Message from the Senior University Archivist, Elen Simpson, relating to the recent Financial Sustainability Consultation | Bangor University
Great news. Following the recent consultation at Bangor University the Archives & Special Collections team has been maintained with a small reduction in staffing hours agreed. Further details below. Thank you all for your overwhelming support over the last few months
www.bangor.ac.uk/archives-and...
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Neges gan Uwch Archifydd y Brifysgol, Elen Simpson, ynglŷn â'r Ymgynghoriad Cynaliadwyedd Ariannol diweddar | Bangor University
Newyddion gwych. Yn dilyn arbedion wedi'u haddasu mae'r tîm Archifau a Chasgliadau Arbennig wedi'i gadw gyda gostyngiad bach yn yr oriau staffio wedi'i gytuno. Am ragor o wybodaeth cliciwch y ddolen. Diolch i chi gyd am eich cefnogaeth diflino yn ystod y misoedd olaf
www.bangor.ac.uk/cy/archifau-...
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I’ch dyddiadur!
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#otd in 1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, the famous poet was born. This is a letter from John Bedwell to the lawyer John Evans in 1812, referring to the poet's imprisonment in Caernarfon for his debts.
Bangor/1110
04.08.2025 07:58 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
4 Awst - #AYDH ym 1792 ganwyd y bardd enwog Percy Bysshe Shelley. Dyma lythyr oddi wrth John Bedwell at y cyfreithiwr John Evans o Gaernarfon yn cyfeirio at garchariad y bardd yng Nghaernarfon, oherwydd ei ddyledion ym 1812.
Bangor/1110
04.08.2025 07:57 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
200th Anniversary of the Menai Suspension Bridge
Raising funds for our museum & building to improve access, displays & facilities during the 200th anniversary of the Menai Suspension Bridge
The Menai Suspension Bridge will celebrate its bicentenary in 2026. To help with celebrations, please consider supporting the #TelfordCentre, a small museum in Menai Bridge promoting the bridge's unique story @archpbu.bsky.social @bangorhistory.bsky.social: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/200th-anni...
09.07.2025 09:17 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
I’m in The Times today defending Universities against bad faith narratives:
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/are-uk...
03.07.2025 07:32 — 👍 84 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 0
Huge congratulations to ISWE’s @bethanscorey.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD thesis earlier today! Bethan’s thesis is a wonderfully expansive architectural history of St Fagans Castle, examined by Dr Ruth Larsen (Derby) & Dr Euryn Roberts (Bangor).
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!
26.06.2025 13:40 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Welcome to the archives.
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Ymunwch â’n cwrs hanner diwrnod cyfrwng Cymraeg ar hanes cenedlaetholdeb wleidyddol yng Nghymru 21/06. Rhad ac am ddim: cofrestrwch yma www.bangor.ac.uk/cy/cyrsiau-b... / Half day course in Welsh on political nationalism in Wales on 21/06. Free, just reg here: www.bangor.ac.uk/short-course...
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Sign the Petition
SAVE YOUR ARCHIVE / ACHUBWCH EICH ARCHIFDY
Please consider signing this petition to retain Bangor University Archives and Special Collections as an essential part of the cultural and intellectual life of Wales:
www.change.org/p/save-your-...
@archpbu.bsky.social
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Papur olaf y diwrnod gan Dr Mari Wiliam @marillansannan.bsky.social reflecting on her experiences of teaching Welsh queer history #HanesCymru #WelshHistory @royalhistsoc.org @bangorhistory.bsky.social
09.05.2025 21:50 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dr @marccollinson.bsky.social shared insights into @bangorhistory.bsky.social short courses and community engagement. Gwaith y tîm #HanesCymru yn datblygu cyrsiau cymunedol #WelshHistory @royalhistsoc.org
09.05.2025 21:35 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Dr Marion Loeffler standing in front of PowerPoint presentation
Dr Marion Löffler sy'n dechrau papurau'r pnawn, discussing diverse Welsh histories and free-standing modules #HanesCymru #WelshHistory @royalhistsoc.org @bangorhistory.bsky.social
09.05.2025 17:46 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Speaker standing in front of PowerPoint presentation
AI ac adnoddau dysgu. Dr Euryn Roberts and his students, Geneva Henson and Fraser Williams, discussing opportunities and challenges of using AI to help create teaching resources #HanesCymru #WelshHistory @royalhistsoc.org @bangorhistory.bsky.social
09.05.2025 16:38 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Workshop programme with paper title 'Teaching strange things abour modern Wales' Dr Mike Benbough-Jackson
Teitl gwych! Teaching strange things about modern Wales with Dr Mike Benbough-Jackson #HanesCymru #WelshHistory @royalhistsoc.org @bangorhistory.bsky.social
09.05.2025 16:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@royalhistsoc.org @bangorhistory.bsky.social
09.05.2025 10:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PowerPoint slide with text Collections-based Learning: Possibilities, Problems and the Penrhyn Estate Archive, Dr Shaun Evans, Bangor University, Innovative Approaches to Teaching Welsh History 9 May 2025
Nesaf i siarad oedd Dr Shaun Evans @ystadaucymru.bsky.social yn trafod pwysigrwydd cyflwyno ein myfyrwyr i'r Archifdy. Next to speak was Dr Shaun Evans who emphasised the importance of introducing our students to the Archive #HanesCymru #WelshHistory @royalhistsoc.org @bangorhistory.bsky.social
09.05.2025 10:34 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Ein siaradwr cyntaf Dr Gethin Matthews @ww1cymru-wales.bsky.social yn trafod ei brofiadau o ddysgu #HanesCymru ac ymerrodraeth trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg. Our first speaker Dr Gethin Matthews shared his experiences of teaching #WelshHistory and imperialism through the medium of Welsh
09.05.2025 10:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Good luck to all attending today's 'Teaching Welsh History' workshop organised by @lowriannrees.bsky.social, one of the Society's 2024-25 Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellows #Skystorians
09.05.2025 08:20 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Poster on door advertising Teaching Welsh History workshop
Edrych ymlaen! Looking forward to our workshop on Teaching Welsh History. Many thanks to @royalhistsoc.org for funding today's workshop and @prifysgolbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social for providing our event with a home #HanesCymru #WelshHistory @bangorhistory.bsky.social
09.05.2025 08:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Looking forward to speaking on our community courses project at the @royalhistsoc.org supported 'Innovative Approaches in Teaching
Welsh History' Workshop at @bangorhistory.bsky.social tomorrow, organised by RHS Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellow @lowriannrees.bsky.social .
