Sian Collins

Aberystwyth named Wales' first Unesco City of Literature The town and Ceredigion county was chosen due to its

BBC News: Aberystwyth named Unesco City of Literature
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's an amazing sky near Kidwelly this morning with just a hint of a rainbow 😍
Could be a sign of the stormy weather to come...🌧️💨🌊

Apologies for the blurry image - taken from a moving train!

An image with a square background. The image shows a photograph taken around 1916 to 1918. The photograph is in black and white, and shows the whole college at Swansea Training College. There are many people sitting outside in five ascending rows. Most are wearing white shirts and long skirts. Behind the crowd is a building. At the bottom of the image there is a horizontal teal line with the UWTSD logo in the left corner and the UWTSD library logo in the right corner. There is text between the logos that says “Whole college (Swansea Training College) with David Salmon c.1916 - 1918”.

On #worldteachingday let’s show appreciation for those who continue to dedicate their time, energy and passion into inspiring us to #learn. Here is a photo of the #SwanseaTrainingCollege c.1916-1918, which provided #teachers training from 1872 until it merged in 1974.

#UWTSDlib #SpecialCollections

An image with a square background. The image shows a photograph taken around 1916 to 1918. The photograph is in black and white, and shows the whole college at Swansea Training College. There are many people sitting outside in five ascending rows. Most are wearing white shirts and long skirts. Behind the crowd is a building. At the bottom of the image there is a horizontal teal line with the UWTSD logo in the left corner and the UWTSD library logo in the right corner. There is text between the logos that says “Whole college (Swansea Training College) with David Salmon c.1916 - 1918”.

Ar #ddiwrnodaddysgurbyd gadewch i ni ddangos gwerthfawrogiad am y rhai sy'n parhau i roi eu hamser, eu hegni a'u hangerdd i'n hysbrydoli i #ddysgu. Dyma lun o #GolegHyfforddiAbertawe c.1916-1918, a ddarparodd hyfforddiant #athrawon o 1872 hyd nes iddo uno ym 1974.

#LlyfPCYDDS #CasgliadauArbennig

Image shows a flyer for a musical play, A Big Day in Merthyr, performed by Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen on October 12 and 13, 1979. A red background with a simple black, stylized image of Stevenson’s “Rocket” with the following black text in Welsh: Diwrnod Mawr ym Merthyr Cwmni drama Ysgol Gyfon Rhydfelen Cerddoriaeth: Ann Hopcyn HYDREF 12, 13, 1979 Gan Emyr Edwards This collection is held at Glamorgan Archives

Our volunteers are working on scrapbooks compiled by Ysgol Rhydfelen, first Welsh comprehensive school to open in south Wales in 1962.
This is the flyer for a production of a Welsh language musical play, A Big Day in Merthyr, performed by the pupils in 1979 #EYAEducation #neverstoplearning 💞

Mae'r llun yn dangos taflen ar gyfer drama gerdd, Diwrnod Mawr ym Merthyr, a berfformiwyd gan Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen ar y 12fed a’r 13eg o Hydref, 1979. Cefndir coch gyda llun du syml, arddulliedig o "Roced" Stevenson gyda'r testun du canlynol yn Gymraeg: Diwrnod Mawr ym Merthyr Cwmni drama Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen Cerddoriaeth: Ann Hopcyn HYDREF 12, 13, 1979 Gan Emyr Edwards Cedwir y casgliad hwn yn Archifau Morgannwg

Mae ein gwirfoddolwyr yn gweithio ar ddetholiad o lyfrau lloffion a gasglwyd gan Ysgol Rhydfelen. Dyma'r daflen ar gyfer cynhyrchiad o ddrama gerdd Gymraeg, Diwrnod Mawr ym Merthyr, a berfformiwyd gan ddisgyblion Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen ym 1979 #EYAAddysg #paidstopiodysgu

Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England Exclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech

This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Screenshot of Zoom discussion with Sally Kent, Eleanor Parmenter, and event chair Helen Wakely on screen.

Thanks to Sally Kent & Eleanor Parmenter for sharing with #RLUKICIL reflections on @theul.bsky.social project w/ Zambian visual artists exploring new ways to engage with problematic material & collaborating outside library’s trad user base

📺 You can watch a recording of their talk at bit.ly/ICILOND

Tryweryn: How Capel Celyn was flooded to make water for Liverpool It comes 60 years since a Welsh-speaking village was flooded to supply Liverpool with drinking water.

BBC News: The thriving village flooded to make water for Liverpool
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have you registered yet for our annual conference in Aberystwyth, 4-5 October? Registration deadline is 25 September! The conference is open to everyone and includes talks and films relating to the history of women in Wales. Visit our website for details:
womensarchivewales.org/en/

A ginger cat resting on the floor of the entrance hall of Cambridge University Library.

In honour of #GingerCatAppreciationDay (which we're tempted to re-name #OdysseusAppreciationDay), here's our favourite marmalade-hued boy on a visit to the UL last week.

