The National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies. It is the biggest library in Wales, holding over 6.5 million books and periodicals, and the largest collections of archives, portraits, maps, and photographic images in Wales. The Library is also home to the national collection of Welsh manuscripts, the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, and the most comprehensive collection of paintings and topographical prints in Wales. As the primary research library and archive in Wales and one of the largest research libraries in the United Kingdom, the National Library is a member of Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL).
Welsh nationalism emphasises and celebrates the distinctiveness of Welsh culture and Wales as a nation or country. Welsh nationalism may also include calls for further autonomy or self-determination, which includes Welsh devolution, meaning increased powers for the Senedd, or full Welsh independence.
Thomas Gee, was a Welsh Nonconformist preacher, journalist and publisher.
Thomas Stephens was a Welsh historian, literary critic, and social reformer. His works include The Literature of the Kymry (1849,1876), Madoc: An Essay on the Discovery of America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd in the Twelfth Century (1858,1893), and Orgraff yr Iaith Gymraeg (1859), as well as a number of prize-winning essays presented at eisteddfodau between 1840 and 1858. He was the first Welsh historian and literary critic to employ rigorous scientific methods, and is considered to have done more to raise the standards of the National Eisteddfod than any other Welshman of his time. Stephens also figured prominently in efforts to implement social, educational and sanitary reforms both locally in Merthyr Tydfil and more broadly throughout Wales.
The media in Wales provide services in both English and Welsh, and play a role in modern Welsh culture. BBC Cymru Wales began broadcasting in 1923 have helped to promote a form of standardised spoken Welsh, and one historian has argued that the concept of Wales as a single national entity owes much to modern broadcasting. The national broadcasters are based in the capital, Cardiff.
Eluned Morgan was a Welsh-language author from Patagonia. She was raised in Y Wladfa, a Welsh colony in Patagonia, and was taught to speak both Welsh and Spanish. Her father eventually enrolled her in Dr Williams' School in Wales, where she had to learn the English language. She led student protests against the school's English-only policy, which prohibited the use of Welsh by its students.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1891 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1859 to Wales and its people.
Ieuan Gwyllt was the bardic name of Welsh musician and minister John Roberts. His bardic name is derived from the pen name he used whilst writing poetry as a boy, Ieuan Gwyllt Gelltydd Melindwr. He was born at Tanrhiwfelen, a house just outside Aberystwyth, and died in Caernarfon on 14 May 1877. He was buried at Caeathro cemetery near Caernarfon.
Gwilym Richard Jones was an editor and poet, and the first person to have received all three major literary awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. The Eisteddfod is an event at which it is notoriously difficult to achieve an award without merit, as the judges will often attribute no prize if they feel that the quality of the work submitted does not meet the standards required. Jones was awarded the Bardic Crown in 1935, the Chair in 1938, and the Prose Medal in 1941.
Eleazar Roberts, sometimes also spelt Eleazer, was a Welsh musician, translator, writer and amateur astronomer. Roberts's family moved to Liverpool in England while he was an infant, but despite this he retained a strong link to his country of birth and was a fluent Welsh speaker. He wrote for several Welsh journals and travelled Wales, setting up music classes. He is most notable for pioneering the tonic sol-fa method of sight-singing in Wales, which in turn led to the strengthening of the practice of congregational singing.
The Baner ac Amserau Cymru was a weekly Welsh language newspaper, distributed throughout Wales and in the Liverpool area. It contained local and national news and information. It was formed by the amalgamation of Baner Cymru, which had been founded in 1857 by Thomas Gee, and Yr Amserau in 1859. The bookseller and writer Ellis Pierce wrote for the Baner. It ran until 1972 when it was replaced by Y Faner, which folded in 1993.
The Old Library is a Grade II* listed building in Cardiff, Wales. It is located in the centre of the city at the northern end of The Hayes. Originally the Cardiff Free Library, it was used as the city's Central Library until it was replaced in 1988. It has been used for other purposes since that time and is currently the home of the Cardiff Story museum and the Welsh College of Music and Drama.
David Lloyd Davies was a Welsh singer and poet. He began composing poetry at an early age, and a number of englynion style poems composed when he was 16 were published in 'Yr Amserau'. He is known to have competed and won prizes at a number of eisteddfodau, and to have won the chair at the Eisteddfod in Bethesda, Caernarfonshire in 1867. In the 1950s and 60s he conducted a number of choirs in the Llanfachreth, Llwyn Einion, Rhyd-y-main, and Towyn areas of Merioneth, and is known to have composed a few pieces of his own music around the same time.
The 1902–03 Welsh Amateur Cup was the thirteenth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Druids Reserves who defeated Bangor Reserves 4–0 in the final, at The Racecourse, Wrexham.
Isaac Foulkes was a Welsh author and editor.
The 1906–07 Welsh Amateur Cup was the seventeenth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Buckley Engineers who defeated Aberystwyth 2–1 in a replayed final at Newtown.
John Lloyd Davies was a Welsh lawyer and politician, originally from the Aberystwyth area, who represented Cardigan boroughs in Parliament between 1855 and 1857.
Y Ford Gron (Scranton) was a 19th-century Welsh language periodical first produced in January 1867, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by Thomas Walter Price and William Aubrey Powell. Its content, literary articles and reviews, and poetry and news from Wales, was aimed at the Welsh American population. The ability of Welsh migrants to America to maintain their language and culture are evident in this publication and others such as Y Drych and Yr Amserau.
John Griffith was a Welsh journalist based in London. He was known by his pen name "Y Gohebydd".
