An exiting new archive has arrived @nlwales - The papers of crossbencher Lord David Rowe-Beddoe - Conservative Party fundraiser, Chair of the Welsh Development Agency and Wales Millennium Centre Welsh Conservatives 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Conservative History Group

📢 PhD Alert!

🎨 Augustus John: Reassessing Collections at Museum Wales and National Library of Wales

A doctoral studentship in collaboration with Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales National Library of Wales University of Bristol and Aberystwyth University re-evaluating works of the Welsh artist Augustus John

👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

Llewelyn Kenrick, one of the founders of the Football Association of Wales organized the first international association #football match between #Wales and #Scotland in #Glasgow #onthisday 1876 buff.ly/4cm3iHk #WelshHistory FA WALES Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The popular singer Dorothy Squires who became the highest paid female singer in the UK, was born in her parents' carnival caravan in #Pontyberem , #Carmarthenshire , #Wales #onthisday 1915 buff.ly/3IIoiKT 🎵 Welsh Music Archive 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #WelshHistory

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 📷 Aberystwyth University Archives

Poet Huw Machno is said to have died at Coed-y-Ffynnon in 1637
He was renowned for his eulogies, descriptive verses & ‘poems to women’
Over 150 of his poems have been preserved in manuscript at National Library of Wales
Learn more here:
biography.wales/article/s-HUW0…
coflein.gov.uk/en/site/26304/
#PoetryDay

Mr & Mrs H. Hamshaw Thomas Welsh Biography presented a paper 'On the Ancestry of the Caytoniales' in 1925 British Science Association Southampton
#womeninscience
biography.wales/article/s2-THO…

Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan), minister, writer, author and nationalist, and one of the 1st to call for #Welsh independence, was born in #Abergele , #Conwy #onthisday 1848 buff.ly/3x3aBDE #Welsh History #Wales

Charles Alfred Edwards, metallurgist and principal of University College of #Swansea , #Wales , was born at #Kitchener , #Ontario , #Canada #onthisday 1882 buff.ly/3TJcVIK #WelshHistory 📷 The Royal Society

Blodwen Myfanwy Haycock, artist, poet and author was born in #Pontnewynydd near #Pontypool , #Monmouthshire , #Wales #onthisday 1913 buff.ly/43okiII #WelshHistory

John Penry, Puritan author was imprisoned in the Poultry Compter for publishing #Puritan books #onthisday 1593 buff.ly/3PvzYEu #WelshHistory #Wales

Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, patron of Welsh culture, one of the main advocates of the triple harp, and 'inventor' of the Welsh national costume, was born at #Llanofer , near #Abergavenny , #Monmouthshire #onthisday 1802 buff.ly/3TmfVcN #WelshHistory #Wales

Gwenogfryn Evans, #Welsh palaeographic expert and literary translator was born in #Llanybydder parish #onthisday 1852 buff.ly/43sPfvG NLW Archivist #Welsh History #Wales

Orig Williams ('El Bandito'), footballer, wrestler, promoter and journalist was born at 7 High Street, Ysbyty Ifan, Caernarfonshire #onthisday 1931 buff.ly/3SrRZ8P #WelshHistory #Wales Screen & Sound Archive 📷 Archif ITV Cymru/Wales

#OnThisDay in 1878 Thomas Richards “Doc Tom” was born in Tal y Bont, Cardiganshire. He was University Librarian at Bangor between 1926-1945 and helped establish the Library as a place of deposit for many north Wales estate archives & manuscript collections.

Carmarthen, birthplace of Mary Warner (1932-1998)
Warner’s main research was making 'precise the property of imprecision.’ She made great contributions to this field, which became known as fuzzy mathematics
Learn more about her: biography.wales/article/s12-WA…
#DayofMathematics #EYAWomen

#InternationalWomensDay

Yesterday, we unveiled the #BluePlaque to commemorate Caroline Elizabeth Williams, a pioneer of education in Wales.

She founded the first Scholarship for women ever given at a Welsh University College.

#Wales #History

Mary Gladys Thoday, scientist, suffragist and peace-campaigner, was born in Chester #onthisday 1884 buff.ly/3Tr7SMW #WelshHistory #Wales 📷 Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives

Alice Helena Alexandra Williams (Alys Meirion), writer, artist, and voluntary welfare worker was born at Castell #Deudraeth , #Penrhyndeudraeth #onthisday 1863 buff.ly/3wR9mqO #WelshHistory #Wales Portmeirion

Rhag ofn bod gennych amser bnawn dydd Mawrth 12 Mawrth 2024.