Morgan Goronwy Rees, writer and university administrator was born at North Road, #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion #Wales #onthisday 1909 buff.ly/3SNMgdP #WelshHistory Also @aberuniarchives.bsky.social NLW Archivist 📷 @MediaWales

Edward Edwards born #OnThisDay 1865 ‘Teddy Eddy’, lecturer from 1892, Professor History/ Hanes Aberystwyth 1895-1930, and UCW Vice-Principal 1923-1932 “We have always regarded him as one of us - the greatest compliment a university student can ever pay his teacher” The Dragon, Vol. LII. No.2

Sir Hugh Owen, pioneer of education and founder of Aberystwyth University was born at #Llangeinwen, #Anglesey #onthisday 1804 buff.ly/3tNPuUx #WelshHistory #Wales Also @aberuniarchives.bsky.social

📢Students Information Studies are settling in well. Over the next few months, they will be working on a recently accessioned collection of papers and photos AU Department of Law & Criminology 👀Follow their progress each week with updates on #DISstudentproject

.Information Studies students on the #DISstudentproject Also @aberuniarchives.bsky.social have found this judicial wig belonging to Professor T.A Levi (1874-1954), first chair of Law Aberystwyth University and key in developing the AU Department of Law & Criminology department.

Many thanks to former law lecturer Richard Ireland for meeting with the Information Studies students this week! Providing a good basis of knowledge of the project's history as well as adding Thomas Levi's Judicial tags to the collection #DISstudentproject

Humphrey Owen Jones, Welsh chemist and mountaineer, was born at Goginan, Cardiganshire, #onthisday 1878 buff.ly/3SJYmD9 #WelshHistory #Wales Also @aberuniarchives.bsky.social 📷 Royal Society Publishing

This week @infostudiesaber students are pleased to present this image of the University College of Wales boat crew – Holders of the 1910-11 Aberystwyth Challenge Cup – featuring Professor T.A. Levi and Idwal Lloyd, who shared an intense rivalry! #DISstudentproject

This picture of the 1913-14 Law Department, taken outside the Old College by H. H. Davies of Pier Street, was of particular interest to Information Studies students this week in the class's 110th anniversary year. #DISstudentproject

Happy #StDavidsDay! “Do the little things in life” #StDavidsDaysoirée 1911

From #Aberystwyth to #NewYork - be inspired by Dr. Kathleen Carpenter in the latest copy of The Niche British Ecological Society - just in time for #InternationalWomensDay! #womeninscience #Wales 🐟

This week Information Studies archives students came across this intriguing graphic. It shows by percentage which parts of the U.K . applications to the AU Department of Law & Criminology Dept. came from between 1989-1991. #DISstudentproject

Despite not being permitted to practice law until 1919, women have been contributing to legal practice at AU Department of Law & Criminology Dept. since its formation as shown in this image which was of interest to Information Studies students this week during #WomensHistoryMonth. #DISstudentproject

Kathleen Edithe Carpenter, ecologist who proved that the toxic effects of metallic salts killed minnows, trout and sticklebacks in Cardiganshire rivers, was born in #Gainsborough, #Lincolnshire #onthisday 1891 buff.ly/48OnP4a #WelshHistory #Wales 📷 Also @aberuniarchives.bsky.social

.Information Studies students present the oldest department photo found so far, the 1910-11 class at the Old College was just the ninth year ever for AU Department of Law & Criminology. This also was the first year Law Department staff contributed to the Aberystwyth Studies journal. #DISstudentproject

Society throwback! This week Information Studies students came across a 100 year old photo of the Political Union at U.C.W. (1924-1925). One notable member is D.J. Llewelfryn Davies, former student turned head of the AU Department of Law & Criminology Department. #DISstudentproject

Do you want to use an archive but have never done so before? We asked staff from archives across Wales for some top tips for visiting an archive for the first time, here are their answers: archives.wales/?p=3631 📜📜📜 #archiveadvice #archive30

Update on the #DISstudentproject: With one week to go, packaging and cataloguing are well underway on the AU Department of Law & Criminology Dept. records. @infostudiesaber students are very excited to see the collection coming together nicely!