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Jones, dim Saunders ...

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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...

"Though, Jan Morris adds later, she may be mistaken in her interpretation: 'those professors are probably company accountants really; the novelist is preparing a computer program and the sages are not contemplating Time, but waiting for the football on TV.’" gwallter.com/travel/heave...

'Someone counted the number of dashes in Tristram Shandy and reckoned there were 9,560 of them, an average of one dash every three lines.' gwallter.com/literature/i...

Pan oedd y gymdeithas ar-lein yn freuddwyd o hyd yn ein llyfrgelloedd … gwallter.com/libraries/ha...

'Swollen by the rains, Afon Glaslyn is brown, fast and angry. At Nantgwynant the mountains are streaked with broad silver torrents of water, Afon Nant Peris has burst its banks, and the road down Llanberis Pass is awash.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

'We ponder whether one of us should write the definitive monograph on the pedestrian gates of Eryri, to be published in an extravagant, full-colour edition by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

'Further below, we pass a large quarried-out hole full of dark water, complete with signs warning passers-by not to approach it.' Llun: hen chwarel, Y Fron. gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

Wittgenstein in Swansea: come and listen to Dr Alan Sandry talk about the greatest 20th century philosopher and his connection to Swansea: RISW event on Thursday 11 September at 6:30pm in Swansea Museum. All welcome.

'Today the Revival is a distant dream, the quarrymen are asleep, and Sardis long closed.' Dinorwig, Gwynedd, yn y glaw.
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‘My favourite among these is Thomas Patch’s self-portrait as an ox, with its Latin inscription, ‘the person who humbles himself will be exalted’.’ gwallter.com/art/the-arti...

'The franchising change, however successful it is, will barely scratch the surface of the problems that arise from the fact that transport is so badly skewed in favour of the private car and against other means of getting around.' gwallter.com/travel/on-th...
‪@ianwalker.bsky.social‬ #bus

An improbable Victorian murder: 'Black Hopkin', the gold watch and savage Eryri . gwallter.com/books/george...

Cofio Brinley. gwallter.com/libraries/by...

Trist iawn clywed am farwolaeth Dr R. Brinley Jones, cymwynaswr mawr y genedl, un o'r bobl garedicaf yng Nghymru, a chyfaill arbennig.