Thursday 21st September is UN International Day of Peace, commonly known as World Peace Day. The UN’s theme this year is ‘Action for Peace – Ambitions for the #GlobalGoals’. 2023 is the midway point towards attaining the Sustainable Development Goals, set in 2015 with action targets for 2030. 2023 is […]
Ahead of the 40th Anniversary (in 2025) of Dolen Cymru, the Wales Lesotho Link – the world’s first country to country ‘twinning’ – WCIA are supporting Dolen to research and digitise archives from the founding and early years of the link. Over Summer 2023, the Temple of Peace Heritage team […]
Sam has recently completed a work experience placement with WCIA, curating and digitising the Minnie James Collection. Mrs James opened the Temple of Peace in 1938 on behalf of the ‘war bereaved mothers of Wales and the world’, having lost 3 sons to WW1 and its aftermath. Her mementoes and […]
During the spring of 2023, during my final year of undergraduate studies at Cardiff university studying ancient history and history, I undertook a placement with the heritage team at the WCIA, centred around film clip production. I was tasked with creating a short informative video on the story of the […]
Tom Chambers is an Ancient History student with the Open University, who has recently completed a 6-week Heritage Placement with WCIA funded through OU’s ‘GROW’ programme. Tom’s experience was selected for an Open University short film feature about the benefits of work placements – hear what he had to say! […]
At this year’s National Eisteddfod near Pwllheli over the first week of August, this event hosted by the National Library of Wales is an opportunity to hear about the work of preserving, digitising, displaying and engaging with the Heritage Lottery funded Women’s Peace Petition project. […]
On 12 July WCIA were delighted to welcome representatives of Buddhist Peace movement Soka Gokkai International in Wales to the Temple of Peace, who have gifted a significant collection of contemporary books on peace building and cooperation to the Temple of Peace Library. The SGI Peace Collection has been assembled […]
Transcription Portal The 390,296 women behind Wales’ Peace Petition campaign of 1923-24 were united by a vision for ‘the proud heritage of a warless world’ – a vision shared a hundred years later by those inspired to action by their story. Over the course of the centenary campaign, the Academi […]
5 July 1948 was the “designated day” on which Britain’s National Health Service came into being – borne out of the aftermath of World World War Two, and the enormous social and political changes brought about through post-war reconstruction. 75 years later, NHS providers across England and the devolved nations […]
On Wednesday 5th July 2023 at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, Wales’ Young Peacemakers Awards were presented by Welsh Government’s Counsel General Mick Antoniw, among the impressive surroundings of Llangollen’s International Pavilion. Organised jointly by the Welsh Centre for International Affairs (WCIA), Academi Heddwch Cymru and Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod the […]
