Welsh Journals

CONTRIBUTORS TO MINERVA XIII Bernice Cardy took a degree in Classical Art & Archaeology as a mature student and has since excavated sites from the Neolithic to 19th century industrial, in Cyprus, Canada as well as Wales. She joined Swansea Museum staff in 1996 after four years as Archaeologist for the former Lliw Valley Borough Council. Andrew Dulley is a Principal Archivist at the West Glamorgan Archive Service, where he has worked since 1995. He is the project manager for the RISW archives cataloguing project. He was also involved with a similar project to list the Neath Antiquarian Society archive collections. Helen Hallesy is an enthusiastic collector and antique dealer, specialising in Welsh ceramics. She is the author of The Glamorgan Pottery, Swansea, and has published a number of articles and papers on Swansea pottery and more recently Ynysmeudwy pottery. She is ceramics advisor to Swansea Museum Service and, as a private researcher, continues the investigation of unrecorded ceramic material. Brian V. M. Jenkins spent his working life in the eponymous family business founded by his great grandfather Morgan Jenkins. Since a teenager, he has participated in motor sports from rallying to club racing. He has written articles on competition cars and on his experiences for various publications. He has recently researched the history and local origins of the successful Kieft racing cars of the 1950s for three forthcoming books. Elaine Kidwell grew up in central Swansea when it was still a close-knit community. She worked in Swansea Museum from 1938 to 1943, when she joined the Land Army. In 1940 she joined the Civil Defence, and was the youngest female Air Raid Warden in Britain. A life-long association with the Girl Guide movement culminated in her appointment as Guide Commissioner. Elaine now talks to school groups about her wartime experiences. William Linnard was an Assistant Keeper at the Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans. He is now retired. His books include Welsh Woods and Forests: a History (2000) and Wales: Clocks and Clockmakers (2003). He is currently Chair of the Wales and Marches Horological Society. Katie Millien is a native of Swansea. She was an archive trainee at the West Glamorgan Archive Service and, having completed a Masters in Archive Administration in Aber- ystwyth, she is currently the project archivist cataloguing the RISW archives. Richard Morris luckily married a relation of the Dillwyn Llewelyn family, which led to his interest in their family history, especially John Dillwyn Llewelyn the photographer. He is currently transcribing the diaries of Lewis Weston Dillwyn and Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn. He is a Director of the Penllergare Trust. Raymond Walker has been interested in natural history and a collector of specimens since a boy, so that his family called him 'jam-jar'. As a museum volunteer since 1998, he relishes the task of sorting and cataloguing the natural history collections in Swansea Museum. The result of this work has been four articles for Minerva, based on the museum collections.