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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Dr Shaun Evans of the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates at Bangor University has been awarded the 2026 Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize by the British Agricultural History Society for the Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/is...

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Huge congratulations to our ISWE Research & Engagement Officer, Dr Bethan Scorey, for having her research on Margam Castle published in the latest issue of the History Extra magazine. @bethanscorey.bsky.social

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

ISWE ANNUAL LECTURE 2026 Dr Marion Löffler LADY LLANOVER & THE REINVENTION OF WALES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 6pm, 5th May 2026 MALT, Main Arts Building, Bangor University, LL57 2DG / Online via Teams

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Map of parts of Flintshire and Cheshire showing the Sands of Dee Mostyn/7292 dim dyddiad / no date

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British Agricultural History Society @braghs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

@bsky.app The winners of the Joan Thirsk Prize (2026) are: Mark Bailey, 'Serfdom in England: Theory and Practice 1200 to 1500' @manchesterup.bsky.social Shaun Evans, 'Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates: Gentry, Culture and Society, c.1770–1920' @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social .

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Carol Tully as the new Chair of its Advisory Board: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ne...

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The Donne Triptych, a triptych altarpiece by Hans Memling now in the National Gallery, London. It contains portraits of Sir John Dwnn [Donne] of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire d. 1503, his wife Elizabeth and a daughter.

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Gift in perpetual fee farm of two roods of turbary lying within the liberties of the town of Hardelaghe [Harlech] in a place called Y gorse. Seal pendant; red wax; fine imprint. Dyddiad/Date: 1577 MOSTYN/3531

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Yn gynharach y mis hwn, cafodd grŵp o ymchwilwyr doethurol a ffrindiau Sefydliad Ymchwil Ystadau Cymru'r pleser o ymweld â Phlas Cochwillan yng Ngwynedd. Yn y blog hwn, mae'r Ymchwilydd Doethurol Anna Reynolds yn dweud wrthym am brynhawn llawn hwyl a hanes! www.bangor.ac.uk/cy/iswe/newy...

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Earlier this month, a group of ISWE doctoral researchers and friends had the pleasure of visiting Plas Cochwillan in the community of Tal-y-Bont, Gwynedd. In our latest blog post, Doctoral Researcher Anna Reynolds tells us all about the fascinating afternoon! www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/co...

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

How did I not spot that before? It’s obvious now you come to mention it! 😉

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A characteristically excellent ISWE lecture by @mariangwyn.bsky.social at Bangor University this evening: Textiles as Exploitation on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations. A huge thanks to everyone who joined us in person and online.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Long day of teaching that finished at 6, but the bonus was going immediately to this fantastic talk hosted by @ystadaucymru.bsky.social from the fabulous Marian Gwyn on ‘TEXTILES AS EXPLOITATION: Clothing, commerce and control on the Penrhyn Jamaica plantations’.

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Yfory (Dydd Mawrth) / Tomorrow (Tuesday) Dr Marian Gwyn: Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations Am ddim i fynychu neu ymunwch ar-lein. Free to attend or join online.

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

With the film Madfabulous about the life of Henry Cyril Paget, the fifth Marquess of Anglesey scheduled to premiere in the coming months, here we have a letter from the Chief Constable of Menai Bridge sent to the Marquess’ agent on account of the Marquess speeding through the village of Gaerwen.

THE MARQUESS THAT WAS CAUGHT SPEEDING THROUGH THE VILLAGE OF GAERWEN
Henry Paget, the 5th Marquess of Anglesey (1875-1905) is well known for his extravagant lifestyle. He converted the chapel at Plas Newydd into a theatre and spent his fortune on flamboyant costumes, jewellery, furs and on staging theatrical performances in his home on Anglesey.
On the 30th of November 1901, L. Prothero, Chief Constable of Menai Bridge wrote to the Agent for the Marquess stating :
I have received a report from the Constable at Gaerwen that the Marquis of Anglesey’s motor was travelling at a ‘tremendous speed’ about 30 miles an hour, through the village of Gaerwen, at 11.35 am on Sunday last….
I do not wish that proceedings be taken, as it may have been done unthinkingly, as few persons travel on Sunday, but travelling so fast through a village is always dangerous to children who may run suddenly across the road.
This image shows the Marquess with his chauffeur and possibly the car that was caught speeding through the village of Gaerwen!

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

A pleasure to visit Cochwillan - hall and mill - earlier today with ISWE

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Delighted to see this blog by our friend Peter Foden (ysgrifnlaw.bsky.social) on the lordships of Tregrug and Edlogan, shared as part of the wonderful @mappingthemarch.bsky.social research project. Including a 1705 perambulation @gwentarchives.bsky.social blog.mowlit.ac.uk/2025/11/20/m...

