Unveiling of a statue of Tommy Cooper in Caerphilly

March 28th, 2008

comedianA 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.
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The Other D-Day

February 20th, 2008

coinBritain’s currency system changed on 15 February 1971. We have since used a decimal currency system, with a hundred pence to the pound.
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‘Land Girls’ have at last been awarded for their wartime work

February 12th, 2008

land girlsMembers 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.
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A Welsh Primitif

February 6th, 2008

primitifThere 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.
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The Last Deep Mine in South Wales Closes

January 29th, 2008

tower_menTower 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. More »

An unique bridge

January 29th, 2008

bridgeThe 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.
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Otter and trout: taxidermy by J. Hutchings of Aberystwyth

January 15th, 2008

otterThere is an exhibition at Ceredigion Museum at the moment tracing the history and showing examples of the work of the Hutchings family. More »

The Pound Note Disappears

December 17th, 2007

onepoundOn 12 November 1984 the pound note was replaced by the pound coin. More »

The First Airplane Flight in Wales

November 22nd, 2007

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Henry Howard James (1891-1958) and his brother John Herber James (1894-1944) were the first men in Pembrokeshire to build and fly their own aeroplane. They did this on 25 September 1913 and gained the county’s first Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificates.
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Culturenet Cymru praised in Westminster for promoting diversity on the Web

November 6th, 2007

nominetnews'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.
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Community Archives Wales

November 6th, 2007

Communities' 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. More »

Capturing felons at the Urdd Eisteddfod

July 5th, 2007

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Children had a taste of the past at this year’s Urdd Eisteddfod as Culturenet Cymru used image manipulation software to place their faces on prisoners from the nineteenth century. More »

Welsh Assembly Election 2007

May 3rd, 2007

Etholiad1 As the people of Wales determine the nation’s future by casting their votes in the Assembly election, here’s an opportunity to learn about the elections and political campaigns of the past on Gathering the Jewels.

Among the items seen on the Gathering the Jewels website, there are ballot boxes, election pamphlets and posters, and election songsMore »

‘Surf’ to Patagonia on the new Glaniad website

March 16th, 2007

A Welshman in Patagonia See thousands of fascinating images from the Welsh settlements in Patagonia on Culturenet Cymru’s latest website, Glaniad. Visit the Glaniad website here.

On Monday 19 March 2007 the new website that recounts the history of the Welsh settlements in Patagonia was officially launched at Cardiff City Hall. More »

Greetings on St David’s Day

March 1st, 2007

dewia How much do you know about Wales’s patron saint? Learn more about St David …

The shortage of real historical evidence about St David is more than made up by the colourful legend that evolved in the centuries following his death. More »