As the situation in Israel and Palestine has escalated, WCIA affirm the calls of International NGOs and the global humanitarian community in calling for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza. We urge people in Wales to support petitions such as Oxfam’s ‘Call for a Ceasefire Now’, and to raise your voice […]
Over Spring 2023, Caitlyn Newman undertook a voluntary Insights Placement with WCIA through Cardiff University’s Centre for Student Life. Here she reflects on her placement tasks and learning. Before our personal projects were assigned, our first ‘team task’ (for myself and three other volunteers) was to assist with the Appraisal and Selection […]
Over the weekend of 1-2 November, WCIA are excited to welcome Welsh theatre company Mewn Cymeriad to the Temple of Peace to perform their production of ‘Annie Cwrt Mawr‘: “A one-woman play based on the life of Annie Jane Hughes Griffiths. A campaigner for peace gave me a voice Welsh […]
Khai Noor Shahmir hard at work in the Temple Library & Archives When I started my Archiveathon insight with the WCIA in March, I was eager to learn more of the inner workings of an archive and what it takes to manage it effectively. I was especially interested in the […]
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. […]
