1953 in Wales - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • Dorothy Squires marries Roger Moore.
  • Thomas Parry (later Sir Thomas) becomes head of the National Library of Wales.
  • Waldo Williams leaves the Baptist denomination and becomes a Quaker.
  • Robert Frank photographs a Glamorgan mining village for U.S.Camera.
  • Susan Williams-Ellis joins her father, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, in his work on the village of Portmeirion.

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