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These pictures contain pioneering freshwater ecologist Kathleen Carpenter, nee Zimmerman. She is known for her studies of the effects of metal pollution on Welsh rivers and her book Life in Inland Waters. Items from Aberystwyth Uni Archives. #InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience

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Transforming Collections Care at Gwent Archives: An update: archives.wales/2025/02/05/t...

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Uned Myrddin’s Adventure in the Archives: archives.wales/2025/01/20/a... Carmarthenshire Archive Service

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Are you are already thinking about booking travel to somewhere a little warmer?☀️For Christmas 1888, Rachel M Allen swapped the Welsh wintry weather for the hot, sandy, and exotic environs of Egypt. You can read about her adventures in this blog. Her journals can be viewed at Pembrokeshire Archives.

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❄️📷☃️It's been a wintry few days across Wales this week. These snowy scenes of Haverfordwest taken by Joffre Swales in the late-1960s are from a collection at Archifdy Sir Benfro / Pembrokeshire Archives

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Four months after the start of the Second World War, food rationing began in Britain. The first items to be rationed were bacon, butter and sugar. This ledger from Llangaffo Post Office covers WW2 and includes a list of those registered for Jam, Treacle and Syrup. Item from Anglesey Archives

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These are the 1979 Junior Common Room committee minutes for a Swansea University halls of residence. It was agreed “The Warden will remind people that there is to be no throwing of food at the Xmas Dinners”. It was also stated that the ‘Xmas Brawl...is to be continued’. From Swansea Uni Archives

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During WW2 Christmas shopping was much harder, with a lack of luxuries & gifts on the market. The British public were encouraged to save & make '... a contribution to the greatest gift of all- Victory' via Christmas saving stamps. From Swansea Uni Archives. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasGifts

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During WW2 Christmas shopping was much harder, with a lack of luxuries & gifts on the market. The British public were encouraged to save & make 'a contribution to the greatest gift of all- Victory' via Christmas saving stamps. From Swansea Uni Archives. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasGifts

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This handwritten letter was sent in the early 1900’s reads “Dear Father C’mas I should like very much to have a horse and a sword if you have got one left with much love and many kisses from George Carbery Pryse Rice XXXXXXXXX. Item from Carmarthenshire Archives, ref: Aberglasney, box 31

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Receipts of Hearth Tax paid by John Colby on houses at Llanycefn and Bletherston, dated 2nd May 1673. Pembrokeshire Archives, ref: HDX/207/9 #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Chimney #Simnai 🔥

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We might think of Christmas cards as a very modern invention, but they're not. This postcard, addressed to Lillian Jenkins of Merlin’s Bridge, Pembrokeshire, has a postmark of 25th December 1903! Pembrokeshire Archives reference: D/JEN/160 #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasCards

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Records of a local Pantomime Company are ‘Now Showing’ at North East Wales Archives! Read all about it in our latest blog: archives.wales/2024/12/09/c... 🎭🎪

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Many archives have online catalogues, some even have digitised collections, that you can view online, for free! Check out your local archive’s website and see what you can discover!

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Archives hold the keys to history. You can find information on so much, from your local area, your own house or street, to large political movements and social history. There's so much to discover in your local archive!

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One of the coastline’s most familiar #Animals, especially to anyone carrying a pastry, are seagulls. The gulls have been here as long as we have, as seen in this photo from 1931, taken in Llandudno. Item from Conwy Archives.

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A page from the Christmas Book of Janet Gnosspelius. The book features what look like lists of Christmas presents to give out, and drafts of her annual home-made cards, this one from 1964 being a little cat looking at a coat of arms. Item from Cardiff Uni Archives.

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It’s always lovely to find documents with animals in archives, like this photo from Conwy Archives. It shows a couple out on a picnic with a dog for company, taken around 100 years ago.

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A postman makes his rounds with the help of a horse and cart near the Swan Inn (Llanfair Talhaiarn), c.1900. Item from North East Wales Archive, item reference: PPD/56/19

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This is a banknote issued by the short-lived Aberystwyth and Tregaron Bank. It was occasionally known as Banc y Ddafad Ddu, due to the black sheep on the notes, with the number of sheep featured on the bank note corresponding to its value in pounds. Item from Bangor University ASC: BMSS/61

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A postcard from Pembrokeshire archives featuring points of interest around Tenby, and of course, a little cat in the middle!

