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Sing, Wiggle, Giggle – It’s Rhyme Time! Rhyme Time sessions are held weekly across various Swansea Libraries, providing ...
07/06/2026

Sing, Wiggle, Giggle – It’s Rhyme Time! Rhyme Time sessions are held weekly across various Swansea Libraries, providing free, interactive songs and stories for babies and young children.

Help us Solve a Mystery @ Central Library
06/06/2026

Help us Solve a Mystery @ Central Library

Creative Workshop: Lizzie the Elephant’s AdventuresY Storfa, 18 June, 4pm - 5.30pmJoin writer Eric Ngalle Charles and Jo...
06/06/2026

Creative Workshop: Lizzie the Elephant’s Adventures
Y Storfa, 18 June, 4pm - 5.30pm

Join writer Eric Ngalle Charles and Jo from the Dylan Thomas Centre to celebrate Refugee Week with a creative workshop ideal for 8-12 year olds!

For years, Lizzie the Elephant lived in Swansea Museum. She’d travelled miles to get there, showing a lot of courage along the way. Join us for a fun, creative session where you can imagine, draw, and write your own adventure starring Lizzie the Elephant.

Free

Booking essential
[email protected]
01792 636464

This workshop is part of a Welsh Government funded partnership project between the Dylan Thomas Centre and Swansea Museum, which explores natural history through Dylan Thomas’ writing.

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with the phones at Llansamlet Library; please email us with any que...
06/06/2026

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with the phones at Llansamlet Library; please email us with any queries.

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We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you

Refugee Week - 15-21 June 2026The world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity an...
05/06/2026

Refugee Week - 15-21 June 2026

The world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.

Join the movement!

Refugee Week
Libraries Wales
Swansea City of Sanctuary

Empathy Week - Townhill Library
05/06/2026

Empathy Week - Townhill Library

Sketty Library- 05/06/2026 Our Rhyme Time has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
05/06/2026

Sketty Library- 05/06/2026 Our Rhyme Time has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Celfyddyd ogofâu Gŵyr yw'r hynaf yn y DUMae dadansoddiad newydd o linellau coch y tu mewn i ogof Bacon Hole yn awgrymu e...
05/06/2026

Celfyddyd ogofâu Gŵyr yw'r hynaf yn y DU

Mae dadansoddiad newydd o linellau coch y tu mewn i ogof Bacon Hole yn awgrymu eu bod wedi'u gwneud yn fwriadol gan fodau dynol hynafol tua 17,000 o flynyddoedd yn ôl.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c232dmk0xxdo

Darganfyddwch fwy am ein hanes cynhanesyddol yn Abertawe a Gŵyr yn Llyfrgelloedd Abertawe.

Mae'r casgliad astudiaethau lleol ar lawr cyntaf y Llyfrgell Ganolog. Mae gan y casgliad gasgliadau cyfeirio a benthyca cynhwysfawr sy'n cynnwys miloedd o lyfrau ar Abertawe, Gŵyr a Chymru.

Mae Llyfrgell Ganolog hefyd yn cadw ffeiliau o fwy na 70,000 o doriadau o bapurau newydd ar amrywiaeth helaeth o bynciau lleol.

Gall aelodau'r llyfrgell ddefnyddio The British Newspaper Archive - Mae mynediad iddi ym mhob un o Lyfrgelloedd Abertawe. Mae’n cynnwys dros 600 o deitlau papur newydd rhanbarthol a chenedlaethol o’r Deyrnas Unedig ac Iwerddon o’r 19eg a’r 20fed ganrif.

Gower cave art is oldest in the U.K.A new analysis of red lines inside a Bacon Hole, suggests they were made deliberatel...
05/06/2026

Gower cave art is oldest in the U.K.

A new analysis of red lines inside a Bacon Hole, suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c232dmk0xxdo

Find out more about our prehistoric history in Swansea and Gower at Swansea Libraries.

The local studies collection is located on the first floor of Central Library. The collection has comprehensive reference and lending collections of thousands of books on , and .

Central Library also maintains files of over 70,000 newspaper cuttings on a wide variety of local topics

Library members can access The British Newspaper Archive , in any of our libraries. It includes over 600 regional and national newspaper titles from the United Kingdom and Ireland from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Gower NT/YG Gŵyr Gower Show The Gower Society West Glamorgan Archive Service Libraries Wales

Thousands of eNewspapers and eMagazines available from your local library. Join today. Your library in one app. Download...
04/06/2026

Thousands of eNewspapers and eMagazines available from your local library. Join today. Your library in one app. Download the app now.
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