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'2026 isn’t a bad year to think about utopian worlds, at a time when we’re faced with so many dystopian ones, factual and fictional.' gwallter.com/history/utop...

'One of the pieces, entitled ‘Ganymede’, cup-bearer of the gods, concerns Bernard’s insistence on being prescribed Ambrosia custard on the ward.' Embroidered pictures and stories on identity and mortality by Nigel Hurlstone at the Mission Gallery. gwallter.com/art/gwynt-tr...

A lovely embroidering of part of Culhwch ac Olwen! 'All I want is dry socks' rings true. Might you tackle the tale of Twrch Trwyth, the ultimate Mabinogi hero, in a sequel?

'Where this exhibition scores is in its inclusion of many sketches and other preparatory works by both artists ... these and other works bring us as close as we can get to the act of making art.' Turner & Constable @tate.bsky.social gwallter.com/art/turner-a...

Dryw (llun gan Carys Evans): rhif 1 mewn cyfres o 'Cyfarfodydd ag adar rhyfeddol': gwallter.com/cymraeg/tri-...

What have the Donro Doctrine and the 1895 Venezuela crisis have in common? gwallter.com/history/a-zo...

Cader Idris and the Artists | Landscape Art and Photography From the rolling Preseli Hills to its dramatic cliff-top coastline, Pembrokeshire both excites and enthrals with a sense of timeless beauty. And yet there is also a story to be told, one of meaning an...

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Eugénie-Paméla Larivière: a good stand-in for Fanny Price?
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What's political about fonts? gwallter.com/politics/the...

Newyddion da o Abertawe! gwallter.com/libraries/ag...

The headlong decline of the British Library, once an leading cultural institution across the world, is heartbreaking - and symptomatic of the destruction of the public sphere.

Cardiff blues, anarchic poets and bookshop 'shrinkage' gwallter.com/books/peter-...

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A hymn to the power of imagination: Philip Pullman's 'The rose field' gwallter.com/books/dust-a...

'You could easily miss the farmer in this painting, so camouflaged are his clothes and face against the dark tones of the mountain slope.' 'Kyffin in Bangor talk': gwallter.com/art/kyffin-i...

What a good read. 'Penda's Fen' made an impression on my (impressionable) young self when it was first shown (as did Rudkin's 'Cries from Casement as his Bones are brought to Dublin'). Not sure what I'd think now, but this piece make me curious. Mercia as a subterranean realm is a good theme.

Craig Cau, 19 November: one the finest days I've ever had on Cader Idris in 50 years.

Helo Cath. Mae'r Gymdeithas yn araf iawn yn ei chyhoeddusrwydd! 'Swn i'n awgrymu cysylltu gyda Heather James, un o olygyddion y gyfrol: h.james443@gmail.com.

'The Llanboidy Molecatcher', a star of a new book, 'Carmarthenhire in 100 Objects' gwallter.com/art/things-f...

"‘Ignoring the fans’ I find admirable. He’s come all this way to play and sing for us, what more do we want?" Bob Dylan in Swansea. gwallter.com/music/bob-dy...

Want to know what's really going on in the BBC? Come & hear Prof. Elan Closs Stephens, late of the BBC Board, in an RISW talk & discussion in Swansea Museum, Thursday 13 November, 6:30pm. All welcome.

Aberystwyth: prifddinas llên - a mwy? gwallter.com/books/aber-p...

Well done, Aberystwyth, new UNESCO city of literature. More poets per hectare than in any other town.

Yes! gwallter.com/politics/mon...

'As Walter Bagehot well understood, monarchy continues to exist in order to infantalise the majority of the population.' Thoughts on the Irish presidential election and Andrew Windsor. gwallter.com/politics/mon...

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).

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!

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Drawn into Landscape – Symposium 🌿

The School of Art invites you to Drawn into Landscape, a symposium in conjunction with Robert Newell’s exhibition Echoes Among the Rocks.

🕑 Wednesday 29 October, 14:00 - 17:00
📍 School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr

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Has Jesus College Cambridge improved since Coleridge went there in 1791? 'Jesus was an unwelcoming home, ‘the very palace of winds’. His rooms near the Porter’s Lodge were cold and clammy. He caught ’flu, which he treated with opium, and suffered from his bad teeth.' gwallter.com/literature/t...