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 […]
Remembering for Peace: ‘Turning the Page’ for 11/11 2021
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 […]
Wales Africa Health Links 15th Conference: Celebrating International Development and a ‘heritage of humanity’
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 […]
WCIA’s Founding Years: A proud legacy in Development Education and Fundraising
‘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 2021: Countdown to Centenary of the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition to America
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 […]
Bill Davies, Founder of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs: A Tribute
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 […]
Wales and the Spanish Civil War – Memoriam to the work of Hywel Francis
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 […]
Volunteer Blog: Ffion reflects on Transcribing Annie’s Diary – the ‘Welsh Women’s Peace Tour’ of America, 1924.
Ffion Edwards, from Llantwit Major, has been volunteering from home on WCIA’s ‘Peace Heritage’ programme – transcribing the Women’s Peace Appeal ‘American Peace Tour’ diary of WLNU Chair Annie Hughes Griffiths, from 1924. […]
Celebrating Temple82: Welsh Historian shares family memories of the Temple of Peace
Following the 82nd Anniversary of the Temple of Peace, we want to share different perspectives on the importance of its legacy, the multiplicity of projects of those translational organizations based on the venue and the key role that the latter plays in cooperation as well as the forthcoming challenges brought […]
‘Architect of Peace’ for Temple82: Sir Percy Thomas, Construction & Story of Wales’ Temple of Peace & Health
Wales’ Temple of Peace has a unique architectural legacy: the only public building, Wales and world-wide, dedicated to the twin causes of peace and health. It was Pembrokeshire and Cardiff Architect Percy Thomas who rose to the challenge of turning this vision into bricks and mortar: to ‘create a peace building, for peacebuilding’. […]