Fonds GB 0210 BETIES - Bet Davies (WDA) Archive

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0210 BETIES

Title

Bet Davies (WDA) Archive

Date(s)

  • 1985-2012 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

4 boxes.

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Bet Davies is a former director of communications at The Welsh Development Agency (WDA). She was born in Manchester and raised in Dyffryn Nantlle from the age of four and attended the University of Wales in Aberystwyth where she completed an MA on the patrons of the bards in Llŷn and Eifionydd. She spent twenty years working with The Wales Tourist Board as an editor and head of Public Relations and as head of Corporate Affairs of The Wales Millennium Centre. In 2003 she was honoured by the Japanese Government for her role in promoting cultural and economic ties between Wales and Japan. Bet Davies delivered a lecture entitled Pobl ddŵad Dyffryn Nantlle [Incomers to Dyffryn Nantlle] in 2006 in the series of Penygroes Library lectures which was published in the same year.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Donated by Ms Bet Davies, Cardiff, in August 2017.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Papers accumulated by Bet Davies, 1985-2012, in her work with the WDA, Japan 2001 festival, a celebration of Japan in Wales, and at The Wales Millennium Centre.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged at NLW into one group: professional papers.

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Conditions governing access

Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library. = Disgwylir i ddarllenwyr sydd am ddefnyddio papurau modern yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru gydymffurfio â Deddf Gwarchod Data 1998 yng nghyd-destun unrhyw brosesu ganddynt o ddata personol a gasglwyd o gofnodion modern sydd ar gadw yn y Llyfrgell. Nodir y manylion yn yr wybodaeth a roddir wrth wneud cais am Docyn Darllen.

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

  • English
  • Welsh

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14 video tapes (VM 9396-9409) and a DVD (6248) have been transferred to The National Screen And Sound Archive of Wales. Photographs have been transferred to the NLW Photographic Collection.

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Alma system control number

99803943302419

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

Rules and/or conventions used

Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.

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Dates of creation revision deletion

June 2018.

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Sources

The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Bet Davies, Pobl ddŵad (Darlith flynyddol Llyfrgell Penygroes 2006), and papers in the archive.

Archivist's note

Description compiled by Ann Francis Evans.

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