Welsh History Review have just published my #review of the fabulous anthology 'Colonial Countryside: Creative and Historical Responses', edited by Corinne Fowler and Jeremy Poynting. I urge everyone with an interest in the #history of English and Welsh estates to read this collection as it brings historic research and #CreativeWriting into an eye-opening dialogue.

#Wales #England #Decolonisation #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/uwp/whis/2025/00000032/00000003/art00007

The #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur may be over, but its articles live on!

Here's my personal top-ten list of articles we managed to publish over a frighteningly short period of time.

Authors and colleagues in tootland: we couldn't have done it without you!

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/enwogion-o-fri-the-history-of-wales-just-got-more-vibrant/

#Wales #histodons #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #LGBTQI #Deaf #DeafHistory #LGBTQIHistory

Another milestone on the road to publishing day achieved: finished reading my way through the printer proofs -- 500+ pages and a few more footnotes added.

If in the meantime you'd like to find out more about this Welsh social novel from 1860, here's a link to a section from the introduction's draft version.

#WelshWritingInEnglish #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #Literature #Writing

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/announcing-the-37th-honno-welsh-womens-classics-volume/

Check out the Dictionary of Welsh Biography's new interactive timeline!

Did you know that the Black coal merchant Cesar Picton, the Ladies of Llangollen and the Hawai'ian chiefess Elizabeth Peke Davis Kaumualii were all alive at the same time? What's their link, you ask? They're all people in Welsh history!

Browse the timeline for all the names connected to our #DiversityProject. Some of these names still don't have an article. If you want to write their life stories, get in touch: [email protected]

https://js.histropedia.com/sheets/?id=1kax1hmRL-aKDUM6-FNHEI5E8p3PUj96PkBUeUbwlWYI&colourCode=Gender|Published&filter=Gender|Published

#Wales #histodons #digitalhumanities #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #LGBTQ #AgeOfRevolutions #Bywgraffiadur #Humanities

My third contribution to the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur: a short bio article about THOMAS RIGBY (c.1783-1841), publican and hairdresser. He is one of the earliest Black people settled in Carmarthenshire whose names we know.

This is the unedited version that just went to the editor.

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/thomas-rigby-c-1783-1841-publican-and-hairdresser/

#Wales #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #histodons #Biography

📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢

Congo House / African Training Institute, students

'Kwesi Ewusi (c.1881-1924) and Joseph A. Abraham (dates unknown) from the Gold Coast, for example, were associated with early Ethiopianist and pan-Africanist organisations in Britain. While studying at university, the Nigerians Ayodeji Oyejola (b. 1876) and Akidiya Ladapo Oluwole (dates unknown) were among the students who took on public-speaking engagements, which raised money for charitable causes in Britain, before they left to commence prominent careers as surgeons in west Africa. The South African Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (1885-1959) would become a pioneering educator and a founder of the All African Convention, which rallied against segregationist policies in his homeland. ' -- Robert Burroughs

Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-CONG-COL-1890

Image: https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AYIKCRQIALQ2Q28V/pages/AWYZRD7JBUYOUV8S
#DiversityProject #Bywgraffidur #Wales #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

I know we're all a bit preoccupied with goings on in the States and whether they elect to remain a democracy or abolish it. But nevertheless, here's my humble attempt at a diversion.

I've just dotted the i-s and crossed the t-s for my introduction to the latest Honno Welsh Women's Classics volume. And because I'm in a celebratory mood, here's an extract from said intro in which I discuss the role of the Black servant Yarico and her significance for #Victorian literature set in rural #Wales

#WelshWritingInEnglish #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #Literature #Writing

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/entanglements-of-empire/

📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢

JAMES (JIM) SAPOE JOHN MANNAY (Ahmed Hassan Ismail) (1927 - 2012), historian and poet
'Together with his cousin Emily, Benjamin Johnson's daughter, Jim spent years recording the history of the Kru people. They both kept many documents relating to individuals and Jim wrote extensively about the community in Tiger Bay, detailing many Kru and English names and nicknames. He was also a poet whose life story was reflected in his work. Thanks to the accuracy of his storytelling, Jim's work has resulted in the identification of over 600 individuals from West Africa throughout the UK, and became the basis of research to identify seamen from the Kru community who served in the two World Wars.' -- Rebecca J Eversley

Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-MANN-JOH-1927

#DiversityProject #Bywgraffiadur #Wales #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory

Darlun/Image: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/2173356

*OPEN ACCESS*

‘Globalising Welsh Studies: Decolonising history, heritage, society and culture’, edited by Neil Evans and Charlotte Williams is available now and can be read for free via the link below!

#Wales #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons #OpenAccess

Download: https://www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/9781837721870_WEB.pdf

📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢
WILLIAM ANDERSON HALL (born c. 1820), carpenter, fugitive from slavery, author
'Fleeing from enslavement, William was often helped by 'friends', a euphemism for the network of free African Americans and others who were sympathetic to those seeking to escape slavery and who made up the Underground Railroad. However, William's journey was far from straightforward. He was caught and imprisoned on at least two occasions, suffered beatings and betrayal and found that life in the free states of the North could be as precarious as in the South. It was only when William reached Canada that his 'old feelings of dread' left him.' -- Phil Okwedy
Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-HALL-AND-1820

#Bywgraffiadur #DiversityProject #Wales #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #AntiSlaveryMovement #histodons

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