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| LADY
LLANOVER & HER LEGACY |
| LINKS
SECTIONS: Top Lady
Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General |
| Site Name |
What you will find |
| Llandovery
College |
Lady
Llanover helped to found Llandovery College in 1847. This site
will be of interest and use to those wanting to find out about the
college for the
first
time as
well as to current and past
parents, College pupils and the Old Llandoverian Society.
www.llandoverycollege.com |
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| Llanover Estate |
Llanover Estate as it is today
www.llanover.com |
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| augustaladyllanover.coffeecup.com |
Site
devoted to the publication of personal research into the life and times
of Lady Llanover by a Steering member of the Lady Llanover Society,
whose Great grandfather was
Under-agent
to
Lady Llanover. |
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| MUSIC |
| LINKS
SECTIONS: Top Lady
Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General |
| Site
Name |
What
you will find |
| www.barlowharps.com |
Maker & restorer
of harpsichords, fortepianos and harps. The Welsh Triple Harp page
includes photographs of the replica triple harps he has produced, which
are based on a harp built around 1900 on the Llanover estate. |
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| www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html |
Ceolas
houses the largest online collection of information on celtic music,
and has links to hundreds of related
sites. |
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| www.crasdant.com |
Band
of Welsh instrumentalists who also specialise in traditional clog dancing.
The traditional harp of
Wales is played with the unique triple harp, flutes, guitar, fiddle, accordion & the
Welsh reed instrument – the pibgorn, together with the step-dancing of
a champion clogger |
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| www.tycerdd.org |
(Music Centre Wales) is a one-stop music information
service network, bringing "a world of music to Wales and the music
of Wales to the world". |
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| www.tradsong.org/mjwill99.PDF |
An
article by Lewis Jones ‘Maria Jane Williams
, Pioneer Collector of Welsh Folk Songs’ First published in ‘English Dance & Song’ in
June 1999. (PDF file) |
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| www.trac-cymru.org/organisations.htm |
trac is
the folk development organisation for Wales. Set up in 1997, it
began by commissioning a study on the state of folk and traditional
music in Wales. |
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| Lady Llanover
and the Triple Harp |
‘Lady
Llanover and the Triple Harp’ an article
by Rachel Ley, Bangor University (PDF file) |
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| Bangor
University School of Music |
Archive
of Traditional Welsh Music |
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| www.dsmusic.com |
DS Music, Monmouth |
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| DANCE |
| LINKS
SECTIONS: Top Lady
Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General |
| Site
Name |
What
you will find |
| www.dawnsio.com/en/ |
The
Welsh Folk Dance Society whose
aims are to educate the public in the art of Welsh folk dancing. |
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| LANGUAGE |
| LINKS
SECTIONS: Top Lady
Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General |
| Site
Name |
What
you will find |
www.carnhuanawc.org |
Web
site of the Carnhuanawc Society |
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| www.cyd.org.uk |
CYD
is a Welsh language movement which offers social opportunity to bring
Welsh learners and speakers together. |
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| HMC |
The Historical Manuscripts
Commission (including National Register of Archives) has
joined with the Public Record Office to become The National Archives the
UK's central advisory body on archives and manuscripts relating to
British history. Established in 1869 by Royal Warrant, it is the
principal source of information on the nature and location of records
and a leading source of advice on matters relating to them. |
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| www.mentrau-iaith.com |
Promoting
Welsh in the Community |
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| www.gwybodiadur.co.uk |
Directory
of information concerning the Welsh language |
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| COSTUME |
| LINKS
SECTIONS: Top Lady
Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General |
| Site
Name |
What
you will find |
| www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=600 |
Illustrations
from 'Cambrian costumes dedicated to
the nobility and gentry of Wales’ – Created by Lady Llanover in 1830 |
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| The Llanover
Project: the European Dimension |
An article by Geoffrey Powell (PDF file) |
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| Welsh
Costume and the Influence of Lady Llanover |
An article by Christine Stevens (PDF file) |
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| TRADITION & CULTURE |
| LINKS
SECTIONS: Top Lady
Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General |
| Site
Name |
What
you will find |
| www.urdd.org |
Encourages
children to understand, respect and enjoy the many facets of Welsh culture
from music and dance to sport and recreation |
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www.gtj.org.uk |
The
Gathering the Jewels website features over 30,000 images of objects,
books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, archives
and libraries throughout Wales.
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| www.museumwales.ac.uk |
National
Museums of Wales |
| www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans |
St.
Fagan's National History Museum |
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| EVENTS |
| LINKS
SECTIONS: Top Lady
Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General |
| Site
Name |
What
you will find |
| www.cymdeithasgymraegtrefynwy.org.uk |
Monmouth and District Welsh Society |
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| www.eisteddfod.org.uk |
The National Eisteddfod |
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www.urdd.org/indexs.html |
Web
site
encouraging children to participate in local eisteddfodau & other
Welsh activities |
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| www.abergavennyeisteddfod.co.uk |
Whether you like competing in Eisteddfod competitions
or prefer being a spectator, you will be very welcome at the Abergavenny
Eisteddfod. |
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| General |
| LINKS
SECTIONS: Top Lady
Llanover & her legacy Music Dance Language Costume Tradition & Culture Events General |
| Site
Name |
What
you will find |
| www.telynauteifi.co.uk |
The
Harp Centre of Wales, Telynau Teifi Harps (Traditional handcrafted Celtic
and Folk Harps) |
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| www.archiveswales.org.uk |
Archives
Wales:
an index to collections of historical records held by archives repositories
in Wales |
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| www.abergavennylocalhistorysociety.org.uk |
Abergavenny
Local History Society web site |
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| fforwmhanescymru.org.uk |
History Forum for Wales (co-ordinating the history
of Wales) |
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| www.angelhotelabergavenny.com |
Host
to the Abergavenny Eisteddfodau and the Society’s AGM |
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| www.cadw.wales.gov.uk |
Historic
Buildings, Parks & Gardens in Wales |
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| www.rcahmw.org.uk/ |
Royal
Commission on Ancient And Historical Monuments |
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| www.data-wales.co.uk |
Site
devoted to Welsh historical, geographical and cultural information |
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| This
page was last updated on
13 April, 2012
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