Friday, 26 June 2020

New Project - Prosiect Newydd!

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Aberystwyth at War: A people's voices in a people's war  1939-1945 At the end of the WWI project Aberystwyth at War 1914-1919:...
Thursday, 21 November 2019

Aberystwyth at War online digitial map

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The digital map is one of the most innovative of the project legacy outcomes.  Over the course of the project, a succession of volunteers, g...
Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Broken Families: A Legacy of War

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An Aberystwyth Soldier Family From t he Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard, 13 th July 1917  There can be no doubt of t...
Wednesday, 9 October 2019

The Volunteer Training Corps in Aberystwyth

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Following the deployment of the BEF to Belgium in August 1914 and the first reports of British casualties sustained during the Battle of the...
Thursday, 26 September 2019

The Penparke or Darllenfa Sewing Circle - Part Two

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During the war the Penparke group  frequently responded to direct requests from various groups and organisations. For example, they sent pyj...
Monday, 23 September 2019

The Penparke or Darllenfa Sewing Circle - Part One

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At the outbreak of war in 1914 women were faced with very limited choices in the ways that they could contribute to the war effort. The choi...
Monday, 9 September 2019

The first Aberystwyth Branch of the YMCA

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Many readers will have enjoyed a previous blog about establishing the YMCA in Aberystwyth in 1917.  Many branches of the YMCA were establish...