‘I am fire, I am peace, I am a future, where all we do is playfight.’ from ‘I am peace’ by Sandra Elvebatten Myrland 2023 A delegation from Wales, including First Minister Mark Drakeford and Chief Executive of WCIA Susie VentrisField, visited Oslo in May 2022 to support the launch […]
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Dolen Cymru 40th Anniversary – Archives Project and ‘Call for Histories’
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 Mutter – Placement Review, Minnie James Collection
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 […]
Talking sustainability at People Planet Pints
Wed 9 August 2023. WCIA staff came along to the monthly People Planet Pints event hosted at Zero Degrees in Cardiff. It’s an informal event that brings together people from a variety of sectors, from business to local government, students, consultants and everything in-between. There is no agenda, no workshops […]
WCIA Placement Review: Abby Craig-Jones uncovers the story behind the 1925 Welsh Churches Peace Petition
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 […]
Open University student Tom Chambers reflects on Heritage Placement with WCIA
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! […]
National Eisteddfod, Llŷn – Celebration of Women’s Peace Petition Partnership, 7th August
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. […]
How to tackle polarisation in communities
The workshop shed light on the spill-over effects of polarisation in various aspects of everyday life. For example, how polarisation affects investment decisions, consumer behaviour as well as hiring practices. 12 July 2023, the Tackling Polarisation in Communities workshop in the Cardiff University sbarc|spark building, organised by WISERD and the […]