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Mapping the March case study: Tregrug and Edlogan – Mapping the March: Medieval Wales and England, c.1282-1550

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Seminar Ymchwil / Research Seminar @mariangwyn.bsky.social ‘Textiles as Exploitation’ 10/2/2026 Croeso i bawb / All welcome www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

New blog by our MA student Issy Marston on Lady Margaret Verney née Hay-Williams (1844-1930), researched as part of our ‘Reinterpreting the Country House’ module @bangorhistory.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/la...

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Lady Margaret Verney | Bangor University

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

‘Historically, architecturally and scenically, Nannau really matters’: Thomas Lloyd Nannau in The Georgian Group’s top 10 heritage buildings at risk list Read more here: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/na...

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The National Farm Survey documents are held by The National Archives. The forms and maps are being digitised and will be made available online for free, with the first records due to appear in March this year. The project should be complete by March 2027. #OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory

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300,000 farm records going online, thanks to grant from Lund Trust - The National Archives

The National Archives is digitising 300,000 farm records 1941-1943 made for the National Farm Survey, thanks to a grant from the Lund Trust

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Mapping the March: Medieval Wales and England, c.1282-1550 @mappingthemarch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Some of you may be interested in BALH’s series of online talks in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust. Prof Helen Fulton will be talking about medieval Brecon on Tuesday 31 March at 7.00pm. Click here for further details and registration: www.balh.org.uk/events

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Forthcoming Local History Events | British Association For Local History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

#MementoMoriMonday 💀 Gorgeous memorial to Hannah Bowen (d.1845) and her husband William (d.1847) 🪦 📍St Mary's Church • Carew ⛪️ #Wales #History

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Only the best books from Father Christmas! Nadolig Llawen Pawb! Merry Christmas Everyone!

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

We’ve enjoyed a brilliant set of talks from our doctoral researchers at the ISWE Christmas Symposium at Bangor University today. Such an inspiring and supportive group of people! It’s always a pleasure to be in their company. @bangorhistory.bsky.social

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Congratulations - Looking forward to reading the publications on the #architecture and #landscape history of St. Fagans #AmgueddfaCymru #history #heritage #Wales

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Huge congratulations to Dr @bethanscorey.bsky.social on her graduation at Bangor University today! Bethan produced a wonderful thesis on ‘St Fagans Castle: its Architectural and Landscape History’. She is ISWE’s 6th doctoral graduate. Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Bethan - we’re all really proud of you!

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Dr John Davies @jed1848.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Join the Party against the Lousy Corporation [?of Carmarthen?] and the busy justasses. Rare survival of an anti-enclosure poster - early 19th century.

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda oddi wrth pawb yn Sefydliad Ymchwil Ystadau Cymru Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates

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Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Taken from the Account Book for Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, from 1743, it lists foods bought from 17th Dec to 31st Dec – presumably for Christmas dinner! The foods include butter, bread, shrimps, a goose, a shoulder and neck of mutton, a hare and 250 oysters!

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Thema Archwiliwch Eich Archif heddiw yw #EYAEichArchif ARCHIFAU A CHASGLIADAU ARBENNIG PRIFYSGOL BANGOR #ExploreYourArchives #exploreyourarchive

Mae 2025 wedi bod yn flwyddyn eithaf heriol i Archifau a Chasgliadau Arbennig Prifysgol Bangor. Hoffem ddiolch i chi'n bersonol am y gefnogaeth aruthrol a gawsom, am eich dealltwriaeth a'ch gwerthfawrogiad o bwysigrwydd aruthrol casgliadau archifol y Brifysgol a'u gwerth i'r gymuned leol.
Rydym nawr yn edrych tua'r dyfodol, i gydweithio â'n holl randdeiliaid er mwyn sicrhau ein bod yn parhau i gael ein cydnabod fel un o archifau Prifysgol gorau Prydain - yn casglu, yn cadw ac yn darparu mynediad at y casgliadau hanesyddol sy'n helpu i wneud Prifysgol Bangor yn sefydliad unigryw ac arbennig i bawb.

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Today’s Explore Your Archive theme is #EYAYourArchive BANGOR UNIVERSITY’S ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS #ExploreYourArchives #exploreyourarchive

2025 has been quite a challenging year for Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections. We would like to thank you personally for the overwhelming support we’ve received, for your understanding and appreciation of the immense value of the University’s archival collections and its worth to the local community.
We are now looking to the future, to working together with all our stakeholders to ensure that we continue to be recognised as one of the finest University archives in Britain - collecting, preserving and providing access to the historic collections that help make Bangor University a unique and special institution for everyone.

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Today’s Reinterpreting the Country House workshop focused on books& libraries. We considered bookplates, marginalia, subscription lists, bindings, women’s book ownership, Welsh books, gifting, inscriptions, the book trade, education, multilingualism & much more. Lots of fun! @archpbu.bsky.social

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This morning we enjoyed a brilliant supervisory meeting with ISWE doctoral researcher Hannah Jones, who talked us through the early construction of her ‘Deep Map’ of the parish of Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire. Truly inspiring! For more on Hannah’s research see: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/llanart...

