Women's Archive Wales
Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive Wales aims at raising the profile of women in Welsh history and safeguarding the sources of women's history. It collects papers, visual and audio material, and other records of women's lives and experiences and deposits them in repositories such as national and county archives for safe-keeping and public access. It holds regular events all over Wales every year, undertakes important projects, including several pioneering lottery-funded projects, on themes relating to women's history, and has created Women's Heritage Trails in numerous Welsh towns.
Women's Archive Wales welcomes membership from anyone who has a strong interest in the history of women in Wales. Membership and other details are available on the WAW website:
https://www.womensarchivewales.org/en/
HiPoints collection
Bangor - former home of suffragist Charlotte Price White
Llandudno - Edith Champneys was fined for wearing a police uniform in the 1920s while she was a police officer
Llandudno - the first suffrage society in Wales provided information and tea at its office from 1908
Wrexham - the town’s first female doctor received an OBE for her army service in Malta in WW1
Carmarthen - education and Red Cross pioneer Elizabeth Hughes was the first Welsh woman to receive an MBE
Swansea - Lillian May Davies grew up in a Swansea slum and became Princess Lilian of Sweden
Swansea - inscription at former Ragged School marks generosity of industrialist Amy Dillwyn
Abergavenny - birthplace of thriller writer Ethel Lina White
Abergavenny - Ellen Fielder, the first 'lady guardian' in Wales. drove improvements in care at the workhouse