BBC News
By Sarah Easedale
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image captionCaitlin Drake is one of the actors in the series of short films made as part of a project to encourage people to explore local archives
Stories of Welsh women from the past 300 years which were uncovered in archives have been turned into short films.
North East Wales Archives worked with Theatr Clwyd to create monologues which tell tales of the women.
Archivist Sarah Roberts hoped the films showed what can lie in the archives and highlight stories of ordinary women.
They are part of Women Rediscovered, a project designed to encourage people to explore local records offices.
INSPIRING female stories from the archives have leapt from paper to screen as part of a grant funded project with Theatr Clwyd. North East Wales Archives, which covers both Denbighshire and Flintshire archives, has been awarded a Welsh Government grant to work alongside Theatr Clwyd to create monologue style films which will re-tell rousing stories of strong and inspirational women during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The stories are based around real women discovered in the archive collections held at Ruthin and Hawarden.
The spotlight will be on four lives including:
• A headmistress who devoted herself to education;
• A widow of miner killed in the Gresford colliery disaster;