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The National library of Wales offers a wide range of free online resources.
BookTrust Cymru works to inspire a love of reading in children because we know that reading can transform lives.
People's Collection Wales capture and celebrate the rich history of Wales by collecting unique stories from everyday people.
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Access to hundreds of newspapers over the centuries with the archives of the National Library of Wales.
Welsh Newspapers Online allows you to search and access over 1,100,000 pages out of over 120 newspaper publications generally up to 1910.
Coming from the extensive holdings of the British Library, 19th Century British Library Newspapers presents a wide range of incredible local and regional voices to reflect social events.
The Telegraph Historical Archive has over 1 million pages of content and with a Sunday edition since its inception in 1961.
The Daily Mail Historical Archive contains more than a hundred years of the UK's national newspaper, which can be viewed in full digital facsimile form.
The Independent is one of the major British daily national newspapers, launched in 1986 as an antidote to its prominent political opponents.
Online full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most respected resources for 18th, 19th and 20th century news commentary.
With some 3.5 million articles and more than 800,000 digitized pages, the Sunday Times Historical Archive is a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers and culture of the past two centuries.
Includes all published editions, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003. The text is fully searchable with high quality digital imaging.
Contains hundreds of thousands of newspaper items relating to people and events in the area, represented by the former county of West Glamorgan, covering the period between 1804 and 1881.
Free access to current and recent issues of UK newspapers. and Ireland (2007-) including 37 publications from Wales including The Western Mail, Carmarthen Journal and the Western Telegraph.
This historic newspaper offers direct online accounts that are easy to search, and unparalleled coverage of politics, society and events of the time.
An A-Z list of Welsh local papers, with links to their websites and an appendix containing some that are no longer published.
Each library has their own guidelines for getting a card. Some libraries will offer sign up for a new library account online, with others you will need to visit the library in person to join.
You will need to contact your local library service for the PIN.
If you are unsure of the contact details of the library, please go to ‘Find My Nearest Library’ on the https://libraries.wales website (front page under ‘Join Your Library’), where you will find the details.
We’ve put together a list of the best places to access reference resources about Wales.
Discover Welsh history and heritage along with Welsh family history on The National Library of Wales website.
This website contains over five thousand concise biographies of Welsh people who have made a significant contribution to national life, whether in Wales or more widely.
People’s Collection Wales is a free website dedicated to bringing together Wales’s heritage.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales is a charity, and a family of seven national museums and one collections centre located across Wales.
Wicipedia is the Welsh language edition of Wikepedia. This edition was started in July 2003.
Hwb hosts a national collection of digital resources to support learning and teaching for learners aged 3 to 19 in Wales which will be known as the National Digital Content Repository.
Trusted list of UK Reference Resources
International abstracting & indexing tool for research in the humanities, covering internationally respected humanities journals & magazines published in the UK and other English-speaking countries
Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. Their collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world’s the best reference publishers.
The Britannica Online offers the fully searchable and browsable text of the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Gale Virtual Reference Library is an online library of reference titles for multi-disciplinary research.
Statista.com is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform.
Who’s Who, published annually since 1849 and the first biographical book of its kind, is among the world‘s most recognised and respected works of reference.
Explore eBooks, eAudiobooks, digital magazines, digital newspapers and more with your library membership in Wales.
Read the latest magazines and newspapers online for free with your library membership.
Borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks for free with your library membership and enjoy reading or listening on the go.
Discover your roots with free access to family history resources at your local library, including Ancestry.
Prepare for your driving theory test with free online practice and study tools available with your library membership.
Access the wealth of electronic resources available through the National Library of Wales.
Access hundreds of newspapers from centuries ago to the present day with your National Library of Wales Reader's Ticket.
People's Collection Wales is a free website dedicated to bringing together Wales's heritage.
We’ve put together a list of the best places to access reference resources about Wales available with your National Library of Wales Reader's Ticket.
A selection of some of the main online reference resources in the UK available with your National Library of Wales membership.
Free access to online subscription platforms
The BorrowBox service has a wide range of e-books and e-audio books available for you to download onto your computer or most mobile devices to read and to listen to.
PressReader is your digital newsstand for newspapers and magazines. Access more than 7,000 of the world’s top publications as soon as they’re available on shelves.
Theory Test Pro is a highly realistic online simulation of the UK’s driving theory test. It contains the official practice test question bank, hazard perception video clips and an online version of t
Search into the history of everyday people through millions of primary and secondary sources – family trees, census, vital records, military & immigration records, land records, wills, newspapers and
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