New Digital Resources

Although our building is closed at the moment a great deal of work has continued behind the scenes and since June the following items and collections have been made available to view from home on the Library’s website and/or the catalogue:

Archives and Manuscripts

Peniarth Collection

• Dares Phrygius and Brut y Brenhinedd (Peniarth MS 25)
• English poetry (Peniarth MS 351)
• Llyfrau geiriau (Peniarth MS 308)
• Caernarvonshire sheriffs (Peniarth MS 494)
• A diary and a letter book (Peniarth MS 416i)
• Tour on the Continent(Peniarth MS 499)
• Civil war and Commonwealth letters (Peniarth MS 495)

Wynn (of Gwydir) Papers: (1515-[c. 1684])

Almost 10,000 images of personal papers and papers relating to the public offices of members of the Wynn family of Gwydir, Caernarfonshire have been made available. 2,786 items from the Sir John Williams Group, 1519-1683 (NLW MSS 463-470) and the Panton Group, 1515- [c. 1699] (NLW MSS 9051-9069) can be found in the catalogue.

Sir John Herbert Lewis Papers

8 diaries in the Sir John Herbert Lewis Papers from the period 1925-1933 are now available:

• Diary 1925 (B39)
• Diary 1925 (B40)
• Diary 1928 (B41)
• Diary 1929 (B42)
• Diary 1930 (B43)
• Diary 1931 (B44)
• Diary 1932 (B45)
• Diary 1933 (B46)

Gareth Vaughan Jones Papers

Passport of Gareth Vaughan Jones, 1930-1934 (B5/3)

Printed Material

Early Welsh Books Collection

2,470 volumes are available on the catalogue, including the notable works of William Salesbury A dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe, [1547], Kynniver llith a ban [1551] a The descripcion of the sphere or frame of the worlde [ca. 1553]), the first part of Gruffydd Robert’s grammar, Dosparth byrr ar y rhann gyntaf i ramadeg cymraeg (1567), Drych y Prif Oesoedd [1716] and Cyd-gordiad egwyddorawl o’r Scrythurau [1730].

Biographies

900 biographies are now available through the catalogue, including titles such as:

• The trial of Governor T. Picton : for inflicting the torture on Louisa Calderon (1806?)
• Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S. (1815)
• The life, adventures and vicissitudes, of Mary Charlton, the Welsh orphan, written by herself and dedicated to her own sex, whom she hopes will honor her little narrative, with a candid perusal (1817)
• The trial of John Frost, for high treason (1840)
• The eventful life, and wonderful history of that most notorious character, swindle, and forger, Charles Price (1800?)
• Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons : interspered with ancedotes of authors and actors (1827)
• Dramatic tales and romances … : from John Catty, the Welsh Rob Roy (1840?)

More biographies will be released over the coming months.

First World War

A selection of printed materials relating to the First World War have been released:

• Albert Thomas, Aberthau ac amcanion gweithwyr y cad-reidiau Ffrengig … (1915)
• Charles Humble Dudley-Ward, History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T.F.), 1914-1918 (1927)
• David Lloyd George, Eich Gwlad a’ch Cais: araith gan David Lloyd George; wedi ei chyfieithu gan J. Morris Jones (1914)
• David Lloyd George, The Task Before Us (1915)
• David Lloyd George, Drwy arswyd i’r orsedd: apel at y genedl gan ganghellyd y trysorlys … (1914)
• J. Vyrnwy Morgan, The War and Wales (1916)
• John Morris Jones, To the Welsh People (1916?)
• Welsh Army Corps, 1914-1919: Report of the Executive Committee (1921)
• A History of the 38th (Welsh) Division (1920)
• General History of the Belgian Refugee Movement in the Union … (1915)
• At Drigolion y Plwyf Hwn (1915)
• Bulletin Issued for the Information of Belgian Refugees in Cardiff (1914)
• Ond Pam y Lleddaist Ni? (1915)

Maps and Graphic Material

Map collection

Idris Mathias’s manuscript map of the lower Teifi valley.

Portrait Collection

A further 970 items from the Portrait collection have been made available, including images of individuals such as: Cranogwen; “Old Ellen Lloyd”; Edward Ellis y Gof, Blaenau Ffestiniog inventor of the ‘car gwyllt’; Elizabeth Lloyd, ‘Beti Bwt’ and John Ballinger, S. K. Greenslade, Evan Davies Jones and Sir John Williams with the American Ambassador, the Hon. Whitelaw Reid at the National Library of Wales site, 1 November 1912.

Dictionary of Welsh Biography

16 new articles have been added to the website:

• Bonarjee, Dorothy Noel (1894 – 1983), poet and lawyer
• Cannon, Martha Maria Hughes (1857 – 1932), doctor and politician
• Carpenter, Kathleen Edithe (1891 – 1970), ecologist
• Davies, John Salmon (1940 – 2016), scientist
• Edwards, Huw Thomas (1892 – 1970), trade unionist and politician
• Francis, Gwyn Jones (1930 – 2015), forester
• Goldswain, Brynley Vernon (1922 – 1983), rugby league player
• Gridley, John Crandon (1904 – 1968), industrialist
• Jones, Owen Vaughan (1907 – 1986), obstetrician and gynaecologist
• Lockley, Ronald Mathias (1903 – 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author
• Miles, William James Dillwyn (1916 – 2007), local government officer and author
• Perrot family, Haroldston, Pembrokeshire
• Roberts, Edwyn Cynrig (1837 – 1893), pioneer in Patagonia
• Scarrott, John (1870 – 1947), boxing promoter
• Thomas, Ronald Stuart (1913 – 2000), poet and clergyman
• Warner, Mary Wynne (1932 – 1998), mathematician

Morfudd Nia Jones (Digital Content Officer)

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