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Sara E. Fox @sarafoxwales.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Near Carreg Cennen in 1815 'Surrounded by wood, this sheltered cot, with its window deeply seated in the wall, and chimney peeping through the thatch, excites notions of retirement, peace, and comfort being possessed by its humble inhabitants.'

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Sara E. Fox @sarafoxwales.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Yr Hen Du / The Old House in Usk a jettied and halftimbered house built before 1550.

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Delighted that ISWE is going to be represented again, at the 23rd Annual Historic Houses Conference in Maynooth, by our wonderful Dr Meinir Moncrieffe, who is speaking on: Country house confinements: the forgotten histories of a female gentry underclass

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Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru @gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Ar gael cyn hir fel cyfrol Mynediad Agored! Mae 'Thomas Pennant: Cysylltiadau Cymreig' gan @ffionmjones.bsky.social o'r @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social yn cyflwyno’r astudiaeth lawn gyntaf o'r naturiaethwr a'r teithiwr o sir y Fflint, ar gyfer cynulleidfa Gymraeg ei hiaith. 📚 bit.ly/4dooayD

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Dr Shaun Evans, Director of the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates (ISWE), discussing Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Alyn Giles Jones (1928-2000) Bangor University's first full-time archivist. "For him the safety of the documents in his care was paramount and he was prepared to stand up to the most senior academic colleagues in their defence". Professor A.D. Carr.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

'what we’re seeing now is not a neutral rebalancing of the books. It feels like a dismantling of the humanities, a retreat from the very fields of knowledge that hold the keys to our collective future.'

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Our future may depend on the humanities

For Peter Sutoris, the humanities hold the key to understanding and responding to the many civilisational crises we face

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We’ve had a wonderful couple of days at Gregynog with the ISWE doctoral & doctoral graduate community. Based right across Wales, and beyond, it’s always brilliant to bring this group together to share knowledge, expertise and experiences. Bangor Fund supported

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"Map of Rhos [Denbighshire] as it was 60 years ago, with the houses and common names of the inhabitants" by John Platt 1895 BMSS/40221 A charming map depicting Rhosllannerchrugog as it was in 1835, listing the names of the inhabitants of each house and the name of every business premises.

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A lovely morning at Canolfan Cefnfaes, Bethesda, discussing local history, archives, landscape, placenames, farming and the future. Funded by a Bangor University Community Engagement award.

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Cambrian Archaeological Association @cambriansarch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

CAA Eisteddfod Lecture 16.30 Wednesday 6th August, 2025 (by Ann Parry Owen). Join us for our annual Welsh-language lecture on the Maes at Wrexham on the fascinating word-lists created in 1632͏-3 by the manuscript copier John Jones of Gellilyfdy, Flintshire.

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Lizzy W @llwoowoo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

@northwaleslive.bsky.social Bangor University Archives under threat due to newly proposed cuts by the University. This would be devastating for the study of Welsh heritage and history, as well as broader global studies.

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Sara E. Fox @sarafoxwales.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Bangor University Archives hold some of Wales' most important cultural treasures, please consider signing. chng.it/yz9x2pdkww

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

'Estuary Window, Spring,' (1982) What John Wonnacott is very good at and best known for, is his Panavision landscape view of Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. Questioned about why he kept a low profile as a painter, he answered 'painting is easier when you’re anonymous.'

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Abzeronow says Black Lives Matter and Trans Rights @abzeronow.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

48. (1 day late) Welsh writer Berta Ruck (1878-1978) had a 1929 novel titled The Unkissed Bride. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_R...

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Enchantra Sand📚🌻 @enchantrasand.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Allen Raine, the pen name of Anne Adaliza Puddicombe, was one of the best-selling authors of the late Victorian/early Edwardian age. Wales features largely in her romantic fiction, with titles like A Welsh Singer (1896) and A Welsh Witch (1902). #BookSky #BookWormSat 💙📚 #WomenWriting #Wales

A Welsh Witch: A Romance of Rough Places by

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

DARLITH FLYNYDDOL | ANNUAL LECTURE 2025 Dr Melvin Humphreys POWIS CASTLE: THE RESILIENCE OF AN ARISTOCRATIC ESTATE IN WALES - INHERITANCE, ENCLOSURE & MINING FOR LEAD 5.30pm, Dydd Mercher, 2 Ebrill | Wednesday, 2 April MALT, Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University Croeso i Bawb | All Welcome

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#DyddLlunyMap #MapMonday “Plan of part of Penrallt Estate. The property of James Wyatt Esq divided into lots for building neat villas and other proposed improvements by R. Williams, Frondeg.” 1841 PFA/6/167

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I must admit that - up until now - I hadn't given much thought to the homes of Sir Gruffudd Llwyd, principal lieutenant/de facto ruler of much of North Wales in the first decades of the 14th century. For modern takes on post-Conquest Gwynedd, men like Sir Gruffudd are a bit of a problem [cont.]

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A wonderful day in the library at Hartsheath #Flintshire researching a fantastic collection of Welsh books. A very appropriate way to spend World Books Day! With huge thanks to @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This year’s @cambriansarch.bsky.social Summer Meeting, organised by our good friends Jo & Andrew Davidson, looks immense! Very pleased to be part of it!

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

One of the commemorative mugs presented to the schoolchildren of Corwen as part of the public celebrations accompanying the coming of age of C. H. Wynn of Rhug in 1868. An orange was placed in each mug. Quite a treat!

