Agenda and minutes
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Disclosures of Personal and Prejudicial Interests. Minutes: In accordance with the Code of Conduct adopted by both authorities, no interests were declared. |
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To approve & sign the Minutes of the previous meeting(s) as a correct record. Minutes: Resolved that the Minutes of the West Glamorgan Archives Committee held on 21 September 2018 were approved as a correct record. |
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Report of the County Archivist. PDF 111 KB Minutes: The County Archivist presented a report which outlined the
work of the Joint Archive Service during the period September-November 2018. Use of the Service He reported on the use of the service for the quarter. He referred
to the comparison of statistics for 2017 and 2018 and detailed the background
and rationale behind them. Service Outreach He detailed the Service’s involvement in the development of
an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of women’s voting rights. The 15-panel exhibition had been developed in
partnership with Swansea Museum, the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea University
and the Women’s Archive Wales. The exhibition has been developed in two
sections, with one aimed at the general public and one at 11-16 year olds, and
has already been displayed at Swansea Civic Centre foyer, Swansea Museum,
Swansea YMCA, the Women’s Archive Wales annual conference, Taliesin Create,
Swansea University, Volcano Theatre and Margam Orangery. He indicated it would also be displayed at Terrace Road
Primary School later that day to accompany the unveiling of a blue plaque at
the school commemorating Clara Neal, a former head teacher at the school,
prominent suffragist and women’s rights campaigner. He referred to the proposals for the development of an
exhibition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Swansea’s City
Status that is planned for 2019. The
Archives would work in partnership with a number of cultural venues and other
organisations on this. He described the recent launch, and circulated a copy for
information, of ‘The Parish of Llangyfelach: Landed Estates, Farms and
Families’ by Jeff Childs, which the Service had jointly published with the
author. He indicated that the Service would be publishing another book, on the
rebuilding of Swansea 1941-1961, in the summer of 2019. He outlined the sessions delivered for various schools and
talks to groups undertaken. He also listed the various events attended by the Service
and recent participation in the UK-wide ‘Explore your Archive’ campaign. He explained about an online resource that the Service had
created based on the Service’s holdings of First World War rolls of honour and
made public on November 11th with an index of local servicemen who
fought and died in the War. He outlined that following a grant from the Friends of the
National Libraries in 2017, the Service had digitised and web mounted a series
of the Neath Abbey Ironworks drawings. He referred to a recent South Wales Evening Post article
which highlighted and publicised some of the documents and collections held by
the Service. Professional Meetings and Partnership Working He reported on the various meetings attended by staff during
the quarter. Archive Collections He reported on the list of archives received by the Service
during the quarter. |