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Category: Focus Week

November 29, 2024November 29, 2024Blog, Focus Week, Uncategorized

Focus Week – Dances and Decisions at the Haverfordwest Assembly Rooms

Assembly rooms in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were key public places of entertainment for the upper classes and were vital to […]

November 25, 2024November 27, 2024Blog, Focus Week, Monthly Themed Blogs, Uncategorized

Dressed to De-Stress: Seaside Fashion at the Turn of the 20th Century

Victorian holiday goers show their seaside fashion.

As November brings #FocusWeek to the forefront of the Explore Your Archive campaign, Conwy Culture Centre gives us an insight into seaside fashions c.1900.

November 24, 2024November 22, 2024Blog, Focus Week, Monthly Themed Blogs, Uncategorized

Kew Gardens’ flagpoles – archival stories of a huge endeavour  

Black and white photograph showing numerous men standing on top of a log they have felled.

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have had many giants to consider for today’s theme of Huge. For example, the Great Pagoda, built […]

December 5, 2022June 6, 2023Archives In Focus, Blog, Featured Archives, Focus Week, Monthly Themed Blogs

Having a laugh with Swansea University Archives

The archives at Swansea University are full of exquisitely funny records.

November 29, 2022June 6, 2023Archives In Focus, Blog, Diversity Allies, Featured Archives, Focus Week, News

An Archival Record of Beards and their Meaning

For centuries the beard has sent out messages about status, profession and political affiliation.

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