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Four months after the start of the Second World War, food rationing began in Wales. The first items to be rationed were bacon, butter and sugar. This ledger from Llangaffo Post Office covers WW2 and includes a list of those registered for Jam, Treacle and Syrup. Archifau Ynys Môn/Anglesey Archives

It's been a wintry few days across Wales this week. These snowy scenes of Haverfordwest taken by Joffre Swales in the late-1960s are from a collection at Pembrokeshire Archives / Archifdy Sir Benfro. ❄️📷☃️

On this day in 1840 the Chartist leaders Frost, Williams and Jones were sentenced to death because of the Newport Rising. During the rising at the Westgate Hotel, a brief battle broke out. About 22 were killed, ten were buried at St Woollos. Gwent Archives ref: DPA100/36

Is your New Years resolution going well or more like this cartoon from Ocean & National Magazine 1929. It was published by the Ocean Coal Company and United National Collieries, it is a valuable resource for studying life in the S. Wales coalfield in the 1920/30s. Glamorgan Archives

Uned Myrddin’s Adventure in the Archives: archives.wales/2025/01/20/adv… Carmarthenshire Archive Service

Today is #StDwynwensDay the patron saint of Welsh lovers. Here are 2 poems about love, from an autograph album kept between 1898-1913. Pembrokeshire Archives / Archifdy Sir Benfro : HDX/1623/2

Happy #DyddSantesDwynwen! This card from the late 1800’s comes from the Baker-Jones collection and was possibly exchanged between Thomas Baker Jones and his future wife Lizzie when they were courting. Gwent Archives : D5831/2/19/4

On #DyddSantesDwynwen here’s a photo from the Cowbridge High School for Girls collection. It shows the house captains for the year 1926 – for houses Ffydd (Faith), Gobaith (Hope) and – of course – Cariad (Love). Item from Glamorgan Archives

Happy Chinese New Year, it’s the Year of the Snake! This image from a manuscript in the National Library of Wales shows the constellations, Serpentarius (now called Ophiuchus, a man grasping a snake) and Scorpius (a giant scorpion). #chinesenewyear #snake

On this day in 1826 the Menai Suspension Bridge was completed, connecting Anglesey and the mainland. It was one of the first modern suspension bridges in the world and designed by the famous engineer, Thomas Telford. Image from CBHC / RCAHMW

It’s Hedgehog Day! This image is from Thomas Pennant’s 1766 book, ‘British zoology’. Pennant was a Welshman from Flintshire who wrote many books on animals and travel. Image from UWTSDLib

Transforming Collections Care at Gwent Archives:  An update: archives.wales/2025/02/05/tra…

This 19th century, handwritten book of sheet music, contains many entries written in Welsh (and some even with English translations!) Item from NorthEastWalesArchives : ref: P/10/1/75 #WelshLanguageMusicDay

These pictures contain pioneering freshwater ecologist Kathleen Carpenter, nee Zimmerman. She is known for her studies of the effects of metal pollution on Welsh rivers and her book Life in Inland Waters. Also @aberuniarchives.bsky.social #InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience

This is Georgiana Marcia Rolls, Lady Llangattock of the Hendre, posing with her huge dog in this photograph from the Rolls collection from Gwent Archives (Ref: D361) #LoveYourPetDay

To celebrate #StDavidsDay here are amazing 19th century photographs of St Davids Cathedral from Pembrokeshire Archives / Archifdy Sir Benfro 1. St Davids Cathedral from the South East, James Valentine (1815-1879) 2. Nave looking East, George Washington Wilson (1823-1893) 3. Choir, G.W.W 4. Altar, G.W.W. 🌻

‘All day cooking as it’s pancake day. I used up all my eggs too’ – from the diary of Agnes Griffiths of Style Farm, Bosherston, on 6th February 1883. Pembrokeshire Archives / Archifdy Sir Benfro : HDX/1017/2 #PancakeDay 🥞

This wonderful photograph of a dog show in Newport is from September 1909. It is probably from the second annual dog show of The Newport and District Canine Society. We hope all the dogs enjoyed themselves (and the humans too). Item from Gwent Archives #Crufts2025 🐶