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;