The Richard Burton Archives is the corporate memory and archive repository of Swansea University and holds material of local, regional and national significance. The Archives selects, preserves and makes accessible to all the records of historical value created or acquired by the University. Through its holdings and the expertise of its staff the Archives actively supports the mission of the University to provide an environment of research excellence, to deliver an outstanding student experience with teaching of the highest quality, and to enrich the community and cultural life of Wales and beyond.
Through its holdings and the expertise of its staff the Richard Burton Archives actively supports the mission of the University to provide an environment of research excellence, to deliver an outstanding student experience with teaching of the highest quality, and to enrich the community and cultural life of Wales and beyond.
We work collaboratively and develop partnerships within Swansea University and with other organisations, engaging with students, academics, special interest groups, local communities and other stakeholders. We continue to be involved in a wide range of access, cataloguing, outreach and preservation projects based on our collections.
Metal Industries
- Wales Powering the World (case study 5 in TNA / RLUK Guide to collaboration between the archive and higher education sectors)
- Wales: Showing our Metal
- Profiting from Powering the World
- Sandfields: A Community Built on Steel with exhibition, and Sandfields: A Vision of Steel
- Social Worlds of Steel
- Copper including Hafod Morfa and White Rock
South Wales Coalfield
- Ysgol Maesydderwen ‘Tell Our Story’, a Connected Communities project
- Tylorstown Welfare Hall
- Disability and Industrial Society
- Research resources in medical history with ‘Medical Records for the South Wales Coalfield, C.1890-1948: An Annotated Guide to the South Wales Coalfield Collection: An Annotated Guide to the South Wales Coalfield Collection’
Other aspects of our collections
- Richard Burton including an edition of his diaries, Burton@14, as well as the Becoming Richard Burton ACNMW exhibition and online platform
- Swansea University centenary
- Raissa Page
- Votes for Women exhibition in collaboration with West Glamorgan Archives, Women’s Archive Wales, Swansea Museum and Welsh Government
Online