| LADY LLANOVER & HER LEGACY | |||
| LINKS SECTIONS: Top Lady Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General | |||
| Site Name | What you will find | ||
| Llandovery College | Lady
Llanover helped to found Llandovery College in 1847. This site
will be of interest and use to those wanting to find out about the
college for the
first
time as
well as to current and past
parents, College pupils and the Old Llandoverian Society. |
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| Llanover Estate | Llanover Estate as it is today |
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| web.ukonline.co.uk/h.forder | Site devoted to the publication of personal research into the life and times of Lady Llanover by a Steering member of the Lady Llanover Society, whose Great grandfather was Under-agent to Lady Llanover. | ||
| MUSIC | |||
| LINKS SECTIONS: Top Lady Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General | |||
| Site Name | What you will find | ||
| www.barlowharps.demon.co.uk | Maker & restorer of harpsichords, fortepianos and harps. The Welsh Triple Harp page includes photographs of the replica triple harps he has produced, which are based on a harp built around 1900 on the Llanover estate. |
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| www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html | Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites. | ||
| www.crasdant.com | Band of Welsh instrumentalists who also specialise in traditional clog dancing. The traditional harp of Wales is played with the unique triple harp, flutes, guitar, fiddle, accordion & the Welsh reed instrument – the pibgorn, together with the step-dancing of a champion clogger | ||
| www.tycerdd.org | (Music Centre Wales) is a one-stop music information service network, bringing "a world of music to Wales and the music of Wales to the world". | ||
| www.tradsong.freeserve.co.uk/mjwill99.PDF | An article by Lewis Jones ‘Maria Jane Williams , Pioneer Collector of Welsh Folk Songs’ First published in ‘English Dance & Song’ in June 1999. (PDF file) | ||
| www.trac-cymru.org/organisations.htm | trac is the folk development organisation for Wales. Set up in 1997, it began by commissioning a study on the state of folk and traditional music in Wales. |
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| Lady Llanover and the Triple Harp | ‘Lady Llanover and the Triple Harp’ an article by Rachel Ley, Bangor University (PDF file) |
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| Cambridge Harp Association | The web site of the Cambridge Harp Association. The site describes the harps owned by the society and how it has been raising money for the restoration of the university's collection of antique harps. |
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| Welsh Music Institute | Archive of Traditional Welsh Music | ||
| DANCE | |||
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| www.welshfolkdance.org.uk | The Welsh Folk Dance Society whose aims are to educate the public in the art of Welsh folk dancing. |
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| fp.millennas.f9.co.uk/wllanover.htm | An article written in 1935 by Hugh Mellor about ‘The Llanover Dances’ | ||
| LANGUAGE | |||
| LINKS SECTIONS: Top Lady Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General | |||
| Site Name | What you will find | ||
Web site of the Carnhuanawc Society |
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| www.aber.ac.uk/cyd/mudiad.html | CYD is a Welsh language movement which offers social opportunity to bring Welsh learners and speakers together. |
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| HMC | The Historical Manuscripts Commission (including National Register of Archives) has joined with the Public Record Office to become The National Archives the UK's central advisory body on archives and manuscripts relating to British history. Established in 1869 by Royal Warrant, it is the principal source of information on the nature and location of records and a leading source of advice on matters relating to them. |
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| www.mentrau-iaith.com | Promoting Welsh in the Community |
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| www.gwybodiadur.co.uk | Directory of information concerning the Welsh language |
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| COSTUME | |||
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| www.llgc.org.uk/drych/drych_s054.htm | Illustrations from 'Cambrian costumes dedicated to the nobility and gentry of Wales’ – Created by Lady Llanover in 1830 |
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| The Llanover Project: the European Dimension | An article by Geoffrey Powell (PDF file) |
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| Welsh Costume and the Influence of Lady Llanover | An article by Christine Stevens (PDF file) |
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| TRADITION & CULTURE | |||
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| Site Name | What you will find | ||
| www.urdd.org | Encourages children to understand, respect and enjoy the many facets of Welsh culture from music and dance to sport and recreation | ||
www.tlysau.org.uk (Welsh) www.gtj.org.uk (English) |
Gathering the Jewels was established by a consortium of the following bodies: National Library of Wales, Society of Chief Librarians (Wales), National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Federation of Welsh Museums, Archives Council Wales, Royal Commission of Ancient and Historic Monuments Wales, Council of Museums in Wales, Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum, Welsh County Archivists Group. The goal of the project was to put the cream of Wales' cultural history,
from repositories throughout Wales, on the Internet for people to learn
from and enjoy. |
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| www.nmgw.ac.uk | National Museum & Galleries of Wales | ||
| www.nmgw.ac.uk | Museum of Welsh Life, St. Fagan's. | ||
| EVENTS | |||
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| www.communigate.co.uk/gwent/newyddiongwent | Newyddion Gwent is a Welsh language paper for Gwent with a key objective of helping to let people know what is happening in Gwent | ||
| www.eisteddfod.org.uk | The National Eisteddfod | ||
| Web site encouraging children to participate in local eisteddfodau & other Welsh activities | |||
| www.abergavennyeisteddfod.co.uk | Whether you like competing in Eisteddfod competitions or prefer being a spectator, you will be very welcome at the Abergavenny Eisteddfod. | ||
| General | |||
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| www.telynauteifi.co.uk | Telynau Teifi - harp makers | ||
| www.llgc.org.uk/cac/ | Archives Council of Wales |
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| www.walesontheweb.org | Subject gateway to material on the world wide web, which gives a guide to web sites offering information relating to Wales and all aspects of Welsh Life. The National Library of Wales is leading the project. |
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| www.abergavennyhistory.co.uk | Abergavenny Local History Society web site | ||
| fforwmhanescymru.org.uk | The Welsh History Forum was formed in August 1999. |
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| www.angelhotelabergavenny.com | Host to the Abergavenny Eisteddfodau and the Society’s AGM | ||
| www.cadw.wales.gov.uk | Historic Buildings, Parks & Gardens in Wales | ||
| www.rcahmw.org.uk/ | Royal Commission on Ancient And Historical Monuments | ||
| www.data-wales.co.uk | Site devoted to Welsh historical, geographical and cultural information | ||
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| This page was last updated on 19 September, 2006 | |||