‘Captain Cat, at his window thrown wide to the sun and the clippered seas he sailed long ago when his eyes were blue and bright, slumbers and voyages’ - Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

Happy #DylanDay !

#OnThisDay 1953 The first ever full cast performance of Under Milk Wood is staged in New York. Dylan's advice to the cast is 'Love the words' #DylanThomas

The Old Guildhall, #Swansea , was built in 1825-9 but closed in 1934. After a period of disuse, the building was substantially refurbished in 1995 and officially reopened as ‘The Dylan Thomas Centre’ by ex-president of America Jimmy Carter
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87 years ago today (12th May 1937), King George VI and his wife, Elizabeth, were coronated in Westminster Abbey. The loyal address given by members of the municipal corporations of Wales, England and Northern Ireland is accessible to everyone in our searchroom.

Some surprising artefacts might accompany a small number of documents from the strongroom... for example a helmet, uniform badges and part of an extinguishing device used by the National and Auxiliary Fire Services during the Second World War. Come and see what you can discover!

Yes, seafood has a long Swansea history: come & listen to Katherine Watson, Thursday 4 April 6:30pm Swansea Museum Katherine Watson All welcome!

The HeritageNPT team are very pleased to have been nominated for the Team NPT Awards 2024 in the Environment, Culture and Heritage Award category. Whatever the outcome it shows the teams dedication to the HeritageNPT project.

You may have spotted Rachel Ellen Jones in our Nurses film! She was the first Welsh woman to qualify as a chemist and druggist and she eventually became senior pharmacist at Swansea Hospital swansea.gov.uk/WomenRachelJon…
#womenshistory #WomensHistoryMonth #explorearchives

We were lucky enough to have been given a fantastic collection of slides showing life at Swansea General and Eye Hospital in the 1920s, giving us a unique look into the lives of the nurses who worked there swansea.gov.uk/WomenSwanseaHo…

#WomensHistoryMonth #ExploreArchives

#Swansea is well known for its pioneers of photography, Mary Dillwyn and Emma Dillwyn Llewelyn were the first female photographers in Wales! Some of Mary’s photographs are held at the archives. swansea.gov.uk/WomenPhotograp…

#ExploreArchives #WomensHistoryMonth

After an appeal from Swansea cabbies, Ford develops and delivers the first Granada diesel taxi (Report Wales, 1981)

#DigiTeamPicks #Wales BroadcastDigiProject #ITVCymruWales #Swansea #ArchiveFilm #Archives #16mm #Wales #taxi #FordGranada