"On Saturday afternoon (2-5pm) Archif Menywod Cymru/ Women's Archive of Wales holds the tenth in their series of 17 Roadshows which are funded by the Heritage Lottery.

We are asking the public to bring in items which reflect the lives led by women in Wales during the last couple of centuries, material which is endangered as more people downsize and de-clutter.

They can then discuss the historical significance of their material with distinguished specialists such as Deirdre Beddoe, Catrin Stevens, and Helen Palmer, the local Archivist, and decide either to deposit them within the Women's Archive collection at the appropriate record office, or have them copied, if they want to hold on to them for the time being.

The Archive is interested in photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, minutes of women's organisations, flyers, leaflets and other documents relating to the history of women in Wales.

The task of recovering women's history in Wales is urgent and pressing. Central to the reclamation of our distinctive history is the active process of tracking down, rescuing and conserving historical sources which throw light on women's lives and their experiences in a range of spheres, including the domestic, political, religious, economic, cultural and social. We cannot reconstruct our past without authentic historical sources.

The Ceredigion Local History Forum shares the same venue for one of their two annual conferences, during which scholars in the field of women's studies, Noragh Jones and Rosemary Jones, discuss the role women have played as memory keepers, and women as protestors in 19th century Wales.

While the Archive's Roadshow gives the public the opportunity to place their own stories in the patchwork of women's history, the Forum will hold workshops to discuss that context in more detail.

There is even more fare on the Sunday morning during the Women's Archive of Wales' annual conference, when Dr Gwenno Ffrancon talks on : 'Rachel Thomas, Siân Phillips and the on-screen Embodiment of the Welsh Mam', and Michael Freeman, Curator of the Ceredigion Museum, who has recently been working on the significance of the images of women in traditional Welsh costume, discusses whether they were icons or working women.

To cap it all, there is also a talk by Dr Russell Davies on 'Saints, Sinners and Sirens: some aspects of the history of women in Wales, 1872-1948.' I'm sure most women will fit into one, or perhaps all, of those categories!

It is the history of ordinary women, as well as the extraordinary, that the Archive is working to preserve; so come to the Roadshow, bring along what you've found in your attics and shoe boxes that you think significant, and join us for a great day out at Morlan!"