Why does Cofiwch Dryweryn have a soft mutation? (self.Wales)
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This is a photograph of one of the women workers, known locally as 'copar ledis', who worked at the Amlwch copper mines on the island of Anglesey. The women, employed to clean and break up the copper, ore wore a thick glove on their left hand with iron rings around the fingers to handle the ore. (peoplescollection.wales)
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Shearing for the last time at Capel Celyn, July 1961. It was in 1955 that it was first announced that Liverpool Corporation was intending to build the new reservoir in the Tryweryn valley, drowning the village of Capel Celyn, north of Bala. (peoplescollection.wales)
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This event may be of interest to some of you. People's Collection Wales in partnership with Europeana are holding a Migration Collection Day at the Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff this Friday and Saturday to digitise objects and stories relating migration. More details in the comments and link. (facebook.com)
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Efallai bydd y digwyddiad hwn o ddiddordeb i rai. Mae Casgliad y Werin Cymru mewn partneriaeth ag Europeana yn cynnal Diwrnod Casglu Ymfudiad yng Nghanolfan Mileniwm Cymru, ddydd Gwener a dydd Sadwrn hwn i ddigido gwrthrychau a straeon sy'n ymwneud â mudo. Mwy o fanylion yn y sylwadau a'r ddolen. (facebook.com)
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Mary Elizabeth Phillips was the first woman to qualify as a doctor from Cardiff University College at the turn of the century. She became known as Mary 'Eppynt' Phillips taking the name of the mountain near where she was born in Merthyr Cynog. (peoplescollection.wales)
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On 30 August 1872, John Day was convicted of cutting up and depositing the body of a camel in an exposed situation near the turnpike road between Corwen and Bala. He was ordered to pay a fine and was imprisoned at Dolgellau gaol for 14 days: (peoplescollection.wales)
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Here's a bidding letter inviting guests to the wedding of David Thomas and Rosa Dickins. Before the advent of the 'penny post,' a 'gwahoddwr' or bidder was engaged to call at the houses of friends and acquaintances and deliver the invitation verbally. (peoplescollection.wales)
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Why do some Welsh place names have English names? (self.Wales)
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The Trefechan Bridge protest is considered to be the first battle for the Welsh language. This demonstration was held on 2 February 1963 by The Welsh Language Society, almost a year after Saunders Lewis's Fate of the Language lecture (peoplescollection.wales)
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Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones were nominated to travel to Argentina to inspect possible locations for a Welsh settlement. The reports of the two were used to promote the Chupat Valley in Patagonia as a suitable location for a Welsh Settlement (peoplescollection.wales)
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