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'Where this exhibition scores is in its inclusion of many sketches and other preparatory works by both artists ... these and other works bring us as close as we can get to the act of making art.' Turner & Constable @tate.bsky.social gwallter.com/art/turner-a...
January 23, 2026 at 12:13 PM
'Where this exhibition scores is in its inclusion of many sketches and other preparatory works by both artists ... these and other works bring us as close as we can get to the act of making art.' Turner & Constable @tate.bsky.social gwallter.com/art/turner-a...
Dryw (llun gan Carys Evans): rhif 1 mewn cyfres o 'Cyfarfodydd ag adar rhyfeddol': gwallter.com/cymraeg/tri-...
January 16, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Dryw (llun gan Carys Evans): rhif 1 mewn cyfres o 'Cyfarfodydd ag adar rhyfeddol': gwallter.com/cymraeg/tri-...
What have the Donro Doctrine and the 1895 Venezuela crisis have in common? gwallter.com/history/a-zo...
January 9, 2026 at 5:23 PM
What have the Donro Doctrine and the 1895 Venezuela crisis have in common? gwallter.com/history/a-zo...
Eugénie-Paméla Larivière: a good stand-in for Fanny Price?
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January 2, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Eugénie-Paméla Larivière: a good stand-in for Fanny Price?
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gwallter.com/books/imagin...
What's political about fonts? gwallter.com/politics/the...
December 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
What's political about fonts? gwallter.com/politics/the...
Newyddion da o Abertawe! gwallter.com/libraries/ag...
December 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Newyddion da o Abertawe! gwallter.com/libraries/ag...
Cardiff blues, anarchic poets and bookshop 'shrinkage' gwallter.com/books/peter-...
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Cardiff blues, anarchic poets and bookshop 'shrinkage' gwallter.com/books/peter-...
A hymn to the power of imagination: Philip Pullman's 'The rose field' gwallter.com/books/dust-a...
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A hymn to the power of imagination: Philip Pullman's 'The rose field' gwallter.com/books/dust-a...
'You could easily miss the farmer in this painting, so camouflaged are his clothes and face against the dark tones of the mountain slope.' 'Kyffin in Bangor talk': gwallter.com/art/kyffin-i...
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
'You could easily miss the farmer in this painting, so camouflaged are his clothes and face against the dark tones of the mountain slope.' 'Kyffin in Bangor talk': gwallter.com/art/kyffin-i...
Craig Cau, 19 November: one the finest days I've ever had on Cader Idris in 50 years.
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Craig Cau, 19 November: one the finest days I've ever had on Cader Idris in 50 years.
'The Llanboidy Molecatcher', a star of a new book, 'Carmarthenhire in 100 Objects' gwallter.com/art/things-f...
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
'The Llanboidy Molecatcher', a star of a new book, 'Carmarthenhire in 100 Objects' gwallter.com/art/things-f...
"‘Ignoring the fans’ I find admirable. He’s come all this way to play and sing for us, what more do we want?" Bob Dylan in Swansea. gwallter.com/music/bob-dy...
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"‘Ignoring the fans’ I find admirable. He’s come all this way to play and sing for us, what more do we want?" Bob Dylan in Swansea. gwallter.com/music/bob-dy...
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...