A time capsule in Dundalk.

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

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

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

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

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.

'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.'

News that Bangor University is to reconsider proposed cuts to its Archives and Special Collection service following significant public and political pressure has been welcomed

Caerphilly Council has yet to receive any offers to take over the running of Llancaiach Fawr, a Freedom of Information (FOI) response has revealed

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

"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.

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.

Gwefr prynu Beibl 'sydd mor brin â dannedd iâr' www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/ert...

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.

@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.

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

'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.'

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...

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

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

#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

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.]

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

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!

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!

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

#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

@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…

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 🧵

Here are some women from Welsh history we should remember... #InternationalWomensDay2025 ylolfa.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/f...

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

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.

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

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."

An upbeat take on recent events predicts the downfall of the 'Cowbridge Mussolinis'. nation.cymru/opinion/just...

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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

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?...

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

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.

All hail the power of archivists.

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...

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.

👀 Another very interesting, fully funded collaborative PhD: Practises make places: artists’ responses to ‘prehistoric’ monuments. Closing date: 20 February 2025. www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...