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The National Library of Wales has unveiled online copies of Cymro (Welshman) magazine, created by prisoner in the wooden huts of the notorious POW camp Stalag IVb in Germany during the Second World War.

Byline: ANI London, Jan 11 (ANI): Researchers delving into the archives of National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth have discovered a copy of the Magna Carta in a nearby underground chamber, along with other valuable items, which were stored during the Second World War.

A PORTRAIT of Ryan Giggs has just been bought by the National Library of Wales - 10 years after the Cardiff-born footballer sat for it.

We must have had a pretty wet ambassador in Paris when President Chirac paid a state visit because Jones recalled receiving a call from him in which he expressed concern that when Chirac addressed MPs and peers in the Queen's Gallery he would be confronted by two very large and, in the circumstances, sensitive paintings: one of Nelson dying on the quarterdeck of Victory, the other of Wellington meeting Marshal Bl 'The Lloyd George Papers' drew on letters and documents held at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth and Fishlock acknowledged that not everyone regards the former Liberal prime minister as the towering political figure his admirers would claim.

Largest reference libraries in UK (number of books)1 British Library, London 15,000,000 2 National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 7,000,000 3 Bodleian Library, Oxford 6,675,000 4 University Library, Cambridge 6,530,000 5 National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 5,000,000 6 British Library of Political & Economic Science, London School of Economics 4,000,000 7 John Rylands University Library, Manchester 3,500,000 8 University of Edinburgh Library 2,739,000 9 University of Leeds Library 2,500,000 10 University of Birmingham Library 2,100,000

The former landscape gardener spent six months targeting the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth before officials found 105 prints missing.

Solutions to the map theft problem were recently hashed out at a seminar held at the National Library of Wales.

The new National Library of Wales opened its doors for the first time on New Year's Day 1909 in a temporary home while a majestic neo-classical building of Cornish granite and Portland stone was erected in stages on a spectacular site overlooking Aberystwyth.