Following a collision with an iceberg, the #Titanic tragically sunk #onthisday in 1912

🗞️Read the report from The Rhondda Leader

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🏇Two horse and jockeys - Kyffin Williams

#GrandNational

I appreciate the welcome yesterday by the staff 🎵 Welsh Music Archive 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Nia Mai Daniel (hi/ei | she/her) Dan Griffiths as we deposited Part 2 of the Rhys Mwyn Archive National Library of Wales
Sure to give them a shout out on Monday's radio show Radio Cymru bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07…

Thanks to Rhys Mwyn for calling in National Library of Wales with more items for his archive. Exclusive cassettes, a great collection of gig posters 😍, and papers about Hen Wlad Fy Mamau, Super Furry Animals and more.

Bro Helyg School have travelled from Nantyglo, Blaenau Gwent to have fun whilst creating tv.

Welcome to the Library!

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Bro_Helyg

Which tv jobs did the pupils of Bro_Helyg school have in the broadcast workshop?

I will be at National Library of Wales #Aberystwyth 11am on June 8th for #Wales100Records book event with Georgia Ruth hosting. Come over for a talk on Wales and music! Croeso mawr i chi! Free tickets; ticketsource.co.uk/llgcnlw/t-rpdr…

Join us National Library of Wales on May 17 for #CartoCymru2024 . Our subject is the people behind the maps
Lewis Morris is known as a poet & scholar, but he was also a mapmaker, most famous for his charts of Welsh harbours. Find out more ticketsource.co.uk/llgcnlw/ar-lei…
CBHC / RCAHMW BRICMICS British Cartographic Society

🔵The Library will be lit in blue tonight to raise awareness about Parkinson's disease.

Parkinson's UK

The first speaker at this year's #CartoCymru2024 symposium will be Dr Douglas Lockhart, former Lecturer in Geography at Keele University 🐿️, who will join us to talk about 'George Robertson (1783-1845) land surveyor, farmer and factor'.

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This is Krish. He travelled from London to Aberystwyth to read a single book which he couldn’t find anywhere else.

This is a photo of him with a manuscript from 1350 containing stories from the Mabinogi.

Best of luck with the podcast Krish!

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🛵 Could this be one of the first electric scooters?! This nifty model is being test run for factory use in Burry Port (News, 1966)

We're delighted to have two students from Information Studies joining us for work placements this term. Phoebe has been helping us organise our Ordnance Survey collections and Alex is sorting newly acquired European maps ready for cataloguing 🌍♥️🗺️

On national #LibraryWorkersDay , we’d like to thank all of our staff for their hard work in collecting, preserving and providing access to our national heritage.

Join us National Library of Wales on May 17 for #CartoCymru2024 . We will be talking about #Cartographers , the people behind the maps
Humphrey Llwyd is one of this countries most celebrated mapmakers, having created the first map of Wales as a country in 1568. Find out more ticketsource.co.uk/llgcnlw/t-rpdp…

Heads up to all Students. This years Carto-Cymru has a special £5 online offer for Students. This hybrid event has a range of excellent speakers (myself included 😜) on the theme of 'Maps and their Makers'. If your interested in all things #Maps & #Wales please do come along!

It was a pleasure to welcome attendees from the Evostar international conference to the Library before they returned home the four corners of Europe.

🗺️Humphrey Llwyd’s 'Cambriae Typus' is the earliest printed map to show Wales as a separate region. Published in 1573, it’s one of a million and a half sheets of maps, charts and plans held in the National Library.

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#MapMonday

🎨Love art? Want to help the Library's work?

An opportunity to volunteer at our next big exhibition.
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