Yn ogystal â dod ynghyd heno i wrando ar bapur gwych Harriett, rydym wedi ‎ymgasglu (heb yn wybod i William) i ddathlu gyrfa ddisglair William Marx a ‎chyfrol hyfryd sydd wedi’i chyhoeddi gan Brepols er clod i William. Felly heb …

Teyrnged i Waith Dr William Marx gan yr Athro Jane Cartwright Read more »

As well as coming along this evening to listen to Harriett’s superb paper, we’ve ‎also got together (unbeknown to William) to celebrate William Marx’s ‎illustrious career and a really lovely volume that has been published by Brepols ‎in honour of …

A Tribute to the Work of Dr William Marx by Professor Jane Cartwright Read more »

Today’s blog continues our series on Lampeter alumni who served in WWI, by Amy Kirby, who is studying for her BA in Heritage with Museums and Archives at UWTSD Lampeter. Amy is volunteering at the Rodierc Bowen Libray and Archives and she …

Lampeter Alumni in the First World War: John Charles Edmund-Davies Read more »

Look here, the border between the black and red is really telling

Each year, UWTSD Lampeter borrows some objects from the collection at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum in Merthyr Tydfil. This gives our students in Archaeology, Heritage, and Archaeology of Egypt and the Near East a chance to experience handling and cataloguing ancient …

New Objects Arriving at UWTSD from Cyfarthfa Castle Musem Read more »

Today’s blog post is by Sarah Roberts, a Special Collections Curator at the Roderic Bowen Library and Archives, which houses the Special Collections of UWTSD, the university’s oldest printed books, manuscripts and archives and is one of the principal resources …

RBLA Exhbition: Hobbes’ Leviathan Read more »

The 1828 charter, with a portrait of George III, but a reference to George IV.

The university that came to be (after a few name changes) the University of Wales Trinity St David, was founded in 1822. At that point it was St David’s College. The college admitted its first students on St David’s Day …

1822 and All That: The Beginnings of UWTSD Read more »

St. David’s College Students, Ex-service Men, 1918-19

This blog was written by Flora McNerney, a UWTSD third-year student in Anthropology and English, who was a member of the team that worked on the material for the exhibition. Flora was the Lampeter Campus Students’ Union President in 2014/15. …

The Somme Centenary at UWTSD Read more »

Bowdler's Shapespeare: The Taming of the Shrew

On April 23, we commemorated the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. At UWTSD Lampeter, the Roderic Bowen Research Centre houses a fine collection of early printed works by and about the bard, including illustrated editions, critical studies, …

Censoring Shakespeare’s Naughty Bits Read more »

Two women holding out babies for rides on the back of a bear, from the right border of a page of the Lampeter Bible (1279), one of the manuscripts in the RBLA.

Are you interested in the rare books and manuscripts held in the Lampeter campus archive? Art Historian Dr Allan Barton is currently researching the Roderic Bowen Archive in Lampeter and sharing his findings online. From Oxford Binding, marbled “pastedowns” to …

The Art of Book-Binding explored by Art Historian Dr Allan Barton Read more »