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LADY LLANOVER & HER LEGACY
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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.
www.llandoverycollege.com

 
Llanover Estate

Llanover Estate as it is today
www.llanover.com

 
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
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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.

  
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.

 
Lady Llanover and the Triple Harp

‘Lady Llanover and the Triple Harp’ an article by Rachel Ley, Bangor University (PDF file)

 

 

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.

   
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.

   
fp.millennas.f9.co.uk/wllanover.htm An article written in 1935 by Hugh Mellor about ‘The Llanover Dances’

LANGUAGE
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uk.geocities.com/ajcouch/Carnhuanawc

Web site of the Carnhuanawc Society

 

 

www.aber.ac.uk/cyd/mudiad.html

CYD is a Welsh language movement which offers social opportunity to bring Welsh learners and speakers together. 

 

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.

 

www.mentrau-iaith.com

Promoting Welsh in the Community

 

www.gwybodiadur.co.uk

Directory of information concerning the Welsh language


COSTUME
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What you will find

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

The Llanover Project: the European Dimension

An article by Geoffrey Powell (PDF file)

 

Welsh Costume and the Influence of Lady Llanover

An article by Christine Stevens (PDF file)


TRADITION & CULTURE
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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.

   
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
   

www.urdd.org/HafanddalenS.htm

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

   
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.

   
www.abergavennyhistory.co.uk Abergavenny Local History Society web site
   
fforwmhanescymru.org.uk
The Welsh History Forum was formed in August 1999.
   
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