Identity area
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Title
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.
Conditions of access and use area
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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Existence and location of copies
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
Status
Level of detail
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.