WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE WELSH HETEROSEXUALS

The funniest thing about this is that Chris Nolan arguably made the most commercially successful right wing art of recent years with the Dark Knight films, and they're currently melting down at him for mildly unracist casting

Well fuck this, Ghana's amazing and deserves better than this shit

I love that first day of personal summer where everyone is beautiful and the world is lovely (today, for me)

Donate if you're able! Big conference fees are a wild bar to scholarly accessibility

Is there going to be someone trying to fund a white nationalist MAGA Aeneid in response to Nolan's Odyssey, or have not enough of the chuds heard of that one?

So much awful/hilarious/predictable Oxford Union Robinson drama in this, but chef's kiss for the accusation that someone there recently blocked Plaid Cymru and the SNP for being too divisive

Re: this story, can anyone recommend reading on how Anglo-Western liberal and left decolonialisms interact with Hindutva politics that also come across as (explicitly or implicitly) reacting against colonial legacies?

Trying to work out what I think about my impression that Byron is, by reputation, the most Romantic British Romantic poet (vibes) whilst being the least Romantic British Romantic poet (literary style)

If the root cause of us getting Skynetted/Matrixed is AI Che Guevara gaining sentience on Question Time and deeming the human race counterrevolutionary, I think we deserve it

The biggest thing non Welsh-speakers are missing out on is using "Chwedl" to attribute speech. Imagine if you could say "Quoth" without sounding ridiculous, you're almost there.

Political pan-Celticism having a "reports of my death greatly exaggerated" moment?

Freely available intro to/translation of the 'Historia' of St Melangell via @librarywales.bsky.social's, if anyone's interested! (by Huw Pryce) I do wish there was a bit more detail about what miracles exactly her hares did and the precise mechanics of hare-related miracles, but there we go

Peter Mandelson calling his memoir The Third Man, i.e. identifying himself with a character who is happy to make money off killing kids with diluted penicillin, is an odd one, looking back

My darkest shameful literary guilty pleasure is that I do actually like the odd novel about the inner angst and relationship difficulties of an upper middle class literary type

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The Salisbury collection is a hugely important Welsh studies resource, if the plan is to remove it from the main relevant library space that's gobsmacking

"We must affix ourselves like a lamprey to the ailing but formidable carcass of our American progeny", hissed Sir Tony, wetly, from 'neath his hood. "Only then will Britain again be magnificent!"

Join us at the National Library of Scotland (@natlibscot.bsky.social) for a presentation on Thomas Pennant and the Origins of Scottish Tourism - and the public launch of the first parts of our new online editions of Pennant's Tours! Book for free via the link, 5:30-6:30 on Thursday June 4th.

In the hope that the research project I'm working on gets funded and I do get to go research in Chennai - what Kollywood films do I need to see?

The reward for not being able to publicise winning an award for a month is that you get to celebrate again when it's announced, good system all in all

A statement (datganiad) issued by Plaid Pride last night regarding the new EHRC Guidance on trans 'equality'. Whilst I was consulted on the wording, most of the work was done by my cis gay colleagues.

Llongyfarchiadau i Rhys Kaminski-Jones o’r Ganolfan ar ennill Gwobr Francis Jones 2025 am ei gyfrol Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707–1819: True Britons and Celtic Empires (Woodbridge, 2025). @rhyskamjones.bsky.social 📚👏👇 www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/college-anno...

Been sitting on this for a while, so delighted to be able to be publicly delighted about it!

Delighted that Google Translate, trying so hard to follow Welsh word order, has created Iggy Pop's Cambrian cousin "Pop Iggy"

Damia, ma' hyn yn drist i Gaerfyrddin. Ble arall oedd Rhys yn eu harddegau yn mynd i glywed araith hir am athrylith Iggy Pop?

Went out jogging and dancing on the same day

If it's true that there are already decent amounts of "Reform are sellouts for not going full Aryan Nations" voters *before* they win a general election and get reality tested, that is not a good sign

Finally, American politics is on this guy's wavelength

Round of applause to @patblanchfield.bsky.social on the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social for casually dropping "Mau Mau, Mao problems" in a discussion of revolutionary psychoanalysis without stopping to take a victory lap

Would someone still be able to lose badly at Pro Evolution Soccer in that dynamic ripple frozen in time and space, is my question?

Oh no, Laurence Fox is sad

Personally "company town" still makes me think of the truck-system and company owned exploitative shops in a British context, "model town" is the one purportedly built by a be-whiskered paternalist who just loved his workers

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Get it across to any semi-sympathetic folk who don't know enough trans people that this isn't an unpleasant sounding bureaucratic inconvenience, people we love have already been talking for years about leaving this wretched country

On the vague chance anyone is in Oxford today & wants to hear more about my research into archaeological misinformation, deviant archaeology & the far right, I'm giving the Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar in Visual, Material & Museum Anthropology in the Lecture Theatre at 12. Discussion after!

Nation of socially eugenic curtain twitching toilet inspectors strikes again

Today it was Ancient Greek bagpipes...

The National Museums Scotland online collections search seems to be down, is this just a temporary fault or has that function gone/moved?

I do think England needs Anti-Reform pacts and co-operation, but I'm not exactly sympathetic to a still right-tacking Labour/Burnham on this when they're willing to risk losing an MP and a mayoralty to Reform because they've decided none of their many MPs are good enough to lead

mclusky are now singing this song so incomprehensibly that it will probably pass the rheol Gymraeg at the Eisteddfod soon - Pafilwn bookers take note, storied Cardiff legends potentially available for hire

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You do develop research instincts that help you outside your historical specialism, and one of them is "if someone's confidently diagnosing a specific medical condition in a famous historical figure, there will be 5-10 other conditions equally confidently diagnosed based on the exact same evidence"

Streeting really has the shiny-faced David Cameron thing, is it a secret moisturiser you get from the private health lobby?

Absolutely this. Am surprised there were *no* Gaelic speakers in the new SNP intake, but comparison to Welsh sometimes doesn't take in how British state and society, e.g., allowed/facilitated Welsh in the established church + the development of a much stronger early Welsh print culture than Gaelic

Great watching multiple people in multiple countries further up the career ladder than me posting about, or about considering, quitting academic humanities. What an arid wasteland we're building for ourselves.

Footnoting a C18th travel text does fit with my butterfly-brain tendencies - today I've done Dutch soldiers, fairy folklore, the Danish-Norwegian enlightenment, and the disability discourse around the Emperor Claudius

Has anything citable been written on the Dunvegan Fairy Flag folklore/history since Ronald Black's Gaelic Otherworld edition? (@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social @robincdouglas.bsky.social)

RETVRN to the potwalloper qualification, nothing else will save Britain