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An archive of Glynn Vivian Art Gallery talks, interviews, guides and music, ranging from historical to contemporary subjects, led by artists, curators, educators and historians. Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is is part of the City & County of Swansea and is supported by the Arts Council of Wales and through grant aid from CyMAL.
Tigers, Dragons and Libraries – connections between Swansea and India
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On Air
45 minutes 35 seconds
1 month ago
Tigers, Dragons and Libraries – connections between Swansea and India
A look at some fascinating historic links between Swansea and India such as how a scholar of Hinduism played a significant role in bringing public libraries to Swansea in this the 150th anniversary of the founding of Swansea Public Libraries in 1875. As well as looking at the visits to Victorian Swansea by members of the Indian National Congress and tales of the Swansea Captain John Jones of the East India Company.
Gwilym Games, Librarian: Local Studies, Swansea Libraries
Teigrod, Dreigiau a Llyfrgelloedd – cysylltiadau rhwng Abertawe ac India (cynhelir y sgwrs yn Saesneg yn unig).
Cewch gip ar gysylltiadau hanesyddol diddorol rhwng Abertawe ac India, er enghraifft sut gwnaeth ysgolhaig Hindŵaeth chwarae rôl arwyddocaol wrth ddod â llyfrgelloedd cyhoeddus i Abertawe, wrth i ni nodi 150 mlynedd ers sefydlu Llyfrgelloedd Cyhoeddus Abertawe ym 1875. Yn ogystal, bydd yn trafod ymweliadau aelodau o Gyngres Genedlaethol India ag Abertawe yn oes Victoria a hanesion Capten John Jones o Abertawe a oedd yn gweithio i East India Company.
Gwilym Games, Llyfrgellydd: Astudiaethau Lleol, Llyfrgelloedd Abertawe
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On Air
An archive of Glynn Vivian Art Gallery talks, interviews, guides and music, ranging from historical to contemporary subjects, led by artists, curators, educators and historians. Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is is part of the City & County of Swansea and is supported by the Arts Council of Wales and through grant aid from CyMAL.
