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Today’s featured item listed in Daniel Huws’ s ‘A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800’:
“Piser Sioned”
The book belonged to Cadwaladr Davies, a schoolteacher "next to the Dwyryd", near Corwen.
Date: 1735-1745 BMSS/3212
“Piser Sioned”
The book belonged to Cadwaladr Davies, a schoolteacher "next to the Dwyryd", near Corwen.
Date: 1735-1745 BMSS/3212
January 28, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Today’s featured item listed in Daniel Huws’ s ‘A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800’:
“Piser Sioned”
The book belonged to Cadwaladr Davies, a schoolteacher "next to the Dwyryd", near Corwen.
Date: 1735-1745 BMSS/3212
“Piser Sioned”
The book belonged to Cadwaladr Davies, a schoolteacher "next to the Dwyryd", near Corwen.
Date: 1735-1745 BMSS/3212
Yr eitem dan sylw heddiw a restrir yng nghampwaith Daniel Huws, ‘A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800’:
“Piser Sioned”
Llyfr Cadwaladr Davies, athro ysgol "yn ymul y Ddwyryd", ger Corwen.
Dyddiad: 1735-1745 BMSS/3212
“Piser Sioned”
Llyfr Cadwaladr Davies, athro ysgol "yn ymul y Ddwyryd", ger Corwen.
Dyddiad: 1735-1745 BMSS/3212
January 28, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Yr eitem dan sylw heddiw a restrir yng nghampwaith Daniel Huws, ‘A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800’:
“Piser Sioned”
Llyfr Cadwaladr Davies, athro ysgol "yn ymul y Ddwyryd", ger Corwen.
Dyddiad: 1735-1745 BMSS/3212
“Piser Sioned”
Llyfr Cadwaladr Davies, athro ysgol "yn ymul y Ddwyryd", ger Corwen.
Dyddiad: 1735-1745 BMSS/3212
Subscription towards the Tre Madoc Embankment
Copi o'r penderfyniadau a basiwyd ym Mai 1812 o dan lywyddiaeth y Viscount Bulkeley o Fôn ar y modd gorau i roi cymorth i W.A. Maddocks pan wnaethpwyd difrod i'r y Cob gan stormydd. Amrwy enwau, y bardd Shelley yn eu plith.
Dyddiad: 1812 BMSS/2382
Copi o'r penderfyniadau a basiwyd ym Mai 1812 o dan lywyddiaeth y Viscount Bulkeley o Fôn ar y modd gorau i roi cymorth i W.A. Maddocks pan wnaethpwyd difrod i'r y Cob gan stormydd. Amrwy enwau, y bardd Shelley yn eu plith.
Dyddiad: 1812 BMSS/2382
January 27, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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Copi o'r penderfyniadau a basiwyd ym Mai 1812 o dan lywyddiaeth y Viscount Bulkeley o Fôn ar y modd gorau i roi cymorth i W.A. Maddocks pan wnaethpwyd difrod i'r y Cob gan stormydd. Amrwy enwau, y bardd Shelley yn eu plith.
Dyddiad: 1812 BMSS/2382
Copi o'r penderfyniadau a basiwyd ym Mai 1812 o dan lywyddiaeth y Viscount Bulkeley o Fôn ar y modd gorau i roi cymorth i W.A. Maddocks pan wnaethpwyd difrod i'r y Cob gan stormydd. Amrwy enwau, y bardd Shelley yn eu plith.
Dyddiad: 1812 BMSS/2382
Subscription towards the Tre Madoc Embankment
Resolutions passed in 1812 under the presidency of Viscount Bulkeley of Anglesey on the best way to help W.A. Maddocks when damage was done to the Cob by the sea tide during a storm. The poet Shelley’s name is among the subscribers
Date:1812 BMSS/2382
Resolutions passed in 1812 under the presidency of Viscount Bulkeley of Anglesey on the best way to help W.A. Maddocks when damage was done to the Cob by the sea tide during a storm. The poet Shelley’s name is among the subscribers
Date:1812 BMSS/2382
January 27, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Subscription towards the Tre Madoc Embankment
Resolutions passed in 1812 under the presidency of Viscount Bulkeley of Anglesey on the best way to help W.A. Maddocks when damage was done to the Cob by the sea tide during a storm. The poet Shelley’s name is among the subscribers
Date:1812 BMSS/2382
Resolutions passed in 1812 under the presidency of Viscount Bulkeley of Anglesey on the best way to help W.A. Maddocks when damage was done to the Cob by the sea tide during a storm. The poet Shelley’s name is among the subscribers
Date:1812 BMSS/2382
Peter Comestor's 'Historia Scholastica'.
