On the evening of 17th January, 1946, the world’s first United Nations General Assembly was formally opened with a ceremonial gathering at London’s Royal Albert Hall – the ‘British Welcome’ to delegates of every nation. Reading through this opening programme from the Temple of Peace Archives (below), one remarkable thing […]
Over 2022, WCIA will be producing regular ‘Peace100’ features on significant Peace Heritage anniversaries – ‘Hidden Histories’ from the archives of the Temple of Peace and beyond. 10th January, On This Day (#OTD): The League of Nations came into being in Paris, 10 January 1920 The League of Nations, the […]
23rd November marks the anniversary of the opening of Wales’ Temple of Peace & Health, on 23rd November 1938 – with this year being a grand old 83rd birthday. WCIA are celebrating the day with the launch of recently-developed online Temple Tours, as well as a programme of monthly guided […]
Alaw Primary School in Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, are a ‘peace school’ who know how to make history ‘cool’! Alaw have been using the story behind the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition of 1923 to bring alive subjects across the primary curriculum, as they learned about ‘Annie’s Diary‘ – a journal […]
WCIA marked Armistice Day on Thursday 11th November, with a time-honoured tradition of ‘the Turning of the Page’ of Wales’ World War One Book of Remembrance, in the Crypt at the heart of Wales’ Temple of Peace – built as the nation’s memorial to the fallen of WW1, and opened […]
Over 3rd and 4th November 2021, WCIA and Hub Cymru Africa facilitated the Wales & Africa Health Links Network Annual Conference, bringing together health practitioners, volunteers community groups and development charities currently active in health interventions and projects Wales and world-wide. The Network was set up from 2006, so this […]
‘Hidden Histories’ Feature researched and curated by Iman Hamizan, on Student Placement via GO Wales from Aberystwyth University’s Dept of International Politics. WCIA celebrates its 50th Birthday in 2023. As we approach this significant milestone, our volunteer placements have been exploring and digitising Archive Records from WCIA’s ‘Founding Years’, 1973 […]
International Women’s Day on 8 March has been marked annually as a United Nations Day since 1975 – designated ‘international women’s year‘ – building on a tradition started in March 1911, when the first “International Women’s Day” was started by women in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark. In the 100 […]
By Craig Owen, WCIA / Temple of Peace Heritage Advisor and Curator William Roch Davies (W.R., widely known as Bill Davies) was the Founding Director of WCIA – the Welsh Centre for International Affairs – from 1973 to 1996. His lifelong involvement with Wales’ Temple of Peace extended from his […]
WCIA’s ‘Temple of Peace’ team and supporters Wales-wide are saddened to learn of the passing of prominent Welsh Internationalist, historian and former MP for Aberavon Dr Hywel Francis on February 14th 2021, aged 74, at Morriston Hospital. Wales Online ‘Tributes pour in for former Welsh MP Hywel Francis‘ South Wales […]
