Swansea Literary and Philosophical Society

The Royal Institution of South Wales is a Welsh learned society founded in Swansea in 1835 as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society with objectives:

In 1838, the Society received its Royal charter as the Royal Institution.

It publishes a journal known as Minerva until 2006 and has now been renamed The Swansea History Journal (thus avoiding confusion with an arts magazine called Minerva).

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