A copy on velum completed in 1469, written in brown ink, rubricated, and decorated with fine red elongated pen flourishes. Rebound in the 19th century in full brown goatskin.
Formerly preserved in the Bangor Cathedral Library.
Date: 1469 BMSS/15233
A copy on velum completed in 1469, written in brown ink, rubricated, and decorated with fine red elongated pen flourishes. Rebound in the 19th century in full brown goatskin.
Formerly preserved in the Bangor Cathedral Library.
Date: 1469 BMSS/15233
January 26, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Peter Comestor's 'Historia Scholastica'.
A copy on velum completed in 1469, written in brown ink, rubricated, and decorated with fine red elongated pen flourishes. Rebound in the 19th century in full brown goatskin.
Formerly preserved in the Bangor Cathedral Library.
Date: 1469 BMSS/15233
A copy on velum completed in 1469, written in brown ink, rubricated, and decorated with fine red elongated pen flourishes. Rebound in the 19th century in full brown goatskin.
Formerly preserved in the Bangor Cathedral Library.
Date: 1469 BMSS/15233
'Historia Scholastica' gan Peter Comestor.
Felwm; wedi'i ysgrifennu mewn inc brown, wedi'i rwbio, a'i addurno â phen hir coch mân yn ffynnu. Wedi'i ailrwymo mewn lledr brown croen gafr yn y 19eg ganrif.
Cadwyd gynt yn Llyfrgell Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor.
Dyddiad: 1469 BMSS/15233
Felwm; wedi'i ysgrifennu mewn inc brown, wedi'i rwbio, a'i addurno â phen hir coch mân yn ffynnu. Wedi'i ailrwymo mewn lledr brown croen gafr yn y 19eg ganrif.
Cadwyd gynt yn Llyfrgell Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor.
Dyddiad: 1469 BMSS/15233
January 26, 2026 at 9:53 AM
'Historia Scholastica' gan Peter Comestor.
Felwm; wedi'i ysgrifennu mewn inc brown, wedi'i rwbio, a'i addurno â phen hir coch mân yn ffynnu. Wedi'i ailrwymo mewn lledr brown croen gafr yn y 19eg ganrif.
Cadwyd gynt yn Llyfrgell Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor.
Dyddiad: 1469 BMSS/15233
Felwm; wedi'i ysgrifennu mewn inc brown, wedi'i rwbio, a'i addurno â phen hir coch mân yn ffynnu. Wedi'i ailrwymo mewn lledr brown croen gafr yn y 19eg ganrif.
Cadwyd gynt yn Llyfrgell Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor.
Dyddiad: 1469 BMSS/15233
An opportunity to listen to a talk by the wonderful Dr Marian Gwyn
Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations
6pm, 10/2/2026 Lecture Room 3, Main Arts Building Bangor University, or join online
For more information:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...
Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations
6pm, 10/2/2026 Lecture Room 3, Main Arts Building Bangor University, or join online
For more information:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...
January 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
An opportunity to listen to a talk by the wonderful Dr Marian Gwyn
Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations
6pm, 10/2/2026 Lecture Room 3, Main Arts Building Bangor University, or join online
For more information:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...
Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations
6pm, 10/2/2026 Lecture Room 3, Main Arts Building Bangor University, or join online
For more information:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...
Cyfle i wrando ar sgwrs gan yr hynod ddiddorol Dr Marian Gwyn.
Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations
6pm 10/2/2026 Darlithfa 3, Prif Adeilad Y Celfyddydau neu ymunwch ar-lein
Am fwy o wybodaeth:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...
Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations
6pm 10/2/2026 Darlithfa 3, Prif Adeilad Y Celfyddydau neu ymunwch ar-lein
Am fwy o wybodaeth:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...