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

We’re ever so grateful to our friend Dr J. Gwilym Owen for kindly gifting his library of legal history, land law and Welsh law books to ISWE, for the use of our doctoral researchers. An immensely useful resource and such a generous gift. Diolch yn fawr iawn Gwilym!

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Seminar Ymchwil | Research Seminar Peter Sandford (UHI) The Tithe War in North and South-West Wales 1886-1895 2pm, 3/12/2025 Darlithfa 5, Prif Adeilad Y Celfyddydau | Lecture Room 5, Main Arts Building Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University Croeso i Bawb | All welcome

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Huge thanks to Dr Gareth Huws for a wonderful lecture yesterday evening, using the Plas Newydd & Bodrhyddan papers at @archpbu.bsky.social to explore the operation of Irish-Welsh estates. Thanks to everyone who attended in person and online. A pleasure to co-host with @historicirishho.bsky.social

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Shaun Evans tells us about what inspired him to research the Welsh 'coming of age' celebrations that were landmark events for gentry families and local society. Read the blog > buff.ly/izSJIjH @ystadaucymru.bsky.social

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Alex Ioannou @alexjioannou.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Thrilled to have been invited to present my work with @ystadaucymru.bsky.social at this year's @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Lecture. So humbled by the amount of people that joined and with whom I was also able to chat - before and after the lecture -over some great big archive maps!

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Here we have 2 Sale Catalogues from the Great Anglesey Sale of 1904, where some 17,000 lots were sold including his ‘Important Jewellery’. Also, a sale catalogue of ‘Valuable Casket of Jewels’, the property of a ‘nobleman’ held prior to the 5th Marquess of Anglesey’s bankruptcy declaration.

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Project FisHistory @projectfishistory.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This time last week our team were midway through an interdisciplinary research visit at the National library of Wales 📖 The marine scientists came away with a newfound appreciation for the art of deciphering handwriting! @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social @emilyphilly.bsky.social

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Alex Ioannou @alexjioannou.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Brilliant to hear and learn so much in today's workshop hosted by @historicirishho.bsky.social and @heritagecouncil.ie @maynoothuniversity.ie. Also a privilege to share the work undertaken by @archpbu.bsky.social and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social with such an engaged audience!

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

For anyone who missed last week’s launch of Dr Shaun Evans’s new book on Estate Coming of Age Celebrations, please visit the ISWE website for a fantastic blog based on the proceedings, kindly authored by Dr Bethan Scorey: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...

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Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Come join us at @nhm-london.bsky.social on November 7th for a day conference on the connections between natural history collections and enlightenment travel writing. For more information, programme and registration details, follow the link! curioustravellers.ac.uk/curious-coll...

Curious Collections: Day Conference at the Natural History Museum

Curious Travellers is a collaboration between the University of Wales Trinity St David, the University of Glasgow and the Natural History Museum, London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It studies the world of C18th travel and natural history through the works of Flintshire naturalist Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), whose multi-volume British Zoology, and Tours of Wales and Scotland helped shape public understanding of the habitats, cultures and histories of the British Isles. We are
currently preparing digital editions of the Welsh and Scottish Tours and examining the valuable Pennant collections held at NHM. On Friday 7th November we are holding a day conference in the Natural History Museum exploring the connections between Pennant’s writings, the art-works he commissioned, his vast correspondence network and his specimen collections. We would like this to be a springboard for future cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional collaborations, so please join us for an invigorating day of presentations and discussions!

Places are limited so please book by 30 October: a.elias@cymru.ac.uk (01970 636543)

Short papers from the Curious Travellers research team and NHM curators, pairing specimens and archive material with
research stories drawing on Pennant’s correspondence, travel writing and commissioned art-works.

A session exploring intersections between natural science, cultural history and the digital humanities.
A chance to see specimens from the Pennant Collection with items from Library and Archives, to talk to the
team, and to see panels and creative work from the recent Curious Minds exhibition held in Selborne.
A Future Directions panel exploring strategies for research development.
Free lunch and a drinks reception (5.30pm-6.30pm).

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

LANSIAD LLYFR | BOOK LAUNCH Dr Shaun Evans Mewn sgwrs gyda | In conversation with Dr Lowri Ann Rees COMING OF AGE CELEBRATIONS ON WELSH LANDED ESTATES: GENTRY, CULTURE & SOCIETY c.1770-1920 5.30pm, 23/10/2015 Lecture Room 2 Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University Croeso i bawb | All welcome!

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Alex Ioannou @alexjioannou.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Find out about our initiative to foster community connections and conversations within Dyffryn Ogwen, building upon the foundations laid by my doctoral research project: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ne... @ystadaucymru.bsky.social, @archpbu.bsky.social, Partneriaeth Ogwen and other collaborators.

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates by Shaun Evans is the first comprehensive study of gentry coming of age celebrations, offering insights into the social & cultural dynamics of estate communities in 18th & 19th century Wales. Learn more: buff.ly/xHOSKU4 @ystadaucymru.bsky.social

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