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Above & below:
Paintings of Joe Calzaghe and Ryan Giggs
BUILDING THE
COLLECTION
The Library has received some exciting items and collections of pictures and photographs recently. We have a particular
interest in portraits and landscape works when collecting in this area.
A self-portrait, charcoal on paper, by Augustus John, 1941.
A large framed, oil on board portrait of Aneurin Bevan
(1897–1960), by a member of the English School.
A framed oil on canvas portrait of Joe Calzaghe, by David
Griffiths, 2008.
A framed oil on canvas portrait of Ryan Giggs by Peter
Edwards.
Around two hundred photographs in three albums, and
two portraits relating to the Vaughan family of Nannau.
A small album containing photographs of Lloyd George,
Howard de Walden, A. J. Sylvester and others, and
members of Richard Hall Williams’s family, taken during
the Wrexham National Eisteddfod, 1933.
An oil on canvas painting entitled ‘Rock Pool, below Elin's
Tŵr, Anglesey’ by Peter Prendergast, 2004–05.
Papers of The Right Honourable Peter Hain, MP, mainly
1970–2004, including material relating to his prominent
role as a campaigner against apartheid in South Africa;
papers deriving from the activities of the Young Liberals in
the 1970s; papers concerning electoral reform, the trade
unions, election campaigns, and the evolution of the
Labour Party in the 1980s and 1990s including many of
his keynote speeches; and a large group of press cuttings
and research papers (Peter Hain Papers).
A substantial collection of the papers of W. R. P. George
(1912–2006), former Archdruid of Wales, including diaries,
correspondence, literary works, articles, addresses, press
cuttings; Gwynedd County Council papers; and family
papers (W. R. P. George Papers). This is a very valuable
addition to the extensive collection of papers of the
George family, including his father William George and his
uncle David Lloyd George.
A substantial collection of materials relating to the Wales
Caricature Theatre, including correspondence,
programmes for television, posters, advertising material,
scripts and films (Caricature Theatre Papers). This is an
important addition to the Library’s extensive collection of
Welsh theatre archives.
A watercolour with pencil and gouache drawing entitled
‘Pistyll Rhaeadr, N. Wales’ by Paul Sandby.
A collection of around eight hundred early glass negatives
of photographs depicting images in South Wales taken by
Martin Ridley (1861–1936).
Over six hundred original art works were donated, being
works on paper, in frames, and the majority in mounts,
collected by Maurice Sheppard PPRWS, together with a
catalogue by him of the whole collection (Maurice
Sheppard PPRWS Collection).
About two hundred colour photographs including Ffilmiau
Eryri productions; the cast and crew of the short film
‘Traed mewn Cyffion’; the cast of ‘Tydi Bywyd yn Boen’,
‘Cyfle Olaf’, ‘Jabas’, ‘Gwely a Brecwast’, and ‘Minafon’,
and a few photographs of Cynan (added to the Cwmni Da
collection).
A coloured map, mounted: ‘Campion's map of collieries,
iron, tin, copper, chemical works, railways & stations in
South Wales’.
A very wide range of manuscripts and archives were received during the year including medieval manuscripts and
archives of literary, musical and political figures as well as important voluntary bodies. In collecting unpublished
materials we concentrate on individuals and institutions of national significance.
A third consignment of papers relating to Dylan Thomas collected by Jeff Towns, including Dylan’s letters to Charles
Fisher (published), Caitlin’s letters, and some from his parents, Mr and Mrs Thomas, and his children, Aeronwy, Llewelyn
and Colm Thomas (added to Jeff Towns Collection: Dylan Thomas papers). Jeff Towns’s collection is a significant
addition to the wealth of Dylan Thomas papers already held by the Library.
A large collection of records relating to the Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement, including correspondence, press cuttings,
advertising material, diaries, printed matter, and various other papers (Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement Papers). It
includes a substantial collection of the Movement’s rare publications most of which were published in South Africa. It
also complements perfectly part of the next acquisition described below.
An additional collection of the music manuscripts of the
late Alun Hoddinott, one of Wales’s foremost
twentieth-century composers, and also letters and other
papers to be added to the collection already held by the
Library (added to The Alun Hoddinott Archive).
A decorated manuscript on vellum, being ‘Expositio in
parabolis Salomonis’ by Thomas of Ringstead (fl.
1346-66), a Latin translation of his ‘Commentary on
Proverbs’ (NLW MS 23986).
A manuscript entitled ‘Memoranda and Sketches,
Moelwyn Mawr’ by Thomas Sopwith, 1865 (NLW MS
23982).