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: ๐ง๐๐งโ๐ป๐๏ธ๐๐๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐คฑ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ผ๐ฅพ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ โ๏ธ๐ญ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ช๐ฌ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐โง๏ธ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ก๏ธ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ฉโโค๏ธโ๐ฉ๐ชฆ
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
@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.
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
Did you know the big hulking, 6-foot tall Grand Sword in the National Eisteddfod is actually German?
Here's the backstory why that is.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/hubert-von-herkomer-1849-1914-painter-designer-and-film-pioneer/
#ArtHistory #Biography #histodons #Germany #DiversityProject #Wales
Image credit: Geoff Charles, National Library of Wales
As one of my last assignments for 2024, I just finished writing my fourth article for the #Bywgraffiadur. The short version is currently in the hands of our main editor -- the long version, complete with an avalanche of images is waiting on my blog.
So if you ever wondered why a German artist created the 6-foot sword in the National #Eisteddfod in #Wales, look no further.
I give you Hubert von Herkomer: the man who married his wife's nurse, and his wife's nurse's sister.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/hubert-von-herkomer-1849-1914-painter-designer-and-film-pioneer/
#ArtHistory #Biography #histodons #Germany #DiversityProject
Image credit: Southampton City Art Gallery
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: rita.singer@library.wales
#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
Rita Singer