January 23, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Cyfle i wrando ar sgwrs gan yr hynod ddiddorol Dr Marian Gwyn.
Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations
6pm 10/2/2026 Darlithfa 3, Prif Adeilad Y Celfyddydau neu ymunwch ar-lein
Am fwy o wybodaeth:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...
Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations
6pm 10/2/2026 Darlithfa 3, Prif Adeilad Y Celfyddydau neu ymunwch ar-lein
Am fwy o wybodaeth:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...
Dyma fap yn dangos cwrs yr Afon Adda trwy Fangor. Ychydig iawn o'r Adda sydd i'w weld heddiw gan ei fod wedi'i gwlfertu ac yn rhedeg o dan y ddinas.
“Map of the Penrhyn estate in the Bangor Board of Health District.”
PENRA/2219 1856
“Map of the Penrhyn estate in the Bangor Board of Health District.”
PENRA/2219 1856
January 23, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Dyma fap yn dangos cwrs yr Afon Adda trwy Fangor. Ychydig iawn o'r Adda sydd i'w weld heddiw gan ei fod wedi'i gwlfertu ac yn rhedeg o dan y ddinas.
“Map of the Penrhyn estate in the Bangor Board of Health District.”
PENRA/2219 1856
“Map of the Penrhyn estate in the Bangor Board of Health District.”
PENRA/2219 1856
Here we have a map showing the course of the Afon (River) Adda through Bangor. Very little of the Adda is visible today as it has been culverted and runs beneath the city.
“Map of the Penrhyn estate in the Bangor Board of Health District.”
PENRA/2219 1856
“Map of the Penrhyn estate in the Bangor Board of Health District.”
PENRA/2219 1856
January 23, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Here we have a map showing the course of the Afon (River) Adda through Bangor. Very little of the Adda is visible today as it has been culverted and runs beneath the city.
“Map of the Penrhyn estate in the Bangor Board of Health District.”
PENRA/2219 1856
“Map of the Penrhyn estate in the Bangor Board of Health District.”
PENRA/2219 1856
Yr eitem dan sylw heddiw a restrir yng nghampwaith Daniel Huws
Llyfr Ffortun
Prif destun y llyfr yw astroleg, cylchred y lleuad a'r tywydd.
Today’s featured item listed in Daniel Huws Magnus Opus
Fortune Book
The main text focusses on astrology, the lunar cycle and the weather
1685-1688 BMSS/4
Llyfr Ffortun
Prif destun y llyfr yw astroleg, cylchred y lleuad a'r tywydd.
Today’s featured item listed in Daniel Huws Magnus Opus
Fortune Book
The main text focusses on astrology, the lunar cycle and the weather
1685-1688 BMSS/4
January 21, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Yr eitem dan sylw heddiw a restrir yng nghampwaith Daniel Huws
Llyfr Ffortun
Prif destun y llyfr yw astroleg, cylchred y lleuad a'r tywydd.
Today’s featured item listed in Daniel Huws Magnus Opus
Fortune Book
The main text focusses on astrology, the lunar cycle and the weather
1685-1688 BMSS/4
Llyfr Ffortun
Prif destun y llyfr yw astroleg, cylchred y lleuad a'r tywydd.
Today’s featured item listed in Daniel Huws Magnus Opus
Fortune Book
The main text focusses on astrology, the lunar cycle and the weather
1685-1688 BMSS/4
Fory - Tomorrow Mercher/Wednesday 21/1/26
Darlithoedd Shankland 2025-26 Dathlu Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor 1500
A Tale of Twin Cities: Why is Bangor twinned with Soest?
Dr Marc Collinson, Prifysgol Bangor University
AGORED I BAWB.
Lleoliad/Location:
STORIEL BANGOR
1pm-2pm
Darlithoedd Shankland 2025-26 Dathlu Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor 1500
A Tale of Twin Cities: Why is Bangor twinned with Soest?
Dr Marc Collinson, Prifysgol Bangor University
AGORED I BAWB.
Lleoliad/Location:
STORIEL BANGOR
1pm-2pm
January 20, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Fory - Tomorrow Mercher/Wednesday 21/1/26
Darlithoedd Shankland 2025-26 Dathlu Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor 1500
A Tale of Twin Cities: Why is Bangor twinned with Soest?
