It's publication day!

Enwogion o fri: Diversity Project 2023-2025

Our free #DiversityProject anthology for the #Bywgraffiadur has just dropped on KC Works. Over 40 authors contributed more than 60 articles about the most fascinating people in #Welsh #history you could possibly imagine.

We've covered #BAMEHistory #LGBTQ_ and #DisabilityHistory, #WomensHistory, #ArtHistory, the #HistoryOfScience, #HistoryOfReligion and #Wales

Frankly, there's not a single article in this collection that's not bound to be of interest to someone.

Get your own copy here as PDF or epub. And because we're in Wales, we even offer you two versions.

English: https://works.hcommons.org/records/dtb9c-bzm89
Cymraeg: https://doi.org/10.17613/mmwvm-ryh93

#History #BlackHistory #OA #OpenAccess

🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS! 🔥

CESAR PICTON (c. 1755 - 1836), coal merchant
'Cesar Picton was born c. 1755 in West Africa, possibly Senegal, and was brought to Britain in 1761 at the age of around six. The earliest reference to him is a note made on 8 November 1761 in the journal of Sir John Philipps of Picton (Philipps Family), sixth baronet (1701-1764), who represented Pembrokeshire in Parliament with the residence Norbiton Place in Kingston upon Thames: 'Went to Norbiton with Capt. Parr and Lieut. Rees, taking with me a Black Boy from Senegal given me by Capt. Parr, also a Paraquet and foreign Duck.'' -- Katie Barrett
Discover the rest of Cesar's story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-PICT-CES-1755

#BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #Wales #BAMEHistory #BlackHistory #BritishEmpire #histodons #DiversityProject #Bywgraffiadur

Image: Picton House, Kingston https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picton_House_-_Kingston.jpeg

In case you're interested in national #biography projects, #Wales, or #BAMEHistory or any configuration of the above, here's the English version of my piece for the current issue of the Welsh-language history magazine Hanes Byw.

#BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #Bywgraffiadur #DiversityProject

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/living-history-the-diversity-project-of-the-dictionary-of-welsh-biography/

📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢
MATTAN, MAHMOOD HUSSEIN (1923 - 1952), seaman and victim of injustice
'Mahmood Hussein Mattan was executed by Albert Pierrepoint on 3 September 1952, the last man to be hanged at Cardiff Prison. For the next 46 years the Mattan family fought to clear his name, living in the shadow of an injustice which threatened to tear them all apart.' -- Danielle Fahiya
https://biography.wales/article/s15-MATT-HUS-1923

Darlun/Image: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0cy03nc
#Bywgraffiadur #DiversityProject #Justice #BAMEHistory #Wales

Every day's a school day in which I am coming to grips with XML mark-up (disclaimer: I'm a complete newbie and have to learn it within a month of a colleague's departure). I've just published my first edited article for the #Bywgraffiadur and it makes me particularly proud to have contributed to our #DiversityProject by publishing Youhannah El Karey's biography, written by Genevieve Johnson-Smith.

https://bywgraffiadur.cymru/article/c14-ELKA-YOU-1843

#Wales #BAMEHistory #FaithHistory #Palestine

We just hit the 200 mark of collected names of people in search of an author to write their short #biography.

This is your chance to become an author for the #Bywgraffiadur. Get in touch!

#histodons #Wales #BAMEHistory #BlackHistory #WomensHistory #QueerHistory #DisabilityHistory

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/the-diversity-project-of-the-bywgraffiadur/

What's this? What's this?! A new page on the #Bywgraffiadur website presenting our growing list of names and some info on the #Diversity project?

If you fancy writing a short biographical article about any of the people included in the list, or would like to suggest new additions, please get in touch!

#histodons #BAMEHistory #Wales #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory @academicchatter

https://biography.wales/amrywedd

We're collecting names of historical Black, Asian and Minority-Ethnic individuals and groups of all sorts who have a significant link with #Wales for potential future inclusion in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography as part of our Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan project.

I'm currently compiling a list of suitable candidates, one of which are the many Italian Welsh families who have left a massive culinary imprint on Welsh cuisine and coffee culture.

If you have a name you'd like added -- or want to write about yourself, please get in touch!

@histodons #histodon #Bywgraffiadur #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BAMEHistory

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