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Want to know what's really going on in the BBC? Come & hear Prof. Elan Closs Stephens, late of the BBC Board, in an RISW talk & discussion in Swansea Museum, Thursday 13 November, 6:30pm. All welcome.
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Want to know what's really going on in the BBC? Come & hear Prof. Elan Closs Stephens, late of the BBC Board, in an RISW talk & discussion in Swansea Museum, Thursday 13 November, 6:30pm. All welcome.
Aberystwyth: prifddinas llên - a mwy? gwallter.com/books/aber-p...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Aberystwyth: prifddinas llên - a mwy? gwallter.com/books/aber-p...
Well done, Aberystwyth, new UNESCO city of literature. More poets per hectare than in any other town.
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Well done, Aberystwyth, new UNESCO city of literature. More poets per hectare than in any other town.
'As Walter Bagehot well understood, monarchy continues to exist in order to infantalise the majority of the population.' Thoughts on the Irish presidential election and Andrew Windsor. gwallter.com/politics/mon...
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
'As Walter Bagehot well understood, monarchy continues to exist in order to infantalise the majority of the population.' Thoughts on the Irish presidential election and Andrew Windsor. gwallter.com/politics/mon...
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Come join us at @nhm-london.bsky.social on November 7th for a day conference on the connections between natural history collections and enlightenment travel writing.
For more information, programme and registration details, follow the link!
curioustravellers.ac.uk/curious-coll...
For more information, programme and registration details, follow the link!
curioustravellers.ac.uk/curious-coll...
October 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Come join us at @nhm-london.bsky.social on November 7th for a day conference on the connections between natural history collections and enlightenment travel writing.
For more information, programme and registration details, follow the link!
curioustravellers.ac.uk/curious-coll...
For more information, programme and registration details, follow the link!
curioustravellers.ac.uk/curious-coll...
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Drawn into Landscape – Symposium 🌿
The School of Art invites you to Drawn into Landscape, a symposium in conjunction with Robert Newell’s exhibition Echoes Among the Rocks.
🕑 Wednesday 29 October, 14:00 - 17:00
📍 School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr
More: tinyurl.com/h5x5tr9y
The School of Art invites you to Drawn into Landscape, a symposium in conjunction with Robert Newell’s exhibition Echoes Among the Rocks.
🕑 Wednesday 29 October, 14:00 - 17:00
📍 School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr
More: tinyurl.com/h5x5tr9y
October 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Drawn into Landscape – Symposium 🌿
The School of Art invites you to Drawn into Landscape, a symposium in conjunction with Robert Newell’s exhibition Echoes Among the Rocks.
🕑 Wednesday 29 October, 14:00 - 17:00
📍 School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr
More: tinyurl.com/h5x5tr9y
The School of Art invites you to Drawn into Landscape, a symposium in conjunction with Robert Newell’s exhibition Echoes Among the Rocks.
🕑 Wednesday 29 October, 14:00 - 17:00
📍 School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr
More: tinyurl.com/h5x5tr9y
Has Jesus College Cambridge improved since Coleridge went there in 1791? 'Jesus was an unwelcoming home, ‘the very palace of winds’. His rooms near the Porter’s Lodge were cold and clammy. He caught ’flu, which he treated with opium, and suffered from his bad teeth.' gwallter.com/literature/t...
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Has Jesus College Cambridge improved since Coleridge went there in 1791? 'Jesus was an unwelcoming home, ‘the very palace of winds’. His rooms near the Porter’s Lodge were cold and clammy. He caught ’flu, which he treated with opium, and suffered from his bad teeth.' gwallter.com/literature/t...
"Though, Jan Morris adds later, she may be mistaken in her interpretation: 'those professors are probably company accountants really; the novelist is preparing a computer program and the sages are not contemplating Time, but waiting for the football on TV.’" gwallter.com/travel/heave...
October 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
"Though, Jan Morris adds later, she may be mistaken in her interpretation: 'those professors are probably company accountants really; the novelist is preparing a computer program and the sages are not contemplating Time, but waiting for the football on TV.’" gwallter.com/travel/heave...
'Someone counted the number of dashes in Tristram Shandy and reckoned there were 9,560 of them, an average of one dash every three lines.' gwallter.com/literature/i...
October 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
'Someone counted the number of dashes in Tristram Shandy and reckoned there were 9,560 of them, an average of one dash every three lines.' gwallter.com/literature/i...
Pan oedd y gymdeithas ar-lein yn freuddwyd o hyd yn ein llyfrgelloedd … gwallter.com/libraries/ha...
October 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Pan oedd y gymdeithas ar-lein yn freuddwyd o hyd yn ein llyfrgelloedd … gwallter.com/libraries/ha...
'Swollen by the rains, Afon Glaslyn is brown, fast and angry. At Nantgwynant the mountains are streaked with broad silver torrents of water, Afon Nant Peris has burst its banks, and the road down Llanberis Pass is awash.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...
September 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
'Swollen by the rains, Afon Glaslyn is brown, fast and angry. At Nantgwynant the mountains are streaked with broad silver torrents of water, Afon Nant Peris has burst its banks, and the road down Llanberis Pass is awash.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...
