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Image: Imagining History: Wales in fiction and fact

Imagining History: Wales in fiction and fact

12th November - 13th November 2021

Imagining History Conference, 12-13 November, hosted online by the University of South Wales, with an accompanying exhibition at Oriel y Bont, USW. Event supported by WAW.

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Avril Rolph Bursary

14th October 2021

The Avril Rolph Bursary, worth £200 and a year’s free membership of the Archive, was won in 2021 by Amy Reynolds for her paper on ‘Sexuality and Sanctity: Female Religious Expression in Medieval Wales’.

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Image: Winter Zoom Lectures

Winter Zoom Lectures

13th October 2021

The first talk in this year’s series of Zoom lectures this winter will be delivered by Emma Baines on Wednesday 13th October at 4 pm. Her topic will be ‘Women of West Wales: A bigger picture’. The talk will be in English and places are limited to 100. Register via email to info@womensarchivewales.org.

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Image: Women's Heritage Walks

Women's Heritage Walks

7th October 2021

Another walk and booklet has been added to our Women's Heritage Walks 2021. The Newport Women’s Heritage Walk features notable and important women of the BAME community, an Italian shopkeeper, a Head-teacher and Suffragist and the famous Lady Rhondda of course.

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    Archif Menywod Cymru / Women’s Archive Wales promotes the recognition of women in Welsh history and the preservation of sources of women’s history in Wales.

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    Photograph of Gertrude Rosewarne, a Red Cross Nurse in the First World War.

     
    I chose this image because it was a very popular one with the British public as it shows a woman in the traditional role as a carer, unlike later images of women munitions workers or members of the armed forces. This photograph of Gertrude Rosewarne was brought to me in the Archive’s Roadshow in Llanelli by her great nephew.
     
    It is an honour to be the President of AMC/WAW because of its valuable work in rescuing the sources of our history and enabling historians to bring our history to a wide audience.
     
    Emeritus Professor Deirdre Beddoe, President and Founder Member of Archif Menywod Cymru/Women’s Archive Wales

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