Rhys Kaminski-Jones
@rhyskamjones.bsky.social
Celtic Revivalism, Romantic Celticism, Celtic Imperialism. Research Fellow at the University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (August 2025)
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Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (August 2025)
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Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819
Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.
boydellandbrewer.com
Publication day!!
Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more
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Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more
🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨
When I do my Frankenstein, I am just going to massively extend the single sentence when they're in Wales.
Academy awards await.
Academy awards await.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
When I do my Frankenstein, I am just going to massively extend the single sentence when they're in Wales.
Academy awards await.
Academy awards await.
Look, this isn't performative reading. The guy I went to undergrad with who used to lie on a wall outside the english faculty in a velvet jacket reading poetry - that's how you do it
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Look, this isn't performative reading. The guy I went to undergrad with who used to lie on a wall outside the english faculty in a velvet jacket reading poetry - that's how you do it
Reposted by Rhys Kaminski-Jones
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Reposted by Rhys Kaminski-Jones
Now Edwin Rose (@edwinrose.bsky.social) moves on to birds, and the original bird of paradise specimen that was illustrated for the title image of Pennant's 'Indian Zoology' - now present in the museum, with starling feet attached to replace the lost originals
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Now Edwin Rose (@edwinrose.bsky.social) moves on to birds, and the original bird of paradise specimen that was illustrated for the title image of Pennant's 'Indian Zoology' - now present in the museum, with starling feet attached to replace the lost originals
Reposted by Rhys Kaminski-Jones
For our first talk today, Alex Deans from @uofglasgow.bsky.social tells us about Thomas Pennants rather disappointed reaction to Caithness in 1769 - an "immense morass", though at least with "a few rows of tolerable trees" (!)
We're looking forward to our conference at the Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) on Friday - read our press release to find out more!
Conference Reveals Welsh Naturalist’s Major Contributions to London’s Natural History Museum
The upcoming ‘Curious Collections’ conference at the Natural History Museum, London (November 7th) will shed new light on one of the oldest collections in the museum’s archives and explore the scienti...
www.uwtsd.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
For our first talk today, Alex Deans from @uofglasgow.bsky.social tells us about Thomas Pennants rather disappointed reaction to Caithness in 1769 - an "immense morass", though at least with "a few rows of tolerable trees" (!)
Did anyone contemporary with Charles Fourier ascribe "féminisme" to him as a coinage, or is it purely a distant back-projection? Earliest ascription to him I've found is a claim it was Marya Chéliga-Loevy in 1896 (Offen, 2000)
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Did anyone contemporary with Charles Fourier ascribe "féminisme" to him as a coinage, or is it purely a distant back-projection? Earliest ascription to him I've found is a claim it was Marya Chéliga-Loevy in 1896 (Offen, 2000)
In ‘Muslim Wales: A History in 9 Places’ Abdul-Azim Ahmed explores the stories of 9 Welsh places, and the people, artefacts and buildings associated with them, which highlight the deep history of Islam in Wales. Publishing 23 February 2026. Pre-order our website www.serenbooks.com/book/muslim-...
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Relatedly, I do have a recurring urge to start a podcast with a "Cancel this Celt?" section 😉
Reading @reproutopia.bsky.social's 'Enemy Feminisms', finally, and struck by how many left historical projects now are similar attempts to name anti-libaratory tendencies in our own favoured movements while trying to maintain the radical energy associated with them. 'Bad Gays' and kinda my book too
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Relatedly, I do have a recurring urge to start a podcast with a "Cancel this Celt?" section 😉
Reading @reproutopia.bsky.social's 'Enemy Feminisms', finally, and struck by how many left historical projects now are similar attempts to name anti-libaratory tendencies in our own favoured movements while trying to maintain the radical energy associated with them. 'Bad Gays' and kinda my book too
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reading @reproutopia.bsky.social's 'Enemy Feminisms', finally, and struck by how many left historical projects now are similar attempts to name anti-libaratory tendencies in our own favoured movements while trying to maintain the radical energy associated with them. 'Bad Gays' and kinda my book too
Every Welsh schoolchild of a certain vintage and disposition has this imprinted on their soul if it was on their classroom wall
A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Every Welsh schoolchild of a certain vintage and disposition has this imprinted on their soul if it was on their classroom wall
The bit where a shrieky abstract atmospheric metal band unexpectedly pulls out a guitar solo that could only be called "gnarly" - pleasing
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The bit where a shrieky abstract atmospheric metal band unexpectedly pulls out a guitar solo that could only be called "gnarly" - pleasing
I need them to announce the airdate for Professional MasterChef, it's officially late and it's my daylight-saving-gloom coping mechanism
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I need them to announce the airdate for Professional MasterChef, it's officially late and it's my daylight-saving-gloom coping mechanism
I'm doing such an excellent job this week at sending the emails I haven't been sending because I'm shamefaced because I should already have sent them.
Catharsis! Purgation!
Catharsis! Purgation!
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I'm doing such an excellent job this week at sending the emails I haven't been sending because I'm shamefaced because I should already have sent them.
Catharsis! Purgation!
Catharsis! Purgation!
Reposted by Rhys Kaminski-Jones
We're looking forward to our conference at the Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) on Friday - read our press release to find out more!
