Author: archiveswales

In December 2019 Cardiff’s Norwegian Church – a landmark in Cardiff Bay – will be celebrates its 150th anniversary.  Here, we take a look back at the history of the Church and the community it was built to serve. Cardiff’s multicultural population is by no means a recent phenomenon. The town's rapid growth during the … Continue reading The Norwegian Church, Cardiff

Archives across Wales have been getting ready to celebrate their services and collections for the Explore Your Archive week, which this year runs between 23rd and 30th November. The weeklong campaign encourages people to discover the stories, facts, places and people that are at the heart of Welsh communities. As part of the celebrations, Anglesey … Continue reading “Ail-gylchu’r Gorffennol” – a plastic waste project at Anglesey Archives

Primary school pupils have worked on a special art project to celebrate diversity and inclusion on Anglesey. Children from Ysgol Gynradd Amlwch joined Anglesey Archives, Oriel Môn and prominent North Wales artist, Jwls Williams, to trace the lives of two prominent Jewish families. Both the Pollecoff and Stein families emigrated from Russia to Anglesey during … Continue reading Pupils’ work celebrates diversity and inclusion

November 7th is World Digital Preservation Day. This is a global campaign, co-ordinated by the Digital Preservation Coalition, to raise awareness of the issues associated with the preservation of digital information. The theme of this year’s campaign is At Risk Digital Materials, but I would argue that all digital material is at risk, as the … Continue reading World Digital Preservation Day 2019

Flintshire Record Office and Denbighshire Archives are looking to merge to create a joint archive service in a new Archive Centre. It will comprise a repository for archive material along with public research rooms, exhibition space and education facilities. Staff from both services have already been working on various joint projects throughout the year. All … Continue reading Collaborative working at Flintshire Record Office and Denbighshire Archives

Oral history is something we have made much of in West Glamorgan Archive Service. This grew out of some sterling work done in the 1970s by a combination of individuals and groups using reel-to-reel tape recorders, which left us with a strong base of recordings of reminiscence interviews. Magnetic tape is quite fragile, so rather … Continue reading Oral history and community groups

“City and College should stand, shoulder to shoulder, facing the problems of life together” These words were written by a member of the Cardiff University Settlement in 1906. The settlement was a radical experiment in education and friendship between the University and its immediate neighbours. 113 years later, these words still sum up why we … Continue reading Fake News, Mental Health and Escaping the Library: Civic Mission in Archives and Libraries