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Lifelogging and bloggers who record their daily events are not just a twenty-first century phenomena. Archives Assistant Sarah Thompson explores examples from our Archive collections to look at ways in which people have been recording their daily life throughout the centuries. One of the earliest examples of daily life in the local area was discovered…Continue Reading Daily Life Records in the Archives
Music played an important part of cultural and community life in the South Wales Coalfield. Brass bands, choirs, jazz bands and operatic societies were formed to raise money and spirits. Talents were showcased at local or National Eisteddfodau and miners’ galas. Choirs and Operatic Societies Jazz bands Brass and silver bands Eisteddfodau and Galas…Continue Reading The land of song- music in the South Wales Coalfield
We hold a number of letters patent and patent specifications in our collections, but knew very little about them, or the innovations they might reveal. Do they hold much research potential? Surely they would only contain minimal details, to protect from imitations? We did some digging to find out more… Very basically, a patent gives…Continue Reading Investigating innovation