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Women's History Month - Evelyn Cheesman - Manchester University Press To mark Women’s History Month and the publication of her new book Wildly different, we asked historian Sarah Lonsdale to profile the five pioneering women she focuses on, bringing their fascinating st...

Who wants to read about the first woman keeper of insects at London Zoo, and how she cut her way out of a giant spider's web with her nail file? Evelyn Cheesman, the second of the five women in my book:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/03...

Mae’r darlun yma o Arolwg Capeli Morgannwg Ganol yn dangos Eglwys y Methodistiaid Wesleaidd ar John Street, Treharris, a adeiladwyd ym 1900.

More information on the collection can be found on our catalogue

canfod.glamarchives.gov.uk/en/records/M...

This image from the National Coal Board collection was taken on this day 75 years ago, on 12 March 1951.

It shows a patient being examined by a physiotherapist at Talygarn Miners’ Rehabilitation Centre.

This year's David Pinkney Prize goes to Miranda Spieler for Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. Congratulations!

Day 12 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US #peace activist and organizer Addie Hunton!

Hunton rethought Black #internationalism and promoted racial justice as a condition of peace. To quote Melinda Plastas, she “helped usher in a reconfigured Black political consciousness."

#herstory #blackhistory

Tynnwyd y llun yma o gasgliad y Bwrdd Glo ar y dydd hwn 75 mlynedd yn ôl, ar 12 Mawrth 1951.

Mae’n dangos claf yn derbyn triniaeth gan ffisiotherapydd yng Nghanolfan Adfer y Glowyr Talygarn.

Talygarn – “… probably the most beautiful convalescent home in the country” The photographs featured in this article show one of the many great mansions to be found in Glamorgan. However, if you look carefully, you will notice that the rooms have been stripped of their orn…

You can read more about Talygarn on our blog

glamarchives.wordpress.com/2022/07/21/t...

Today is School Archives Day

This week we’ve welcomed classes from Ysgol Coed-y-Gof and Hywel Dda Primary to the Archives. They visited to discover more about the development of the housing and community at Ely and Caerau.

Thank you for visiting.

#20s30s

2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction long list Checkout out this list on Bookshop

If non-fiction is more your thing, the Women's Prize long list for non-fiction is here: uk.bookshop.org/lists/2026-w...

Celebrating #BritishScienceWeek with this corker, a 1970s #CardiffUniversity psychology lecture – smocks, headbands, and cardies oh my! 🔬🔭🧪🧫 Join our #digitalarchives project here: gwentarchives.gov.uk/en/partnersh... #Science #ScienceInAction 🔬🔭

Dathlu #WythnosGwyddoniaethPrydain gyda’r clamp yma o lun, darlith seicoleg ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd yn yr 1970au - Penrwymynnau, smociau a chardiganau, mawredd!
🔬🔭🧪🧫Ymunwch â’n prosiect archifau digidol yma: gwentarchives.gov.uk/cy/partneria...

Exhibition ‘In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine’ In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine  Friday 6th March - Sunday 4th October The fourth exhibition of our In Focus - In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine is now open. This exhibition gives an in depth look at t...

This #WomensHistoryMonth, check out the new exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum, 'In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine', and find out about this St Bartholomew's Hospital nurse and her life's work in the fight for women's rights
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/exhibition-i...

One of the most important parts of the medieval Abbey was College Garden, which was used to grow food and medicinal herbs and was home to a fishpond and beehives. The gardener's expenses are recorded in these handwritten accounts in our archive.

#ExploreYourArchive #EYAWildlife

Severn rail bridge glimpsed at low tide – 66 years after disaster The Severn Railway Bridge – site of a tragic disaster in 1960 – has lain under silt for decades.

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

I'll be speaking at the US Queer Bibliography conference on why Wales' LGBTQ+ history is constantly ignored in the UK. Free to tune in around 4.15 on Thursday bibsocamer.org/events/calen...

#WomensHistoryMonth

🎊 Happy #ExploreYourArchive Day! 🎊

This month's theme is #EYAWildlife 🐘

Let's celebrate the wild and wonderful items in our collections 🐅

Tag us in your posts or use our hashtags!

The Founding of Cardiff Medical Society: The Doctors Who Shaped the City

Mae’r cyhoeddiad newydd yma yn lansio heno!

Darganfyddwch mwy draw ar wefan Cymdeithas Feddygol Caerdydd www.cardiffmedicalsociety.org/publications

The Founding of Cardiff Medical Society: The Doctors Who Shaped the City

This new publication launches tonight!

Find out more over on the Cardiff Medical Society website www.cardiffmedicalsociety.org/publications

#OnThisDay in 1801, the first national census of the UK was carried out. Since then, census records have been an important resource for tracing family history. Find out where you can access all the available UK census records with our guide:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

Ooh what a stunner! 🪷🏵️🌸

Our next #FamilyHistory Show will be in St Ives, Cambridgeshire on Saturday 18th April 2026. There will be stallholders, talks, helpdesks and lots of people to talk to and help with research. Book now! www.fhf-reallyuseful.com

#BritishScienceWeek ☎️

Mae’n Wythnos Gwyddoniaeth!

Yn y llun yma gwelwn ddisgyblion wrth eu gwaith yn labordy ffiseg Ysgol Uwchradd Tonypandy. Mae’r llun yn un o nifer sydd o fewn albwm a luniwyd ym 1925, sy’n dangos disgyblion, staff a gweithgareddau ar draws yr ysgol.

Gift in perpetual fee farm of two roods of turbary lying within the liberties of the town of Hardelaghe [Harlech] in a place called Y gorse.

Seal pendant; red wax; fine imprint.

Dyddiad/Date: 1577 MOSTYN/3531

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors
#LanhydrockHouse National trust refurbed the ceiling something rotten, it's excellent.
#Cornwall.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforinside

#POW camp in South Wales that had a #greatescape, 70 legged it in 1945.
Volunteers open the remaining building of the camp up on occasions and there are excellent talks how it came to be.
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This week is #BritishScienceWeek!
#Boho #Biba #student fine-tuning a #supercomputer! Glorious 1970s image from the #CardiffUniversity Institutional Archive – a visual collection charting the university’s history 💾🖨️📼 #womenshistorymonth gwentarchives.gov.uk/en/partnersh...