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Hughesovka - Welsh Migration and...
This resource invites learners to approach the history of Welsh industrialisation from a different perspective. The city of Hughesovka, today’s Donetsk in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine (former Russian Empire), was founded by Welsh and British workers. Using Hughesovka as a case study, the resource aims to enable learners to develop a more nuanced and critical perspective on the history of industrialisation in their country and to critically engage with archival material.Authors: Clara Defachel and Dr Victoria Donovan, University of St Andrews, Scotland. People’s Collection Wales.The source material (photographs and other images) within this resource comes from the Hughesovka Research Archive, held at the Glamorgan Archives, and these are reproduced here with their kind permission. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesHistoryProgression Step: 3 & 4 Lifelong LearningThis resource provides opportunities for personal or professional development. See the Quick Links below for a collection of images to accompany this resource. Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students.

The Holocaust and Wales: Kindertransport 1
Fleeing across Europe to escape the Nazis, about 10,000 Jewish children arrived in Britain between December 1938 and September 1939 on the Kindertransport (children’s transport). The British government only admitted unaccompanied minors through this scheme, even though most of them had lived with their parents and other members of their families before their flight. In this collection of resources, we explore some of the stories of child refugees who came on the Kindertransport to Wales.Image above: Dorothy Fleming, aged four, standing in Rathauspark in Vienna. The photograph was taken in 1932. © From the collection at the National Holocaust Centre and Museum, UK. Kindertransport 1: Jewish life in Central Europe before the Second World War. This first resource explores the life of a young Austrian Jewish girl, Dorothy Fleming, before she arrived in Cardiff. This resource was produced as part of the 'Côf a lithr, llythyrau a geidw: creating Holocaust resources for Welsh schools' partnership project between Centre for the Movement of People (CMOP), Aberystwyth University, and Jewish History Association of South Wales/Cymdeithas Hanes Iddewig De Cymru (JHASW/CHIDC). The project is kindly supported by the Association of Jewish Refugees, Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Jewish Historical Society of England and Garfield Weston Foundation. Curriculum for WalesHealth and Wellbeing, Humanities, Languages, Literacy and CommunicationAge: 9-14 / Progression Step: 3 & 4 Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students using our website. It is one of a series of 4 on the topic of 'Kindertransport’. Here are links to the other resources in this series:Kindertransport 2Kindertransport 3Kindertransport 4 See the Quick Links below for content to accompany this resource.

Heritage Preservation Toolkit
Preserving and sharing your historical documentsThe Jewish History Association of South Wales / Cymdeithas Hanes Iddewig De Cymru (JHASW / CHIDC) was established in November 2017 with the aim to uncover, document, preserve and share the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the Jewish communities of south Wales.These documents form part of a Heritage Toolkit which will enable small communities and organisations to take the first steps towards preserving and sharing their heritage, even if they have no experience in this field.Glamorgan Archives has been a long-term partner for many JHASW/CHIDC projects and contributed these documents as part of a joint project (together with People’s Collection Wales) for the Welsh Government funded Coronavirus Recovery Grant For Volunteering 2020/21. This resource contains guidance on: Preserving your historical material at your local archivesGuidelines for Listing records prior to deposit at Glamorgan ArchivesDocument Handling - General Principles Sharing your historical material on People's Collection WalesHow to create a People's Collection Wales catalogue for Tangible MaterialCopyright - a very brief introduction Further parts of the toolkit can be found on our website at www.jhasw.com/heritage-toolkit. Lifelong LearningThis resource is for adult learners and provides opportunities for personal or professional development. Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities to help you develop new skills and knowledge. See the Quick Links below for content to accompany this resource.

How to upload to People's Collection Wales
Would you like to contribute your content to People's Collection Wales? Not quite sure how to get started? Watch our short video below, then read our easy to follow How To guides to learn how to register an account, upload and publish.Teachers: The skills developed when creating an account and uploading items to People's Collection Wales fulfil many of the requirements of the Digital Competence Framework. Read more in our Teachers Toolbox. Curriculum for WalesDigital Competence Framework Age: 8-16 / Progression Step: 3, 4 and 5 Lifelong LearningThis resource provides opportunities for personal or professional development.

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Paul Robeson’s Early Life
What do we know about the early life of Paul Robeson? This unit supports pupils’ development of enquiry skills by looking at some of the evidence of the early years of Robeson’s life. What challenges and experience did his family have in their daily lives as African-Americans living in early twentieth century United States of America? Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesHistoryAge: 11-14 / Progression Step: 4 Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students using our content. It is one of a series of six relating to Paul Robeson for Progression Step 4.

Welsh women in industrial communities c.1800-1920

Welsh women in maritime communities c.1800-1920

Let Paul Robeson Sing!
How have some individuals, living in the twentieth century, shaped our world today? This resource is an introduction to the African-American Paul Robeson. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesHistoryAge: 11-14 / Progression Step: 4 Learning Activity PackThis resource provides learning activities for your students using our content. It is one of a series of six relating to Paul Robeson for Progression Step 4.