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A South Wales Record Society book
'The middleman at Middleton Hall: The Letters of Thomas Herbert Cooke, land agent in Rebecca's Carmarthenshire, 1841-1847,' edited by Lowri Ann Rees
Running a bit late for #ArchiveAction #Archive30 - we were set up after a lot of steering meetings in 1982, latest action is broadening our scope from Glamorgan and Monmouthshire: last year's volume on Middleton Hall www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/36.htm, next year Ceredigion and Hafod
23.04.2025 07:43 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Eisteddfod banner showing medieval figures with text 'Innovative approaches to Welsh History'. Image: Wiki Commons – Eisteddfod Aberteifi 1176 (1930), public domain
'Innovative Approaches to Teaching Welsh History' bit.ly/4iVNE8u.
On 9 May, Dr Lowri Rees (Bangor) is holding a workshop on new approaches to Welsh history. Lowri is a 2024-25 Royal Historical Society Teaching Fellow and this day event is funded by the Society. Register by 16 April.
#skystorians
03.04.2025 08:32 — 👍 31 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
@lowriannrees.bsky.social delivering a talk on the Welsh Country House to our @bangorhistory.bsky.social 'Castles, Quarries, and Communities' short course last night. A great turnout! Diolch yn fawr! @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @archpbu.bsky.social More info: www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/othe...
27.03.2025 10:26 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
@lowriannrees.bsky.social yn arwain ail sesiwn ein cwrs byr Cestyll, Chwareli a Chymunedau. Bu Lowri’n trafod plastai gwledig 🏠🏞️ Dr Lowri Ann Rees @ystadaucymru.bsky.social led the 2nd session of our popular Castles, Quarries & Communities short course, tackling country houses and the landscape 👏🏾
27.03.2025 07:03 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Cyn Ddirprwy Prifwenidog Cymru, Arweinydd Plaid Cymru ac AS ac AC Môn. Ymchwilydd Doethurol-Doctoral Researcher
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
ORCID: 0009-0002-6711-5649
MA Early Modern History student at The University of Sheffield, specialising in Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries. Views are my own. #SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Hyrwyddo rôl menywod yn hanes Cymru ~ Championing the role of women in Welsh history. www.archifmenywodcymru.org / www.womensarchivewales.org
UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Lover of old things⚔️
Tour Guide covering North Wales
Adult Learning Coordinator
History Lecturer 🗡️
Obsessions: medieval history, history of witches, books, graves, mead, castles.
https://linktr.ee/conwyhistory
Gwefan ddeinamig, ddwyieithog yn llawn ffotograffau, dogfennau, fideos a straeon cyfareddol am hanes a threftadaeth Cymru.
We are the Colwyn Bay Heritage Group. Check us out here: https://colwynbayheritage.org.uk Making the heritage and history of the Colwyn Bay area (Old Colwyn and Rhos on Sea too) accessible to all. Here too for Wales, history, antiquities and nostalgia.
A website, full of fascinating photographs, sound recordings, documents, videos and stories about the history of Wales.
Committed to enhancing scholarly and public understanding of Irish historic houses and estates through education, research & publication. Contact cshihe@mu.ie
The Whole Business of Man Is The Arts & All Things Common. he/him/fo.
Publishing sources for the history of south Wales
Mapping Officer @rcahmwales.bsky.social | Landscape Archaeology | Historical GIS | Historical Cartography | FRGS | Board Game Enthusiast | Proud Cat Dad 🐱
Lecturer in Early Modern History | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | 'miasma enthusiast' - The Critic | 'belligerent academic' - The Daily Mail | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | writing my third book
Historian: women, early 19C Dakota and Ojibwe country; Dir: Bright Institute @ Knox College; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land
CBHC yw'r corff cenedlaethol archwiliadau ac archif ar gyfer amgylchedd hanesyddol Cymru | RCAHMW is the national body of survey and archive for the historic environment of Wales
cbhc.gov.uk | rcahmw.gov.uk | coflein.gov.uk | youtube.com/@rcahmw
Llyfrgell i Gymru a’r Byd
A Library for Wales and the World
FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
History Senior Research Fellow & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge; British Academy PDRF. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
