In the second half of the nineteenth century, several #Asian #missionaries visited #Wales
and spoke to Welsh congregations about the difficult circumstances under which they carry out their work.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/some-cursory-notes-on-asian-missionaries-in-victorian-wales/
#histodons #India #Kurdistan #Palestine #history #Bywgraffiadur
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
During our 2-year run on the #DiversityProject for the #Bywgraffiadur, we published over 60 fantastic articles about extraordinary people in the #history of #Wales. Today was my last day on the project and it is only fitting to go out on #TransDayOfVisiblity by sharing Mike Parker's beautiful contribution about the travel-writer and Gymraes by choice, Jan Morris.
If you have not had the delight to encounter her writing or stories about her, Jan's life as emojis might look something like this: π§ππ§βπ»ποΈππποΈποΈπ€±πΌπ°πΌπΌπ₯ΎποΈποΈπ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπ²π¦π³οΈββ§οΈπ βοΈππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπͺπ¬ππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπβ§οΈππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ ΏπΊπ‘οΈππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπ©ββ€οΈβπ©πͺ¦
Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-MORR-JAN-1926
#histodons #lgbtqia
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
I have finally encountered my personal bΓͺte noire.
Excited primary school kids π§ speaking their second language π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ at hyper-speed β© and getting recorded with background noise (π§ more π§ children π§ chatting π§).
My ears: π± π±π±π±
New language skill unlocked:
Transcribing the π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ ex-Archdruid speaking rapid-fire Gog to school kids for subtitles.
'Ac yn fan hyn mae na lun o Orsedd, a dyma o, Cynan, fan hyn yn ei wisg, ynde? Yn Archdderwydd a dyn niβn gweld meini Orsedd a Cynan yn dal basged uwch ei ben yn fan βna.'
And that's the easiest bit to understand speaking as someone who learnt #Cymraeg south of the Checkpoint Cletwr line.
Next language skill to crack:
Make the transcript grammatical.
#Bywgraffiadur -- but for the kids.
@CarveHerName The establishment of the Kingdom of Hawai'i is perhaps one of our more unusual stories among a whole series of extraordinary lives captured by the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur. We're currently preparing an article about the Welshman Issac 'Aikake' Davis who, together with John Young, acted as advisor to the future first king, Kamehameha I, and was instrumental in the unification and establishment of the kingdom in 1795. Only this morning, our author in Hawai'i shared a link to a video that shows Davis's personal Book of Common Prayer, the first of its kind in the archipelago, exhibited at the Cathedral of St. Andrew.
Reposting my #Introduction because there's a flurry of new folks -- and I'm an eternal optimist at finding fellow Welsh writing in English peeps. So here goes:
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. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. I'm also into #PublicHistory and community outreach, sometimes abt #PortHeritage, #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.
I share longer #WiP here: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/
Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.
#Histodons
I'm in the middle of marking up the latest article for the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur about the jeweller and trader Morris Wartski and there's the casual mention that the Marquess of Anglesey attended the lavish wedding of Wartski's daughter in 1903.
Doing the maths, it wasn't just any marquess, but *that* Marquess -- who was not only a good customer, but had also helped Wartski to set up his business.
Oh, to have been privy to the conversations of an observing man (who helped set up the first synagogue in Bangor!) and the man who makes David Bowie look like someone who wasn't trying hard enough.
#JewishHeritage #LGBTQI #QueerHistory #Histodons #Wales
Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartski#/media/File:Wartski_Bangor.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Paget,_5th_Marquess_of_Anglesey.jpg
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