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A brilliant workshop at @archpbu.bsky.social this afternoon with wonderful students on the ‘Wales and Europe in the Renaissance’ module, looking at mss & records relating to Welsh gentry culture & inspiring some really fascinating insights & conversations. @bangorhistory.bsky.social

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Pacoulmag @pacoulmag.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

#Effigy of a lady in Elizabethan costume, very sophisticated, with her baby close to her right shoulder, Llantwit Major, St Illtud, Vale of Glamorgan, #Wales #SundayStonework

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Peter Foden @ysgrifnlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

@ystadaucymru.bsky.social Really enjoyed ISWE day conference about house histories at Penpont recently. Stories from all over Wales, different periods, but many common themes…

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Jussi @finnfolklorist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Rhys Lewis is a novel by Daniel Owen, written in the Welsh language and published in 1885. Its full title is Hunangofiant Rhys Lewis, Gweinidog Bethel ("The autobiography of Rhys Lewis, minister of Bethel").It is agreed to be the first significant novel written in the Welsh language #BookWormSat 🧵

Rhys Lewis By Daniel Owen

On the cover there is a man with a cane standing in the front of a house surrounded with a brick wall, trees and mountains in the background.

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Today my mother @joyfoster.bsky.social made me actually sob with pride Her "Deeds Not Words" embroidery features in 'threads' installation at Found Gallery, Brecon threads brings women's stories into the light, communicating the urgent need to address violence against women and girls #feminist

Embroidery patch featuring the words "Deeds not words" and a woman in Welsh costume.

The Community Shawl on display in the Found Gallery.

The Community Shawl and a gallery brochure explaining the history of The Red Dress and The Community Shawl.

A sign for the threads installation at the Found Gallery, Brecon.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Cardiff University confirms that in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 699 jobs are “in scope” of redundancy with 86 in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion. At the leading Welsh university in the capital of (checks notes) Wales 13 are in the (checks notes) School of Welsh.

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Cardiff University releases breakdown of academics 'in scope' for redundancy

Martin Shipton Cardiff University has released to Nation.Cymru the breakdown by School of the 1,807 academics who have been told their jobs are “in scope” to be cut. The university announced in Januar...

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Sara E. Fox @sarafoxwales.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Derwydd, the home of (amongst other treasures) the virescent Double Dwarf Daffodil of Derwydd, the greenest of the green Daffodils. which has grown prolifically there apparently since the 17th century. #welshdaffodils #narcissus #gardenhistorysociety #welshgentryhouses

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Stop worrying about bats and newts? No Rachel Reeves MP – start worrying about the future of our economy if we tear down the nature it depends on. Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.

Screenshot of a BBC Politics tweet shows Chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking at a podium during a live broadcast of her speech. The quote at the top reads, “We are reducing the environmental requirements placed on developers when they pay into a nature restoration fund… they can focus on getting things built and stop worrying about the bats and the newts,” as she addresses the audience. In the background, there are large screens displaying the live stream of the speech, with a banner at the bottom reading “Kickstarting Economic Growth.”

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Free Museum Studies Spring School (online): registration for the day (you can dip in and out of sessions) on the poster below. A forum for discussion rather than long speaker presentations.

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Sarah Murden @sarahmurden.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

New on All Things Georgian, 'The Phillipps Family of Vauxhall and its contribution to late Georgian horticulture. Part 2' - wp.me/p3JTNy-727 #mondayblogs

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Blog post! Delving into the history of asylum patient art. A manuscript volume titled ‘Bruised Reeds’ contains illustrations from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and is named after a Bible passage: ‘a bruised reed he will not break, and a smouldering wick he will not quench’ rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/bru...

A coloured sketch of a seated man wearing a red cap and suit jacket and holding a cup in both hands. Text on the image reads ‘Blog post – the Bruised Reeds of Psychiatric Patient Art’’

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This Holocaust memorial day, and every day, remember that you can't rely on the state to protect you. That apologies after genocide are meaningless without actual commitment to human rights.

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In Case You Missed It: 📢 TUDOR WILLS NOW ON ZOONIVERSE! 📢 A new milestone for our @zooniverse.bsky.social site - we've uploaded new wills 📃dating 1538-1552. Practice your sixteenth-century palaeography✍️ & read wills made during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward ⏳ #skystorians #history

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you’re unable to contemplate Monday without a video of a singing woodpigeon, then boy do I have a treat for you. Have an excellent day. youtu.be/NCd-RyQZJrs?...

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Close up of wood pigeon cooing 23.04.19

YouTube video by angnatur

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

80 years ago Auschwitz was liberated. More than one million children, women and men were murdered there as part of the Holocaust. A dark lesson of history; humanity owes it to each of the victims to ensure it will never happen again. #HolocaustMemorialDay

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I have long predicted that as a result of Brexit we would lose the protections for European protected habitats/species provided by a number of EU Directives, and the case law that has built up around them over the past nearly 50 years. What I hadn't expected was that Labour would be the executioner.

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

All hail the power of archivists.

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Naomi Pullin @naomipullin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

On 4 Feb along with @sarahknott.bsky.social, Anna Jamieson and Karen Harvey, I will be participating in a panel: #Feminist Histories: Care, Loneliness and Embodiment' hosted by BRIHC and Birmingham C18 Centre. Excited for this. Added bonus that it will be hybrid www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

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Feminist histories: care, loneliness and embodiment

Panel Discussion with Dr Anna Jamieson, Professor Sarah Knott, Dr Naomi Pullin and Professor Karen Harvey.

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Sara E. Fox @sarafoxwales.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Atmospheric Trevaughan Bridge Whitland. Said to have been built mid 18thc (a worn datestone apparently recorded this as 1767). Vandalised by Carmarthenshire County Council who demolished one end in an attempt to stop flooding in 1981. However the Taf still floods here as recent photos show.

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