Crowd Cymru

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Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· 7d

COME SAY HI! Interested in volunteering with Crowd Cymru but don’t know where to start? We’ll be at Cardigan Castle Fri 4 August 11am-2pm, with @archiveswales.bsky.social Join us for an interactive demo and find out how you can get involved in our award-winning digital archive project!

A 70s-style poster in bright orange with a wiggly rainbow streak flowing through the centre, and smiley flower faces. The text reads: Exhibition / Cardigan's long hot summer of '76 / Pavilion '76 / 1-31 August, Cardigan Castle

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· 7d

Our volunteers have started the work of transcribing items from the #Penrhyn Archive (Jamaica), from @archpbu.bsky.social They give an uncomfortable insight into daily life on sugar plantations in #Jamaica, and the lives of #African and Afro-Caribbean slaves who were working there.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· 21d

Ar gyfer #AEA:Pensaernïaeth dyma luniau o Lyfrgell y Celfyddydau ac Astudiaethau Cymdeithasol Prifysgol Caerdydd yn cael ei hadeiladu yn y 70au. Dyluniwyd yr adeilad gan Harry Faulkner-Brown yn arddull Friwtalaidd, ar gost o £1.1 miliwn (tua £12m heddi). Enillodd wobr am ddefnydd arloesol o goncrit

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· 21d

For #EYAArchitecture, we’re sharing some images of the building of Cardiff University’s ASSL (Arts and Social Sciences Library). Designed by Harry Faulkner-Brown in the Brutalist style, it cost a cool £1.1 million (around £12m today) and won an award for its innovative use of concrete!

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· 26d

Our volunteers have started work transcribing a collection of letters written by Welshman, John Griffith Jones, while he was with the 23rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army during the #AmericanCivilWar. Just look at that illustration! The collection is held at National Library Wales.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Jul 9

Image from Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives. Main building of Cardiff University from the glorious prospect of Alexandra Gardens. Taken circa 1980s and in spring by the look of that blossom! 🌸🌸🌸 #EYAArchitecture

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Jul 2

Who are you cheering for at #Wimbledon? 🎾🍓🎾 Check out this fabulous photograph of players Heather Brewer and Jennifer Middleton at the Welsh Lawn Tennis Championship in 1954. Image from the Newport Rugby and Athletic Club archive held at @gwentarchives.bsky.social 🎾🍓🎾

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Jun 29

Celebrating #NationalCameraDay with some favourite portraits from the Cardiff Docklands Community Collection, taken during the early 1900s. This collection, which is held at @glamarchives.bsky.social, was worked on a few years ago by our volunteers 📷📸📷📸📷

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Jun 22

🎨Wrth ein bodd â'r lliwiau retro ar y tudalennau hyn o lyfrau lloffion Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen @glamarchives Ry'n ni wedi swyno lawn cymaint gan y marciau'r tâp Sello a sut mae nhw wedi pylu gydag amser (er bo ni'n gwbod pa mor wael yw'r tâp Sello i gasgliadau!) #ArchiwiliwchEichArchif #Lliwgar

A poster flyer for a Theatre Cymru Welsh-language pantomime called 'Mwstwr yn y Clwstwr', shoing a robot in outerspace with a rocket behind it

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Jun 22

😍 Obsessed with the retro colours on these pages from Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen scrapbooks, from @glamarchives.bsky.social We're just as fascinated by the Sellotape marks, and how they've faded and changed over time (though we know how bad it is for collections!) #ExploreYourArchive #Colourful

Two tickets for a concert at Treorci Eglwys Martin Sant, Caerffili. One is a pale aqua, the other a salmon pink. They are stuck onto a blue-grey background with visible sellotape marks around them.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Jun 17

Crowd Cymru volunteers have helped describe items from the archive: ephemera, club night posters, and newsletters which include gossip sections, helplines, and advice on HIV and AIDS.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Jun 17

Established in 1986, GLAGG offered an alternative to the Cardiff gay scene. Their events attracted people from as far as the south Wales Valleys and Bristol. The GLAGG banner was carried at the Cardiff and London Prides of 1986 and 1987.