Why records surveys matter - Fiona Bourne from RCN sums it up record surveys = knowledge-organisational mapping, departmental analysis, records discovery, management, retention #ARA2025

RSPCA's Walk to Remember Help Alison Harding raise money to support RSPCA

I’ll be walking to remember the excellent Ronnie, but also her equally magnificent predecessors, Millie and Sally.

@rspcaoffficial.bsky.social

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

AI used to recreate faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia Researchers have used photos and records to create what Anglesey prisoners may have looked like.

BBC News: Faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia recreated by AI

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mae'r llun yn dangos manylion tudalen o un o lyfrau lloffion Ysgol Rhydfelen sy'n cynnwys darn o'r Pontypridd Observer yn adrodd ar Ddiwrnod Agored cyntaf yr ysgol yn ystod Wythnos Addysg, Tachwedd 23,1964. Mae'r casgliad llawn yn cael ei gadw yn Archifau Morgannwg.

Mae ein gwirfoddolwyr yn gweithio ar ddetholiad o lyfrau lloffion a gasglwyd gan Ysgol Rhydfelen, yr ysgol gyfun Gymraeg gyntaf i agor yn ne Cymru yn 1962.
Yn ôl y Pontypridd Observer, yn Niwrnod Agored cyntaf yr ysgol yn 1964, roedd rhieni yn "hapus iawn" 😊 #DyddMawrthTrawsgrifio

Image shows detail of a page from one of the Ysgol Rhydfelen scrapbooks containing a newspaper cutting from the Pontypridd Observer reporting on the school’s first Open Day during Education Week in November 23,1964. The full collection is held at Glamorgan Archives.

Our volunteers are working on a selection of scrapbooks compiled by Ysgol Rhydfelen, the first Welsh comprehensive school to open in south Wales in 1962.
According to the Pontypridd Observer, at the school’s first Open Day in 1964, parents were “well pleased” 😊
#TranscriptionTuesday

A grey sign with white writing stands in front of an old tree. The sign reads: I am very old and need to rest. Please don't sit on me

Just another relatable National Trust sign

A figure made of coffee sacks rests on a tiny stool in a gallery. Part human, part big cat - a long tail curls behind and feline ears droop at the head. Faint details of a face suggest a cat-like nose.

Laura Ford’s sculpture Beast on display in the Tigers & Dragons exhibition at Glynn Vivian, Swansea. A little forlorn; a reduced diminished power who may rise up one last time or who may weaken & fade away. Her figures have such presence it’s easy to believe they might suddenly twitch into life.

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Hello Bluesky! We are a working partnership funded by Welsh Government to deliver a digital archives volunteer project. Our global family of remote volunteers work on digital collections to make them more accessible. More info here: gwentarchives.gov.uk/en/partnersh...

Michael Sheen’s revived Welsh National Theatre to be based in Swansea Welsh actor stepped in after previous Cardiff-based national theatre company closed owing to £1.6m funding cuts

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It’s been v exciting to see so much media interest in the amazing 1588 Welsh Bible loaned to @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social by Westminster Abbey for #CALCA2025 😍

Visitors to @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social today were also thrilled to get a glimpse!

A large copy of a Welsh-language edition of the Bible, opened at its title page, in a library

This rare edition of the Bible from the Abbey's collection dates from 1588 and is the first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language.

We're delighted to be lending the Bible to @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social‬ where it will go on public display for the first time this week.

Rare Welsh-language Bible to be displayed at St Davids Cathedral The rare copy of the Bible in Welsh, printed in 1588, has never been displayed before.

Very much looking forward to attending the CALCA conference this week @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social and seeing this amazing Bible 😁
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Welcome to the archives.

If you write abt 'the archive' but don't engage with or acknowledge archival studies literature
...
please know that your arguments
▪️have no to limited validity
▪️remain theoretical, oblivious to arch praxis
▪️lack understanding and depth
▪️don't account for the infrastructure/materiality of archives

Close-up portrait of Odysseus, a ginger tabby cat wearing a blue collar.

The cat that rules the library. Odysseus relaxing outside @theul.bsky.social last Sunday. #Caturday

Bangor University to reconsider cuts to archive service The proposed archive service cuts are part of the university's cost-saving plans which risk 78 jobs.

BBC News: Bangor University to reconsider cuts to archive service
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A medieval person in bed covered in blankets

A man and a woman sitting a table, eating a meal

Walking and swimming

A man in a canopied bathtub with a table of food

💅Self-care, medieval style…

🛌Catch up on sleep
🥗Eat a good diet
🏊Do some exercise
🛀Have a bath

We hope you spent your bank holiday doing at least ONE of these things, which are all recommended in this beautiful manuscript, once owned by Elizabeth of York (MS Ii.5.11). #CuriousCures

'Gwerthfawr': Dros 1,700 yn arwyddo deiseb i arbed archifdy Prifysgol Bangor rhag toriadau Mae deiseb wedi ei chreu er mwyn arbed archifdy Prifysgol Bangor rhag toriadau posib.

'Bygwth dyfodol un o bileri Prifysgol Bangor'

Mae dros 1,700 o bobl wedi arwyddo deiseb er mwyn arbed archifdy Prifysgol Bangor rhag toriadau posib