RCAHMW

1. Join the Team Digitising Wales’s Historic Maps – Georeferencing Assistants

   Join the pioneering team making Wales’s historic maps available online! The Royal Commission is recognised for its innovative work making historic mapping visible and accessible online. We are now seeking two full-time Georeferencing Assistants to help us progress our exciting project georeferencing a substantial collection of previously digitised historic maps. Working closely with the Mapping […]

2. Exploring the Wreck of the Rover at Marros, Carmarthenshire

   What have you got planned for St Patrick’s Day? Our maritime expert Dr Julian Whitewright has been out to Marros Sands on the Carmarthenshire coast investigating ‘Rover’ (NPRN 273642), an Irish wooden schooner shipwrecked in December 1886. As part of this work, we’ve updated the Coflein entry for the ship and the shipwreck (NPRN 417716) […]

3. Celebrating the history, heritage and chapels of Merthyr Tydfil

   The Capeli Cymru Project Team (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales) along with People’s Collection Wales, Heritage Network, Glamorgan Archives, and Gwent Archives will be in Canolfan Soar on Thursday, the 26th of March to talk about their exciting work and the different ways you can get involved. The Capeli Cymru […]

4. Help Shape the Future of the Royal Commission and Wales’s Heritage: Join Our Board of Commissioners 

   The Welsh Government is seeking to appoint a Chair and up to three Commissioners to join the board of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, an organisation that plays a leading role within the heritage sector in Wales.   This is an exciting time to be joining the Board as the Royal […]

5. Llangynidr Place-Names Workshop in Bannau Brycheiniog

   For over a year now, our Place Names Officer, Dr James January-McCann, has been running a series of place-names collection workshops in the north. These workshops have been jointly organised with Eryri National Park in their area, and with North Wales Wildlife Trust in Anglesey. Between all the workshops we’ve been able to record over 7500 names in total, most of which have not previously appeared […]