Open Doors at Glamorgan Archives Join us on Saturday 12 September for our annual Open Doors event Tours behind the scenes will be running at 10am, 11.30am, 12.30pm and 2pm. Contact us to book your FREE place.
Sue Hamer
@suehamer.bsky.social
Family historian, past Chairman, Glamorgan Family History Society, dysgu Cymraeg, very amateur painter and potter
This week’s events: 7th October: Swansea branch AGM (Civic Centre, 1.45pm), followed by a talk at 2pm: Jeff Phillips - history of transport in Swansea 7th October: Cardiff branch AGM (online, 7pm), followed by a talk at 7.30pm: Dr Diane Brook - J Barry Davies, Glamorgan Genealogist
We’ll be at Kempton Park this Saturday (4th October) for The Family History Show. Visit our stand to find out more about the society, ask our volunteers for help with your research, or just stop by to say hello! thefamilyhistoryshow.com/london/ #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Glamorgan
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It was great to welcome back members of the Cardiff and Vale Branch of Glamorgan Family History Society to the Archives today. This month we looked at records relating to shops and shopping.
#OnThisDay in 1935 the heroic Welsh journalist Gareth Jones was murdered just a day before his 30th birthday. He exposed the atrocities of the Holodomor famine in the #Ukraine. How we could do with journalists like him today! A piece I wrote a while back: nation.cymru/culture/hitl...
Hitler, Stalin, and Mr Jones - the story of a true Welsh hero
Christopher Evans There are many unsung heroes throughout Welsh history. People who have fought for human rights, struggled against oppression and repression, challenged those in power, and championed...
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Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.
Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · last yr.Bye forever, WeTransfer.
The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. #SummerSolstice British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
Found a fake record on Ancestry (AI strikes again?). It's based on an 1855 Scottish death register entry, but the "deceased" is actually one of the listed living children, and there seems to be a 'death record' for everyone mentioned on the original 😡 #genealogy #ScottishGenealogy #GenHour
Absolutely brilliant news. It was so important that the govt organised British re-entry to Horizon: UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout
Exclusive: British scientists ‘over the moon’ with re-entry to funding scheme after losing out for three years
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"This feature has become very popular among people who have no imagination" is perhaps one of the best and most damning things you can say about people who use gen-AI to regurgitate artbarf as if it's anything other than digital particleboard.
Alli Shaw@allidrawscomics.bsky.social · last yr.More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do
People pushing unwanted tech like AI on the public today really conveniently forget about and gloss over the times in history when forced tech pushes failed miserably
In withering fairness to many of our modern ill-fitting technology pushers, they have an absolutely garbage knowledge of history, as it wasn't a subject they ever put any effort into, so there was nothing to forget, and no lessons learned to avoid. It's why crypto sped run scams from the 1800s.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · last yr.People pushing unwanted tech like AI on the public today really conveniently forget about and gloss over the times in history when forced tech pushes failed miserably
Join us at the ARC in Bridgend on Saturday 5th April to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Short talks: History and Future of the Society, Glamorgan Archives Coal Mining Exhibition, Life in the Garw Valley. There will also be 50th anniversary cake! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Glamorgan #Bridgend
Thank you, dioch, to those members that attended this afternoon's AGM. Apologies that we had to postpone the talk due to the last minute unavailability of our speaker. #GlamorganFHS
We have been advising our volunteers about thus increase in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family Plans with no.optipn to opt out of AI Copilot add in together with additional monthly charges if you use Copilot more than a certain amount!
John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2y agoHappy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.
Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.
Continuing our recent time in #Wales: we're off to #Cardiff on Saturday 15 Feb, to talk to the Welsh Railways Research Circle: 'Asking for trouble’? The Railway Work, Life & Death project & railway employee accidents in Wales before 1939. All welcome: https://buff.ly/4ha283C
And so the last site for this series of #diggingforbritain - our Rat Island. It’s a constant effort site as the remains of these poor people keep eroding. This man had an altogether darker tale we are still investigating #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology
Fascinating meeting at #GlamorganArchives yesterday, examples of Barry and Cardiff records #GlamorganFHS including 1622 Evans Mouse survey of Barry Manor which included cottage eventually tenanted by my 7x gt grandmother the notorious witch Anne Richmond Jenkins.
Common sense has prevailed for once. Phew!
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland@araukie.bsky.social · 2y agoThanks to the 1,600 people and organisations who responded to the UK Ministry of Justice’s proposals on the retention of wills. Good news: The UK Government has determined not to proceed with any reforms that involve the destruction of original wills Read in full here: www.gov.uk/government/c...
The new series of #diggingforbritain starts tomorrow! So sharpen your pencils, get your needles threaded, charge your batteries and join us for #drawingdiggingforbritain let’s see what inspires you from the year’s #archaeology. @raretelevision.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
My offering for episode 1. The moment of discovery. The first light on a face for over a thousand years. Gives me goosebumps #drawingdiggingforbritain @richardosgood.bsky.social
Richard Osgood@richardosgood.bsky.social · 2y agoA new series of #diggingforbritain next week (7th Jan) - so why not join us in some watch along art? Painting, textile, sculpture, digital art, doodles whatever! Simply watch the show, post your creative output & tag it #drawingdiggingforbritain should be lots of fun #archaeology #art #wellbeing 🏺
The 1921 England & Wales Census will be available on Ancestry during the first half of 2025.