A hand-drawn banner with 'GAY PRIDE '87' written on it. Underneath are invites to the London Pride and Lesbian Strength marches of 1987.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Jun 17

Happy Pride! We know Pride is for life, not just for June but we can’t pass up the opportunity to share some 80s ephemera from the Gwent Lesbian and Gay Group (GLAGG) archive @gwentarchives.bsky.social

A poster for a club night at Lazers Stow Hill, Newport, with images from Some Like It Hot.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· May 27

Ni ar Instagram! dewch i ddweud helô @crowdcymru - byddem wrth ein bodd yn eich gweld chi yno! Ond peidiwch â phoeni, dydyn ni ddim yn gadael ein teulu Bluesky, dim ond ehangu allan 🥰

Screenshot of 3 sepia photographs of four adults and 2 children in Edwardian clothing. The text reads 'Gwirfoddoli Digidol ar gyfer Archifau Cymru. Digital Volunteering for Welsh Archives'.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· May 11

Mae ein gwirfoddolwyr newydd ddechrau trawsgrifio casgliad o Archifau Conwy - llythyron teuluol teimladwy'r brodyr Edgar a Norman Atkinson pan oedden nhw’n gwasanaethu yn y lluoedd arfog yn ystod y Rhyfel Mawr. Yma, mae Edgar yn ysgrifennu at ei Dad o Gogledd Affrica yn 1943 #WWI #RhyfelBydCyntaf

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· May 5

Our volunteers have just begun transcribing a collection from #ConwyArchives – poignant family letters written by brothers Edgar & Norman Atkinson whilst serving in the armed forces during #WorldWarOne #TranscriptionTuesday #family #WWI

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Apr 28

Cardiff University Vegetation survey 1970-89; group conducting a vegetation survey on a field course ☘️🌿🍃 Our volunteers are currently working on this collection of images that charts the history of the university 🍃🌿☘️

Black and white photograph showing Cardiff University Vegetation survey circa 1970-1989. Image shows a younger man on the left and older woman on the right, both kneeling down in vegetation with a measuring apparatus between them.
Cardiff University academic schools Biosciences and Physiology

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Apr 28

Cardiff University Vegetation survey 1970-89; recording plants on the River Wye 🍃☘️🌿Our volunteers are currently working on this collection of images that chart the history of the university 🌿☘️🍃 Collection held at Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives 🍃🌿☘️

Black and white photograph showing two students recording plants on the River Wye during the 1970s. Cardiff University Vegetation survey 1970-89.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Apr 16

1970s chic! Gaudy and gorgeous! Cardiff University students in a communal area; portable tele on the table with #DonaldDuck AND #RobertRedford on the wall! Our volunteers are currently working on this collection of images that chart the history of the university #ThrowbackThursday #studentlife

Black and white photograph of Cardiff University students in a communal area during the 1970s. A man in flared jeans sits in the foreground [you can only see his legs], two young women sit to the left on a sofa watching a portable television on the table. A third woman sits at the same table reading a magazine.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Apr 2

This early 1900s image of the Calvinistic Methodist Church in Cowbridge, South Wales, taken by Edwin Miles has a special meaning for one of our volunteers, Tony - “I have Great Grand Parents who were married in this Chapel in the 1880’s" ❤️ #DigitalArchives #VolunteeringProject #CrowdCymru

Black and white photograph of the Calvinistic Methodist Church in Cowbridge, South Wales, taken in the early 1900s. The large pale building is flanked on both sides by smaller cottages. A large expanse of grass is in the foreground. The following words have been written on the image in white: CAL METH: CHURCH, COWBRIDGE M.547.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Mar 30

When asked for a favourite item, our volunteer, Valerie, chose this holiday diary written by Georgiana Marcia Rolls on board the "Fair Flirt" from Scotland to Norway, Denmark overland through Germany, Holland & Belgium in 1850 ⛵⛵⛵ #WomensHistoryMonth

Photograph of top half of a double page of Georgiana Marcia Rolls’s handwritten Journal on board the "Fair Flirt" from Scotland to Norway, Denmark overland through Germany, Holland & Belgium in 1850.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Mar 17

Two little girls in their best dresses, dwarfed by the arboreous splendour of the #MargamEstate. Were they living in that big Gothic house or relatives of our photographer? Photograph taken in the early 1900s, from the #EdwinMiles Collection held at @glamarchives.bsky.social #WomensHistoryMonth

