#Introduction

I work as the Community Outreach Officer for the Welsh Dictionary of Biography, more collquially called the #Bywgraffiadur, at the #NationalLibraryOfWales. Our goal is to close representational gaps and set the Dictionary on a course of recording the diverse lives of historical Welsh people in all their facets. https://biography.wales/

Otherwise, I'm working on #WelshWritingInEnglish mostly from the long #C19, so there is lots of overspill into #RomanticLit and #EdwardianLit, #CulturalHeritage and #History of this small nation. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. For recent projects, I've undertaken some #PublicHistory work and community outreach about #PortHeritage, #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.

I share longer #WorkInProgress on my blog: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/

Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.

The latest issue of #Planet: The Welsh Internationalist quarterly magazine is out and the lovely editors gave me a spot in the #review section. So here's my thoughts in Rebecca F. John's #HistoricalNovel Vulcana, just published this spring by #honno

And if you haven't yet got a subscription for this wonderful indie #magazine from Wales, what's keeping you?

#Fiction #HistoricalFiction #WelshWritingInEnglish #LitStudies @litstudies

https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/planet-online/251/review/rita-singer

For anyone interested in Romantic essays about Welsh #folklore, #antiquarian studies, #Gothic and short stories, #HistoricalFiction or early #Tasmanian writing, allow me to share my comprehensive bibliography of Thomas Richards (1800-1877), formerly of Dolgellau before emigrating to Hobart via London in the early 1830s. Wherever possible, I have linked to #OpenAccess digital copies of any of his writings that I have been able to trace. This is a work in progress, so I hope to share future updates of the bibliography.

#Romantodons #Wales #Tasmania #LitStudies #WelshWritingInEnglish @litstudies

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/thomas-richards-1800-1877-a-bibliography-in-progress/

The hardship when you're looking at recent studies of the #HistoricalNovel and you give an internal whoop when you find titles dedicated to religion in the C19 historical novel, or the Cromwellian years -- and then neither title looks at Wales in any shape or form. No references to Wales as a historical actor/location, no selection of novels set in Wales, leave alone Welsh authors producing works. It's like writing about water without saying it's wet, when you dedicate a whole study to analysing the religious historical novel in C19 Britain and not even mention Wales even most cursorily as a place where you weren't able to swing a cat without hitting a revivalist in the face.

Sometimes research life is not fun when you do #WelshWritingInEnglish and have only very few people around you to talk shop with.

#Victorian #Literature

This is one goes out to anyone who has a title on their CV labelled "forthcoming". I feel you.

For this year's #WorldBookDay I have received unofficial word that I can add a forthcoming title to my publication list of edited works. Country Landlords by Louisa Matilda Spooner is on course for publication in 2026. Until then, give me strength (I wouldn't say no to €-cents) for every single, inevitable occasion when I will see the novel misattributed to Anne Beale.

#Victorian #Novel #Wales #WomensWriting #WelshWritingInEnglish #HonnoClassics
@victorianweb

Hot new content dropped in the International Journal for Welsh Writing in English!

‘Uncertain notice’: Unearthing Wales in William Wordsworth’s ‘Simon Lee’ and ‘Tintern Abbey’
Author: Matthew C. Jones (University of Florida)

#OpenAccess #WelshWritingInEnglish #Wordsworth #RomanticLit #Lit #Poetry #Wales

https://ijwwe.uwp.co.uk/article/id/9358/

#Honno , the Welsh Women's Press, is hosting an online panel to discuss Margiad Evans on Dec 8 at 7. Register (for free) here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming-margiad-a-trilogy-of-welsh-womens-classics-tickets-473893868317 #WelshWritinginEnglish #MargiadEvans #womenswriting

As has risen from the Pit of Glitches, I'm sticking my head over the online parapet again to let anyone know I'm here to discuss all things @litstudies @heritage @histodons mostly with an eye on #Wales, #WelshWritingInEnglish and #WelshHeritage and #History. If you want to keep up with the project I'm working for, have a look at our brand-spanking new @PortsPastPres feed.

One for the #CulturalStudies and #WelshWritingInEnglish crowd.
An accidental Raymond Williams quote sneaking its way into my documentary. https://youtu.be/gjDh0cDwEZ4

@EJBrand

For obvious reasons, I have to toot the #WelshWritingInEnglish horn.
#AllenRaine
#HildaVaughan
#ThomasRichards
#MikeParker (does non-fiction count?)

My other, non-Welsh faves are
#AngelaCarter
#JohnDonne

#Introduction

I'm a PostDoctoral researcher at #AberystwythUniversity working currently for the #PortsPastAndPresent project. For this project I have just produced a series of short documentary films around #CoastalHeritage of the #IrishSea (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSqDy-CF3zCb7oDOvhwml6P47pF9YGOA) as a new way of supporting #SustainableTourism in ferry port communities.

Otherwise, I'm working on #WelshWritingInEnglish mostly from the long #C19, so there is lots of overspill into #RomanticLit and #EdwardianLit, #CulturalHeritage and #History of this small nation. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. I've also done some #PublicHistory work and community outreach during the recent #CommemorationPeriod around #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.

I share longer #WorkInProgress on my blog: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/

Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.

@DrDaveH Bore da. This will be the more academic and focused feed, so happy to get networking here on all things #WelshHeritage and #WelshWritingInEnglish.

I now also have a parallel account for the more #academic output and networking over on @_bydbach_@hcommons.social where I will focus more on my work on #LitStudies, #WelshWritingInEnglish and #CulturalStudies. I'll stick around this one though because I don't want to miss what's going on in tŵt land.
@litstudies @histodons @museum

@kelseashanty @litstudies Strap yourself in for one of the perhaps best early novels written about the French Invasion of Fishguard in 1797. Not quite Napoleonic, but co-temporary.
Margaret Ellen James: The Fishguard invasion by the French in 1797
Publication date 1892 #C19Lit
#WelshWritingInEnglish #VictorianLit @litstudies

https://archive.org/details/fishguardinvasio00jame

@litstudies Any fellow #WelshWritingInEnglish folks out there?

After a few days of lurking and talking to two people I know from over birdland, I feel an #introduction is due. I'm a researcher at Aber Uni working on Welsh and Irish ferry ports, but by training I specialise in #WelshWritingInEnglish, #WelshHistory and #heritage. This weekend I'm at Gregynog for a #Literature conference and will be trying to live toot what I can.