'We ponder whether one of us should write the definitive monograph on the pedestrian gates of Eryri, to be published in an extravagant, full-colour edition by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...
September 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
'We ponder whether one of us should write the definitive monograph on the pedestrian gates of Eryri, to be published in an extravagant, full-colour edition by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...
'Further below, we pass a large quarried-out hole full of dark water, complete with signs warning passers-by not to approach it.' Llun: hen chwarel, Y Fron. gwallter.com/travel/snowd...
September 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
'Further below, we pass a large quarried-out hole full of dark water, complete with signs warning passers-by not to approach it.' Llun: hen chwarel, Y Fron. gwallter.com/travel/snowd...
Wittgenstein in Swansea: come and listen to Dr Alan Sandry talk about the greatest 20th century philosopher and his connection to Swansea: RISW event on Thursday 11 September at 6:30pm in Swansea Museum. All welcome.
September 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Wittgenstein in Swansea: come and listen to Dr Alan Sandry talk about the greatest 20th century philosopher and his connection to Swansea: RISW event on Thursday 11 September at 6:30pm in Swansea Museum. All welcome.
'Today the Revival is a distant dream, the quarrymen are asleep, and Sardis long closed.' Dinorwig, Gwynedd, yn y glaw.
gwallter.com/travel/snowd...
gwallter.com/travel/snowd...
September 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
'Today the Revival is a distant dream, the quarrymen are asleep, and Sardis long closed.' Dinorwig, Gwynedd, yn y glaw.
gwallter.com/travel/snowd...
gwallter.com/travel/snowd...
‘My favourite among these is Thomas Patch’s self-portrait as an ox, with its Latin inscription, ‘the person who humbles himself will be exalted’.’ gwallter.com/art/the-arti...
August 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
‘My favourite among these is Thomas Patch’s self-portrait as an ox, with its Latin inscription, ‘the person who humbles himself will be exalted’.’ gwallter.com/art/the-arti...
'The franchising change, however successful it is, will barely scratch the surface of the problems that arise from the fact that transport is so badly skewed in favour of the private car and against other means of getting around.' gwallter.com/travel/on-th...
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August 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
'The franchising change, however successful it is, will barely scratch the surface of the problems that arise from the fact that transport is so badly skewed in favour of the private car and against other means of getting around.' gwallter.com/travel/on-th...
@ianwalker.bsky.social #bus
@ianwalker.bsky.social #bus
An improbable Victorian murder: 'Black Hopkin', the gold watch and savage Eryri . gwallter.com/books/george...
August 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
An improbable Victorian murder: 'Black Hopkin', the gold watch and savage Eryri . gwallter.com/books/george...
Cofio Brinley. gwallter.com/libraries/by...
August 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Cofio Brinley. gwallter.com/libraries/by...
Trist iawn clywed am farwolaeth Dr R. Brinley Jones, cymwynaswr mawr y genedl, un o'r bobl garedicaf yng Nghymru, a chyfaill arbennig.
August 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Trist iawn clywed am farwolaeth Dr R. Brinley Jones, cymwynaswr mawr y genedl, un o'r bobl garedicaf yng Nghymru, a chyfaill arbennig.
'Dawn dweud' a'r ddadl am 'oracy' gwallter.com/cymraeg/dawn...
August 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
'Dawn dweud' a'r ddadl am 'oracy' gwallter.com/cymraeg/dawn...
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social on the Library of Alexandria: ‘cherish your libraries … they are places that scare people who don’t want us to think for ourselves’. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... In the week I discussed book bans on Dros Ginio: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Alexandria: The Library
Natalie explores the great library of Alexandria. With Edith Hall and Islam Issa.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social on the Library of Alexandria: ‘cherish your libraries … they are places that scare people who don’t want us to think for ourselves’. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... In the week I discussed book bans on Dros Ginio: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
'How many Swansea people, when they stroll along the sea wall past the Observatory ... stop to look closely at the diminutive building that sits on its own on the other side of the path?' gwallter.com/art/the-towe...
July 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
'How many Swansea people, when they stroll along the sea wall past the Observatory ... stop to look closely at the diminutive building that sits on its own on the other side of the path?' gwallter.com/art/the-towe...
Pont Dolauhirion (1773): the handsomest bridge in Wales? gwallter.com/travel/deep-...
July 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Pont Dolauhirion (1773): the handsomest bridge in Wales? gwallter.com/travel/deep-...
'In Shahzia Sikander’s beautiful and witty animated video The last post (2010), a cartoon Clive figure, enthroned like a Mughal emperor in an elaborate architectural setting, is made to crack apart and explode into small fragments.' Tigers & dragons, at the Glynn Viv. gwallter.com/art/tigers-a...
July 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
'In Shahzia Sikander’s beautiful and witty animated video The last post (2010), a cartoon Clive figure, enthroned like a Mughal emperor in an elaborate architectural setting, is made to crack apart and explode into small fragments.' Tigers & dragons, at the Glynn Viv. gwallter.com/art/tigers-a...