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July 11th, 2008
Culturenet Cymru will be present at the National Eisteddfod again this year on the National Library’s stand and will be giving visitors an unique opportunity to get involved with our projects. More »

At a launch in the Senedd in Cardiff recently the new Communities Archives Wales (CAW)
Important excavation work began at Stonehenge in western England for the first time since 1964 on Monday, 31 March 2008.
A society of local people set up to pay tribute to Tommy Cooper, who was born in Caerphilly in 1921, raised £45,000 to commission a statue of the comic.
Britain’s currency system changed on 15 February 1971. We have since used a decimal currency system, with a hundred pence to the pound.
Members of the Women’s Land Army (WLA) and the Women’s Timber Corps (WTC) have campaigned for decades to award the women who worked the land during the Second World War.
There is an exhibition of the work of The Welsh Primitive at the moment at Carmarthenshire County Museum, Abergwili, near Carmarthen. The artist worked locally during the 19th century, but we don’t know anything about him or her. We don’t even know whether the artist was a man or a woman.
Tower Colliery in Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, closed officially on 25 January 2008. 239 miners bought Tower Colliery with their own redundancy money in 1995, a year after it had been closed.
The Transporter Bridge is a symbol of industrial development in Newport. In 1896 John Lysaght, from Wolverhampton, announced that he intended opening a steel works in the south-west.
There is an exhibition at Ceredigion Museum at the moment tracing the history and showing examples of the work of the Hutchings family.
On 12 November 1984 the pound note was replaced by the pound coin. 
Culturenet Cymru has been announced runner-up in the Diversity category of the Nominet Best Practice Challenge at the UK Internet Governance Forum in Westminster.
The Community Archives Wales (CAW) project is now up and running. During the next year, six communities in Wales will develop their own digitized community archives with the support of our dedicated team workers, Richard, Hannah, Siân and Paul. 







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