The Federation of Museums and Art galleries of Wales

Advocacy Promotional Tool 2013

The Federation is going to produce another calendar for 2013 as part of our Advocacy Strategy. It will, like last year, be mailed directly to key stakeholders, politicians, senior managers in national and local government in Wales, trustees and the press. We would like photographs of items in your collection which have a link to an event in 1913. If you look below we have done a small amount of research and found some 1913 events. The list is certainly not exhaustive, so if you have any relevant material, please get in touch. Your contact for the project is Chris Delaney, who again will be putting this project together on behalf of the Federation, so please e mail Chris your photographs.

Many Thanks

Rachael Rogers

President

The Concept

What is significant about 1913 for Wales and its people and how is this reflected in museum collections? A century later through our museum collections we can commemorate events and people. The calendar will be about people’s stories through museum objects. We have picked a year and we will show how collections preserve the events, stories and memories of that year. 100 years is a significant time period, hence 1913 as our year to commemorate.

Policy Fit

How does this relate to Federation’s three messages, the statements and the Museum Strategy? The intention is that it will fit into the Federation’s messages, the key message being that:

Collections in museums help communities to regenerate and forge their identity

This is supported by the statements that:

Museumscollect and preserve the community’s heritage

Museums make an important contribution to local identity, a sense of place and belonging

This fits in with the statement in the Museum Strategy:

Museums - A Collection for the Nation – Museums will hold, care for and continue to develop collections for the nation which represent our rich and diverse culture

This is a very, very rough mock up of a page

Museums –A Collection for the Nation

William Jones died a pauper in 1913. His VC, won at Rorkes Drift, is in the SWB Museum Brecon.

Events & People – Wales 1913

Tornado hits south-Wales killing 4 people

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
  • Princess of Wales - vacant
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

Events

  • 14 June - Three years after leaving Cardiff on her fateful voyage to the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Terra Nova returns to the port, commanded by Scott's former comrade Teddy Evans.
  • 14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in British mining history. 1913 is the peak year for coal production in Wales.
  • 27 October - A tornado hits South Wales, killing four people.[1]
  • Diplomat William Henry Hoare Vincent is knighted.
  • Carmarthen Farm Institute is founded - the first of its kind.
  • Monmouthshire Training College is founded at Caerleon, with Sir Edward Anwyl as its first principal.

Arts and literature

Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Abergavenny
  • Chair - Thomas Jacob Thomas
  • Crown - William Evans (Wil Ifan)

New books

  • W. H. Davies - Foliage[2]
  • Frances Hoggan - American Negro Women During Their First Fifty Years of Freedom
  • Thomas Gwynn Jones - Cofiant Thomas Gee
  • Sir John Morris-Jones - Welsh Grammar: Historical and Comparative
  • Moelona - Teulu Bach Nantoer
  • Edward Thomas - The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans

Film

  • Ivanhoe is filmed at Chepstow Castle.

Sport

  • Boxing
  • 2 June - Bill Beynon wins the British and Empire bantamweight championship.
  • Rugby Union
  • 18 January - Wales are defeated 12–0 by England in a game played at the National Stadium, Cardiff

Births

  • 13 March – Tessie O'Shea, entertainer and actress (d. 1995)
  • 29 March - R. S. Thomas, poet (d. 2000)
  • 8 May - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player (d. 1991)
  • 27 May - Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (d. 1995)
  • 5 June - Moelwyn Merchant, poet and novelist (d. 1997)
  • 6 July - Gwyn Thomas, author (d. 1981)
  • 23 July - Michael Foot, politician, MP for Ebbw Vale 1960-1992 (d. 2010)
  • 18 December - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player (d. 1978)

Deaths

  • 4 February - Tom Williams, Wales international rugby player and sports administrator
  • 8 February - James Webb, Wales rugby international, 50
  • 16 February (in Australia) - Lewis Thomas, colliery proprietor and politician
  • 11 March - Charles Morgan, Viscount Tredegar, 81
  • 19 March - John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia), harpist, 87
  • 30 March - Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, 60
  • 3 April (in London) - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, politician, 87
  • 15 April - William Jones, Victoria Cross recipient
  • 4 June (in London) - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician, 78
  • 17 August - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player, 49
  • 6 November - Sir William Henry Preece, engineer, 79
  • 7 November (in Broadstone, Dorset) - Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist, 90
  • 19 December (in South Africa) - Bert Gould, Wales international rugby player, 43
  • date unknown
  • John Jones (Coch Bach y Bala), notorious criminal

  1. Date: 1913
  2. Acquired: 1940; Gift; Gwendoline Davies
  3. Accession Number: NMW A 158
  4. Collection:The Davies Sisters Collection

An exquisite draftsman and a wonderful colourist, John's attitude to modern art was ambivalent. He admired Cèzanne, Van Gogh and Gaugin, and the oil panels he exhibited at the Chenil Gallery, Chelsea, in 1910, were hated by traditionalists. Nevertheless, John declined to be included in the Second Post Impressionist Exhibition at London in 1912-13, though he was represented in the much broader New York Armory Show in 1913. Several works were also included in An Exhibition of Works by Certain Modern Artists of Welsh Birth or Extraction, organised by the National Museum of Wales in 1913-14.