulgoni are proper classics. And we're smiling at the factory canteens, don’t worry, your secret’s safe with us! 😀

The dog, well spotted! Did you have a favourite cafe to visit back then?

Migration to Britain, 1750 to 1900 Explore this collection of sources from the British Library and other archives, and watch our short film to learn more about migration to Britain from 1750 to 1900, with a document of labels providing...

The Padlet brings together sources and a short animation exploring the people, their journeys, and the lives they built in Britain.

Take a look: bit.ly/BLMigration1...

📷 @rcahmwales.bsky.social / Photograph kindly loaned for copying by Mr A. Conti

The photograph "Conti brothers outside first café in Ystradgynlais" from our website is featured in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Discovering Historical Sources KS3/GCSE resource on migration to Britain, 1750–1900.

Some impressive gymnastic moves!

Alan Player helping youth club members to tumble over a pommel horse. Taibach Youth Centre, Port Talbot (now Taibach Community Education Centre), likely 1970s.

Photo: Hannah Player / Taibach Community Education: Past to Present
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Did you know you can download the booklets for all the women's heritage walks WAW has done since 2021, and follow the routes yourself? Go to our website: www.womensarchivewales.org/en/womens-he...

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Throwback to when window displays looked like this.
Photo: Pioneer Stores, Cemaes
Via: Elgan
bit.ly/PioneersStores

#History #Archives

Now retired and living in Ffostrasol, Ceredigion, Dennis shared his memories as part of the West Wales Veterans Archive.

His collection includes personal photos, objects and a filmed interview about his military service.
bit.ly/DennisPikes

Dennis Pikes was born in 1932 in Herefordshire and served with the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.

He completed a long and arduous tour in Korea from 1951 to 1952, patrolling the front line and facing intense conditions.

The beautiful windows of Pantperthog Chapel 
Photo taken in 2011.

Via Julia Gunn / ceinwsarchive
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#WindowsWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday

#ArmedForcesDay

When I see people commemorating those who served and died in conflict, I think of these men.

These are the eyes of some of the hundreds of First World War soldiers who were admitted to the Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum following their time in active service.

#histmed #Wales

A stone slab chamber on a grassy verge with cars passing

Wishing everyone a hot & humid #TombTuesday 🔥☀️

Here are some cooling vibes ❄️⛄ from winter 2022, at the fabulous Gwernvale Neolithic tomb near Crickhowell, Powys

Once much larger, as #CPAT excavations demonstrated, now sadly a ritual monument on a roadside verge

Yes, you can just picture them trying to balance that giant stone and all without modern machinery!

Pentre Ifan is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic dolmen in Wales. Its massive capstone, weighing around 16 tons, rests on three upright stones.

Photo: Carys Morgan
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#TombTuesday

The Gwent Lesbian and Gay Group was formed in April 1986 as an alternative to the #Cardiff gay scene. The group organised monthly discos at Lazers, #Newport and were active in raising money for the Gwent AIDS support group.

#PrideMonth

Image showing a view across Cardiff, featuring Westgate Street, Temperance Town, the Central Station and Penarth head in the background.

It was great to welcome the latest cohort of Invisible Cardiff trainees to the Archives today.

We spent some time exploring documents relating to the history of Cardiff and discussing ideas for tour of the city.

This isn’t just any old pelican, this is Pete the Pelican!

Photographer Douglas Davies won a certificate of merit in the Wallace Heaton photographic competition with this shot, awarded on 6 February 1954.

Photo via Nichola Rees
bit.ly/PetePelican

#Photography #History #Wales

The William Bulkeley Diaries

Date: 1718-1760 HENBLAS A/18-19

The diaries, along with a full transcript are available to view here freely: bulkeleydiaries.bangor.ac.uk

This photograph shows Blaenffos Chapel, Pembrokeshire, being reopened by its oldest member following renovation works in 2005.

But we don’t have the names of the people in the photograph. Can you help us put names to faces?

Photo: Lon Vaughan
bit.ly/BlaenffosChap

#AdoorableThursday

Subordination and Devastation: Two Sea Voyages from the Port of Cardiff Glamorgan Archives holds crew agreements and log books for ships registered at the Port of Cardiff for the years 1863-1913 (ref.: DCA).  The following incidents illustrate two extraordinary occurre…

Today is the Day of the Seafarer

You can read about some of the seafarers who sailed from Cardiff on our blog. Including those aboard the Talca carrying coal to Australia 1869-1870. And the Afonwen, docked in Messina, Sicily, in December 1908 whilst also carrying coal bit.ly/4njd6XW

Old Welsh sycamore butter spoons with hooked handles.
#antiquetreen

Royal House is a medieval building situated on Penrallt Street, Machynlleth. It is said that Dafydd Gam was imprisoned here from 1404 to 1412 for attempting to assassinate Owain Glyndŵr. 

Photo: W.H.S. & S.LTD London 16763-38 / Ray Gunn / ceinwsarchive
bit.ly/RHMachynlleth

#history #archives

A view 'over the top' for the soldiers of the 2nd Monmouthshire Regiment in the trenches at Le Bizet, April 1915.
bit.ly/LeBizet2nd
📷 The Royal Welsh Museum / Byrde Evelyn

Text reads: We're hiring! Senior Digitisation Coordinator Fixed-term contract to 31st March 2026 Part-time, £32,000 per annum (pro rata) Work from home, anywhere in Wales Apply by 9am on Friday 4th July 2025'

We're hiring 📣

Do you want to help people discover the art and objects in Welsh museums?

We're looking for a skilled and organised Senior Digitisation Coordinator based in Wales 👉 buff.ly/m0km3dH

#ArtJobs #Digitisation #Wales #MuseumJobs

How’s this for #WindowWednesday?

St Paul’s WWI Memorial Stained Glass Window.

Photo: Richard Watkins
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eglwys fodern, Cwmbran

Mae angen eich help chi arnom! Mae gennym lond bocs o luniau heb unrhyw wybodaeth bellach. Allwch chi #EnwiYCapel?


Efallai bod hwn yn Cwmbran, ger yr ystad ddiwydiannol...?.

#GwentArchives #SirFynwy #capeli #Cwmbran

Swansea Stained Glass Archive Available to the Public for the First Time The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) is delighted to announce the launch of the Swansea Stained Glass Online Archive, a newly digitised and searchable collection of hundreds of stained ...

The Swansea Stained Glass Archive is available to the public for the first time. Martin Crampin from CAWCS said: “We’re delighted to make these fascinating works of art available for international researchers and the wider public.” Further information 👇
www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/swansea...

Chambered tomb at Tŷ Illtud, near Llanfrynach

It's named after Illtud, an early medieval saint, and features incised graffiti, possibly dating back to that time.

Photo: @rcahmwales.bsky.social
bit.ly/TombTyIlltud
#TombTuesday