Conference Reveals Welsh Naturalist’s Major Contributions to London’s Natural History Museum
The upcoming ‘Curious Collections’ conference at the Natural History Museum, London (November 7th) will shed new light on one of the oldest collections in the museum’s archives and explore the scienti...
www.uwtsd.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We're looking forward to our conference at the Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) on Friday - read our press release to find out more!
Reposted by Rhys Kaminski-Jones
We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!
The great collective rebellions of nineteenth-century Wales.
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
![In October, Spencer, Carry and I went to Llanover to Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall for the Eisteddfod at Abergavenny … just as Carry and I were putting on our things to go to Abergavenny, there was a knock at the door and Lady Hall’s maid entered carrying two frightful linstey [sic –linsey] petticoats and bodices, two Welsh chimney-pot black hats with coarse mob caps and said, ‘If you please, her Ladyship wishes you and Miss Lucy to wear the Welsh costumes today at the Eisteddfod’ … Tizzard exclaimed, ‘Oh Ma’am you will surely never put on such ugly things and take off your own beautiful dress and pretty new bonnet! And Miss Lucy, Oh! She must not make herself such a guy. ‘No’ I cried, ‘we will not’, But Carry … said ‘Never mind Mamma, we had better do as Lady Hall wishes and perhaps all the other ladies will be dressed in these costumes.’ … Tizzard … came back saying all the ladies were furious but were putting on the Welsh dresses which Lady Hall had sent to each of them. So Carry and I took off our pretty dresses and put on the frights. The hat was much too large for me and was so heavy it did nothing but come down half over my nose, and the linstey so hot, I never was more uncomfortable and I vowed I would never wear such horrible things again to please any Lady Hall, nor did I and all the other ladies agreed with me and we returned our linsteys and hats etc to her Ladyship that same evening and made her very angry.
Mrs Lucy of Charlecote (1803 – 1889) Mistress of Charlecote, The Memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy, (London, 1985), pp. 95-97](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp27scbhcz4sl5eidxkq2l7f/bafkreigwqrwmleb5makrtfixyrfeyadpfvxh6kqf6kf2t4c4juuttmbccm@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The great collective rebellions of nineteenth-century Wales.
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
The Merthyr Rising.
The Rebecca Riots.
The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod
WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE ANGLOPHONES
Bíonn na daoine seo ag caint faoin nGaeilge mar a bheadh comhartha stádais inti. An fhírinne ná gur mionteanga í, agus nach bhfuil muid ag iarraidh ach na caighdeáin chéanna agus an meas céanna a thugtar d’aon teanga eile
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE ANGLOPHONES
I'd somehow never seen this. Gaze upon the horror of the bard costume Lady Llanover made her harpist wear
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'd somehow never seen this. Gaze upon the horror of the bard costume Lady Llanover made her harpist wear
Ah yes, the Western Classical Tradition, famous for containing no texts whatsoever that suggest the noble and uncivilized outsider knows better than the degraded and tyrannical empire-dweller
the point of the straw man though of course is just to allow him to pretend to be a "bold truth-teller." and that truth?
a 5th-column of traitors and heretics - basically, in his eyes, anyone who isn't a white dude - are attacking the foundations of America and "the West."
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a 5th-column of traitors and heretics - basically, in his eyes, anyone who isn't a white dude - are attacking the foundations of America and "the West."
5/
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Ah yes, the Western Classical Tradition, famous for containing no texts whatsoever that suggest the noble and uncivilized outsider knows better than the degraded and tyrannical empire-dweller
I stare at an embroidered sweater I cannot afford for *slightly* too long and now it follows me round the internet in targeted ads like a gothic premonition of catastrophe
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I stare at an embroidered sweater I cannot afford for *slightly* too long and now it follows me round the internet in targeted ads like a gothic premonition of catastrophe
50%-off Calan Gaeaf/Halloween offer on Boydell e-books like mine at the moment! code: BOO50
Publication day!!
Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more
🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨
Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more
🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨
Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819
Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.
boydellandbrewer.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
50%-off Calan Gaeaf/Halloween offer on Boydell e-books like mine at the moment! code: BOO50
I had a moment editing this blog when I had an impulse to look up a video of the bird swimming as Sean describes it, before realising the whole point is that it's no longer with us (in that way)
"Pennant’s great auk reflects...a paradigm shift precipitated by the realisation that a species could vanish; and therefore that a ‘resource’ could in fact become exhausted and disappear altogether"
Artist Sean Harris on extinction and animation for our blog
curioustravellers.ac.uk/curating-the...
Artist Sean Harris on extinction and animation for our blog
curioustravellers.ac.uk/curating-the...
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I had a moment editing this blog when I had an impulse to look up a video of the bird swimming as Sean describes it, before realising the whole point is that it's no longer with us (in that way)
Weird job sometimes... (spending almost an hour hunting down an illustrated Wood Pigeon some guy thought looked too aggressive in 1764)
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Weird job sometimes... (spending almost an hour hunting down an illustrated Wood Pigeon some guy thought looked too aggressive in 1764)
There is something alchemical to me about how little effort goes into a truly astounding black bean soup
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
There is something alchemical to me about how little effort goes into a truly astounding black bean soup
And with ongoing evidence suggesting the moral vacuum of the government-supported British arms industry is facilitating this
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
And with ongoing evidence suggesting the moral vacuum of the government-supported British arms industry is facilitating this