Welsh Women Working

Cardiff Millenium Stadium
Cardiff Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and the Wales national football team and also host to other large-scale events. It superceded Cardiff Arms Park in 1999. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesAge / Progression Step: AllHistory Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Wales 1900-2000: Part 3

Health and Medicine, 1660 to the present day

Protests by the Welsh Language Society

Crime and Punishment in Wales

Development of Wales, 1900-2000

Swansea during the First World War

Urdd Gobaith Cymru
Welsh youth movement Urdd Gobaith Cymru, or The Urdd, was founded in 1922 to provide children and young people with the chance to learn and socialise in the Welsh language. Today, over 50,000 young people are members of the Urdd and the annual Eisteddfod is one of Europe's largest youth festivals.In 2022 we celebrate 100 years of the Urdd! Join the celebration by adding your photos and memories of the Urdd to People's Collection Wales.How to get involved:Find your photos or recordings of past Urdd events, activities or EisteddfodsOr join The Urdd's Centenary Birthday Party in 2022 and take some new photos and recordings!Add your Urdd content, memories and stories to People's Collection WalesOr send them to us via social media (see links to Twitter and Facebook at bottom of this page)Add the tag Penblwydd-Hapus-Urdd to your content and we will create a new collection which we will add to this resource For help with uploading your content, see our How To Guides or book a free 1-2-1 virtual support session with PCW Learning Officer Catalena for support. Curriculum for Wales 2022Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Humanities, Languages, Literacy and Communication, Digital Competence FrameworkAge / Progression Step: All Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class. See content related to the Urdd in the Quick links below or explore The Urdd account on PCW.

Women and Protest in Wales

David Lloyd George
The first Welshman to be Prime Minister of Britain, David Lloyd George was a Liberal who is credited as being the father of the 'Welfare State' thanks to his People's Budget of 1910. A Welsh-speaking Nonconformist, he was brought up in Llanystumdwy in Gwynedd. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesAge: 11-16History, Famous Welsh People Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Workmens' Halls and Institutes
The collectivist social traditions of the industrial areas found expression in workingmen’s clubs and institutes that combined education, leisure and politics in remarkable ways. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesAge: 8-16 / Progression Step: 3, 4 & 5 Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Post War and Food Rationing

John Cornwell: Colliery photos
John Cornwell was a freelance photographer who took many photographs of collieries, mostly in south Wales and the English Midlands, both underground and on the surface, during the 1970s and early 1980s. He perfected a method of underground photography using the standard colliery lighting and was able to photograph coal faces, roadways, shafts and equipment with amazing clarity. In addition to photographing working mines he also recorded abandoned mine workings, above and below ground. John Cornwell was also well respected in the broader field of industrial archaeology. He published a number of books on Welsh and English collieries. The copyright of his south Wales images are now owned by National Museum Wales. Curriculum for WalesHumanities, Expressive ArtsFamous Welsh PeopleAge / Progression Step: All Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Swansea during WW2

William Morgan's Welsh Bible of 1588
The publication of the first translation of the complete Bible by Bishop William Morgan in 1588 is recognised as one of the most important events in the history of the Welsh language. This collection contains a selection of pages from the Old Testament. Curriculum for WalesHumanities, Languages, Literacy and CommunicationFamous Welsh PeopleAge / Progression Step: All Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Wales 1900-2000: Part 1

Pressures on Traditional Way of Life
This collection supports the WJEC GCSE option Wales 1900-2000, specifically the factors affecting the traditional way of life, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesHistoryAge: 8-16 / Progression Step: 3, 4 & 5 Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Maerdy Colliery
In December 1990, Maerdy, the last coal mining pit in the Rhondda closed, bringing to an end a long and proud tradition. Many of these photographs were taken in the 1970s by John Cornwell. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesHistoryAge: 8-16 / Progression Step: 3, 4 & 5 Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Changing Attitudes to Welsh Language

Diary of Edgar Wynn Williams, First World War
Extracts from the diary of Edgar Wynn Williams from Llanelli who served as a driver in the Army Service Corps during the First World War. Curriculum for WalesHumanities, Language, Literacy and Communication History, Literacy SkillsAge: 8-16 / Progression Step: 3, 4 & 5 Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Industrial Strikes in Wales
To commemorate the anniversary of the great general strike of 1926 this collection takes a look at the industrial unrest in Wales over the years. From the miner’s strike of 1984 to the 1910 Cambrian Comnine strike. Curriculum for WalesHumanitiesHistoryAge: 8-16 / Progression Step: 3, 4 & 5 Learning CollectionWe have collected these items together so that you can quickly and easily use them as resources to create activities for your class.

Changing Patterns of Work in Wales

Cardiff Air Raid Collection