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Archive essentials

Your Archives Team

Archivists: Emily Hewitt, Stacy O'Sullivan (maternity leave until May 2025)

Archive Assistants: Sarah Thompson, Stephanie Basford-Morris

Reading Room Opening Hours

Tuesday 9.15am-4.15pm
Wednesday 9.15am-4.15pm
Thursday 9.15am-4.15pm

All visits to the Archives are by prior appointment. We ask that readers provide us with details of the materials they wish to consult at least three working days prior to their visit. The Archives office is open Monday to Friday for enquiries.

Location Singleton Park Library

The Archives are on level 1 west of Singleton Park Library on the Singleton Campus of Swansea University (building 7, Map 4 on the campus plan).

If you can't find us, please ask at the Library information desk and a member of our team will come up to meet you.

Archives online tour

Our spaces

Student group in the reading room

Mobile shelving in our strongroom

Archives Accreditation award

Entrance to the Archives

Catalogues

Archives Catalogue
Coalfield Web Materials: CWM Project The CWM Project, created here at Swansea University, provides access to materials which capture aspects of the social, political and cultural life of the South Wales Coalfield during the 19th and 20th centuries. The site includes audio and video clips from interviews with miners, politicians and trade unionists and also photographs which illustrate all aspects of life in the coalfield.
South Wales Coalfield Collection (SWCC) The South Wales Coalfield Collection (SWCC) contains a variety of archival media which give insight into the experience of the South Wales Valleys during a period of industrial turmoil both from an institutional and personal perspective. It contains records of trade unions (notably the South Wales Miners' Federation, later the National Union of Mineworkers (South Wales Area) and the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, South Wales Division), Miners' Institutes, Co-operative Societies, and individuals connected with the mining community.
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