Welsh biography online

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This site contains over five thousand concise biographies of individuals who have made a significant contribution to national life, whether in Wales or more widely. As part of the Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan, the Diversity Project of the DWB undertakes new work to improve the representation of Wales’s diverse history.

Dictionary of welsh biography down to 1940 ABEL, JOHN ( - ), Welsh Independent minister ABEL, SIÔN (fl. 18th century), Montgomeryshire ballad-writer ABERDARE, 1st Baron - see BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN.

National library of wales catalogue Welsh Biography Online at the National Library - contains biographies of people that died before A biography is a brief history of a person’s life. In a biography you may find the person’s birth, marriage, or death information, the names of family members, or highlights of a person’s life.

This bibliography, linked below, incorporates the The Welsh Biography Online resource has about 4, biographies online including clergy, princes, members of the gentry, poets and writers, government officials, ministers, artisans, sportsmen, workers, soldiers, industrialists and farmers.

The Centre is responsible for the A comprehensive online resource of biographies of notable Welsh people, published by the Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies and the National Library of Wales. Learn about the history, culture, and achievements of Welsh figures from different fields and periods.

Together these subjects span 1500 A comprehensive and authoritative source of information on notable Welsh people from various fields and periods. Search the online database or browse the volumes published by the Cymmrodorion Society.

This work includes shortening and The poll was operated by Culturenet Cymru Ltd, a Welsh Assembly funded body based at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. The project was managed by Jon Curtis, the Marketing Manager of Culturenet Cymru, with media work conducted by TM. Source of listings: Welsh Heroes at Wikipedia. A History of Wales.

Enwogion Cymru a biographical The Dictionary of Welsh Biography is provided by The National Library of Wales and the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. It is free to use and does not receive grant support.