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This photo from c.1900 shows a mother and baby taking a nice photo, though the children in the back look a little bored with the whole thing! Item from Conwy Archives.

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Gladstone’s Library holds the Glynne-Gladstone Archive, containing items from the Glynne and Gladstone #families. The thousands of items in this archive give us an incredible view into not just William Ewart Gladstone, 4 times Prime Minister, but his entire #family.

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Gwent Lesbian & Gay Group was established in April 1986. GLAGG organised a monthly #disco, newsletters, meetings, trips & writers' groups. They also worked to spread information on HIV and AIDS. Item from Gwent Archives (Ref: D6466) #LGBTHistory #LGBT

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This illustration is from "May-day: A Fairy Tale" by A. S. Gulston, 1882. Alan Stepney Gulston of Derwydd was an amateur artist, traveler, author, and even the High Sheriff of Carmarthen for a time! Doesn’t it look a little like a #disco? Item from Carmarthenshire Archives

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This image from a manuscript in the National Library of Wales shows two constellations. A man grasping a snake, Serpentarius (now called Ophiuchus), and a giant scorpion, Scorpius. The combining of the signs into one image might be because Ophiuchus is right above Scorpius in the sky.

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The @librarywales.bsky.social BBC Scripts collection includes around 250,000 television and radio scripts. They are perfect for taking a trip down memory lane. What were your favourite radio and television shows when you were younger? archives.wales/2024/11/24/t...

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Ancient Egypt, with its history and #mythology has long attracted tourists. This travel journal from 1888 charts a journey to Egypt, including a cruise on the S.S. Rameses where the author visited many ancient Egyptian sites. Item from Pembrokeshire Archives.

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It’s good to see that people haven’t changed, even back in 1565 people doodled on their work. This “Deed to lead the uses of a recovery and fine" features an intricately drawn dragon! From the (Bangor) Mostyn Manuscripts collection at Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (MOST/386)

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Pontardawe Lawn Tennis Club members looked very stylish in 1898. Item held by West Glamorgan Archives.

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This photo of a little girl in Welsh National Dress is part of an album linked to Hendrefadog School, Ferndale, Rhondda, held by Glamorgan Archives.

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Did you know the The National Library of Wales building is over 100 years old? The huge building was designed by architect Sidney Greenslade, who won the competition to design the building in 1909. Construction began in 1911, and by 1915 the building was ready to be occupied.

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Several elephants from Bertram Mills’ circus parade through Notts Square in Carmarthen, 1882. One of them even seems to be carrying a cannon on its back! You can see they drew quite a crowd. Item from Carmarthenshire Archives (Ref no. CDX/640)

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A very interesting blog by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, featuring this tiny doorway from Penrhyn Old Hall, Llandudno. rcahmw.gov.uk/doorways-insi...

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This is Winifred Coombe Tennant of Swansea: a suffragist and delegate to the first League of Nations Assembly in 1922. She was the first British woman to fulfil this role. West Glamorgan Archive Service hold the Tennant Estate collection, which holds details about her extraordinary life.

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This postcard shows Dorothy Curtis of Penarth in her work uniform. Like many other women, Dorothy stepped up during WW1 to work in a munitions factory. She signed the back of the card ‘With much love from Trousers’. Item from Glamorgan Archives.

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This list from Archifau Môn Archives gives us some evidence of the pubs on Anglesey in 1898, it lists the Landlord's names too. Pubs are a part of British culture and lists like this help to trace that cultural heritage. Do you have a favourite local?

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This is the food served at Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet’s coming-of-age party in 1770. There must have been dishes galore for the over 15,000 guests to choose from! There were also around 25,000 pints of ale and 1440 bottles of wine! Item from North East Wales Archives: Ref no. D/HE/635

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Hello! Explore Your Archive week starts this Thursday. Keep tuned over the next week (and a bit) to find out what Welsh archives have to offer! We’re so excited to show you!

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