Black and white photograph showing wide flat formal steps leading up to Margam Castle in the background. At the foot of the steps, next to a giant fir tree stand two little girls in Edwardian dresses. The elder girl is also wearing a hat. The area is heavily forested.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Mar 16

“Mr Pennington was sent for, for the son of Mr Reid the Brewer. He found him in a Purple Fever quite insensible and the flesh coming off his ears and neck. The surgeon said he must not be touched... Orders were given to have his grave dug…” Mary Long’s Recipe Book [1828]🤢‼️😷‼️☠️ #WomensHistoryMonth

Detail from handwritten page of Mary Long’s Recipe Book [1828] describing the Doctor being called out for the brewer’s son who was suffering with Cholera

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Mar 12

Celebrating #BritishScienceWeek with this corker, a 1970s #CardiffUniversity psychology lecture – smocks, headbands, and cardies oh my! 🔬🔭🧪🧫 Join our #digitalarchives project here: gwentarchives.gov.uk/en/partnersh... #Science #ScienceInAction 🔬🔭

Black and white photograph of students in science class at Cardiff University. Group of students seated facing a male professor standing next to a young female student seated at a table upon which a large metal apparatus stands. Dated circa 1970s.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Mar 10

This week is #BritishScienceWeek! #Boho #Biba #student fine-tuning a #supercomputer! Glorious 1970s image from the #CardiffUniversity Institutional Archive – a visual collection charting the university’s history 💾🖨️📼 #womenshistorymonth gwentarchives.gov.uk/en/partnersh...

Black and white photograph of a young woman working on a large 1970s computer

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Mar 8

Happy #internationalwomensday to total legend, Georgiana Marcia Rolls! Our volunteers have loved transcribing her holiday diaries and wonderful spirit of adventure. We love you G! ❤️ Find out more about Georgiana’s life, legacy and fascinating family here: www.monlife.co.uk/heritage/ #IWD2026 ❤️ ‬

Image shows digital collage of images and handwritten documents relating to Georgiana Marcia Rolls. The photograph showing Marcia standing next to a hot air balloon has been used courtesy of MonLife Heritage.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Mar 1

#StDavidsDay arrangements in the @uwtsd.bsky.social Logbook for 1876 [St David's College, Lampeter] 💛 Our volunteers are currently transcribing these 1875-1886 Minutes 💛 #HappyStDavidsDay

Image shows detail of page from the St David's College, Lampeter, Minutes, Sept 1875-1886, comprising a handwritten account of day-to-day college life.
Entry for 7 February 1876, reports “It was agreed to hold the celebration of St David’s Day on Shrove Tuesday, Feb 29, in consequence of March 1 falling this year on Ash Wednesday, and to hold a Service in the College Chapel with a Sermon to be followed by a luncheon in the College Hall”.
This volume belongs to The Roderic Bowen Library & Archives, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and has been digitised by Cardiff University as part of the digital volunteering project, Crowd Cymru.
This page has been enhanced with a daffodil motif.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Feb 24

@tricksterprince.bsky.social I always think that the subject in this one looks so contemporary, it could have been taken yesterday! You can view the whole collection here: glamarchives.gov.uk/cardiffs-doc...

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Feb 23

Our volunteers loved working on this collection of portraits from Cardiff’s docklands community, taken between 1900-1920. The images are held at @glamarchives.bsky.social @archiveswales.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYAConnections

Collage of three sepia photographs from the Cardiff Docklands Collection.
The first shows a formal portrait of a couple [a White woman sitting, Black man standing] and a small Multiethnic boy. The second shows a young Black woman dressed smartly sitting posed in an artist’s studio - “From May to Etta with Love” is written in the top left of the photo. The third photo shows a White woman [in smart Edwardian clothing] standing alongside a very small Black boy standing on a chair, dressed in a smart velvet suit with white frilled collar and white knee-high socks.

Crowd Cymru@crowdcymru· Feb 17

Our volunteers discovered Blanche Baker-Gabb while transcribing an early #WomensInstitute Minutes Book from @gwentarchives.bsky.social, then we found her family archive at #NationalLibraryWales and finally, her signature on the #WelshWomensPeacePetition of 1923 ❤️#EYAConnections