Dr Marc Collinson, Prifysgol Bangor University
AGORED I BAWB.
Lleoliad/Location:
STORIEL BANGOR
1pm-2pm
Darlithoedd Shankland 2025-26 Dathlu Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor 1500
A Tale of Twin Cities: Why is Bangor twinned with Soest?
Dr Marc Collinson, Prifysgol Bangor University
AGORED I BAWB.
Lleoliad/Location:
STORIEL BANGOR
1pm-2pm
“Plan of the new allotments on Malldraeth and Corsddaugau Marsh”
BMSS/118 Dyddiad/Date: 1790
BMSS/118 Dyddiad/Date: 1790
January 20, 2026 at 10:54 AM
“Plan of the new allotments on Malldraeth and Corsddaugau Marsh”
BMSS/118 Dyddiad/Date: 1790
BMSS/118 Dyddiad/Date: 1790
Letters patent, being an Exemplification of an Act for exemplifying the will of Nicholas Bagenall Esq. and for making the same evidence in all courts of law and equity
Dyddiad/Date: 1734 PLAS NEWYDD/VI/503
Dyddiad/Date: 1734 PLAS NEWYDD/VI/503
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Letters patent, being an Exemplification of an Act for exemplifying the will of Nicholas Bagenall Esq. and for making the same evidence in all courts of law and equity
Dyddiad/Date: 1734 PLAS NEWYDD/VI/503
Dyddiad/Date: 1734 PLAS NEWYDD/VI/503
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Looking forward to delivering the next #ShanklandLecture on Wednesday 21 January at @storielbangor.bsky.social on Bangor's twinning with Soest, NordRhine-Westfalen @archpbu.bsky.social @bangorhistory.bsky.social #BangorPolitics
January 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Looking forward to delivering the next #ShanklandLecture on Wednesday 21 January at @storielbangor.bsky.social on Bangor's twinning with Soest, NordRhine-Westfalen @archpbu.bsky.social @bangorhistory.bsky.social #BangorPolitics
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This book (1886) not only features a drawing of a dragon on its cover, but is also embossed with stylised dragon scales!
The author, Charles Gould, built on Darwin's theory of evolution & proposed that mythical monsters may not be imaginary after all...
📷 Reserve 398.469 GOU
#AppreciateADragonDay
The author, Charles Gould, built on Darwin's theory of evolution & proposed that mythical monsters may not be imaginary after all...
📷 Reserve 398.469 GOU
#AppreciateADragonDay
January 16, 2026 at 10:26 AM
This book (1886) not only features a drawing of a dragon on its cover, but is also embossed with stylised dragon scales!
The author, Charles Gould, built on Darwin's theory of evolution & proposed that mythical monsters may not be imaginary after all...
📷 Reserve 398.469 GOU
#AppreciateADragonDay
The author, Charles Gould, built on Darwin's theory of evolution & proposed that mythical monsters may not be imaginary after all...
📷 Reserve 398.469 GOU
#AppreciateADragonDay
Llyfr nodiadau bach hyfryd yn llawn lluniau pensil gan Joseph Bird o adeiladau a nodweddion o gwmpas Bangor, Llandegai a Bethesda.
A delightful little notebook full of pencil drawings by Joseph Bird of buildings and features around Bangor, Llandegai and Bethesda.
PFA/6/97 1910
A delightful little notebook full of pencil drawings by Joseph Bird of buildings and features around Bangor, Llandegai and Bethesda.
PFA/6/97 1910
January 16, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Llyfr nodiadau bach hyfryd yn llawn lluniau pensil gan Joseph Bird o adeiladau a nodweddion o gwmpas Bangor, Llandegai a Bethesda.
A delightful little notebook full of pencil drawings by Joseph Bird of buildings and features around Bangor, Llandegai and Bethesda.
PFA/6/97 1910
A delightful little notebook full of pencil drawings by Joseph Bird of buildings and features around Bangor, Llandegai and Bethesda.
PFA/6/97 1910
Claire our intern, whilst busily cataloguing the Rachel Browmich collection, has an update on those pesky Amstrad LocoScript disks.
January 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Claire our intern, whilst busily cataloguing the Rachel Browmich collection, has an update on those pesky Amstrad LocoScript disks.
Poster yn rhybuddio melinwyr a delwyr rhag chwyddo pris ŷd yn fwriadol
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Poster warning against millers and dealers ‘Regrating, Engrossing and Forestalling’ the price of corn.
Dyddiad/Date: 1800 Heb ei gatalogio / Uncatalogued
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Poster warning against millers and dealers ‘Regrating, Engrossing and Forestalling’ the price of corn.
Dyddiad/Date: 1800 Heb ei gatalogio / Uncatalogued
January 15, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Poster yn rhybuddio melinwyr a delwyr rhag chwyddo pris ŷd yn fwriadol
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Poster warning against millers and dealers ‘Regrating, Engrossing and Forestalling’ the price of corn.
Dyddiad/Date: 1800 Heb ei gatalogio / Uncatalogued
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Poster warning against millers and dealers ‘Regrating, Engrossing and Forestalling’ the price of corn.
Dyddiad/Date: 1800 Heb ei gatalogio / Uncatalogued
Today’s featured item listed in Daniel Huws’ s ‘A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800’:
The Book of Huw Huws, the Red Poet of Ynys Môn
calmview.bangor.ac.uk/CalmView/Rec...
Date: n.d. ASHBY(TY Calch)/49
The Book of Huw Huws, the Red Poet of Ynys Môn
calmview.bangor.ac.uk/CalmView/Rec...
Date: n.d. ASHBY(TY Calch)/49
January 14, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Today’s featured item listed in Daniel Huws’ s ‘A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800’:
The Book of Huw Huws, the Red Poet of Ynys Môn
calmview.bangor.ac.uk/CalmView/Rec...
Date: n.d. ASHBY(TY Calch)/49
The Book of Huw Huws, the Red Poet of Ynys Môn
calmview.bangor.ac.uk/CalmView/Rec...
Date: n.d. ASHBY(TY Calch)/49
Yr eitem dan sylw heddiw a restrir yng nghampwaith Daniel Huws, ‘A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800’:
Llyfr Huw Huws, y Bardd Coch o Fôn
calmview.bangor.ac.uk/CalmView/Rec...
Dyddiad: d.d. ASHBY(TY Calch)/49
Llyfr Huw Huws, y Bardd Coch o Fôn
calmview.bangor.ac.uk/CalmView/Rec...
Dyddiad: d.d. ASHBY(TY Calch)/49
January 14, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Yr eitem dan sylw heddiw a restrir yng nghampwaith Daniel Huws, ‘A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800’:
Llyfr Huw Huws, y Bardd Coch o Fôn
calmview.bangor.ac.uk/CalmView/Rec...
Dyddiad: d.d. ASHBY(TY Calch)/49
Llyfr Huw Huws, y Bardd Coch o Fôn
calmview.bangor.ac.uk/CalmView/Rec...
Dyddiad: d.d. ASHBY(TY Calch)/49
January 13, 2026 at 10:18 AM
January 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Grant in fee simple of the capital messuage and lands in Kynmell and Wickwer in the tenure of the said Peter Holland in right of his wife Catherine, messuages and lands in Abergeley and Kegydocke
Dyddiad/Date: 1574/5 KINMEL/686
Dyddiad/Date: 1574/5 KINMEL/686
January 12, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Grant in fee simple of the capital messuage and lands in Kynmell and Wickwer in the tenure of the said Peter Holland in right of his wife Catherine, messuages and lands in Abergeley and Kegydocke
Dyddiad/Date: 1574/5 KINMEL/686
Dyddiad/Date: 1574/5 KINMEL/686
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Very exciting preliminary findings at today's half-way meeting for @projectfishistory.bsky.social @sosbangor.bsky.social
Thanks to the team for great contributions! @georginahunt.bsky.social @emilyphilly.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social
Thanks to the team for great contributions! @georginahunt.bsky.social @emilyphilly.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Very exciting preliminary findings at today's half-way meeting for @projectfishistory.bsky.social @sosbangor.bsky.social
Thanks to the team for great contributions! @georginahunt.bsky.social @emilyphilly.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social
Thanks to the team for great contributions! @georginahunt.bsky.social @emilyphilly.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social