Ashley Drake
@ashleyjdrake.bsky.social
Cymro Ewropeaidd 🏴🇪🇺 Welsh European
Cyhoeddwr 📚 Publisher
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
www.st-davids-press.wales
Is-Gadeirydd/Vice-Chair Cyhoeddi Cymru
Pro-Indy/#WalesAway/ 🚴♂️ / 🏃♂️/⭐CPO⭐
Gorau Chwarae Cyd Chwarae
Cyhoeddwr 📚 Publisher
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
www.st-davids-press.wales
Is-Gadeirydd/Vice-Chair Cyhoeddi Cymru
Pro-Indy/#WalesAway/ 🚴♂️ / 🏃♂️/⭐CPO⭐
Gorau Chwarae Cyd Chwarae
🏴 47% = Plaid / Green 😲
November 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🏴 47% = Plaid / Green 😲
October 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Labour - the party's over
October 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Labour - the party's over
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📣 Now available globally in paperback & ebook 📣
Four classic titles for students of #ScandinavianStudies #NordicStudies & #MedievalLiterature
@oxscandistudies.bsky.social @apardjon1.bsky.social
@sagathingpodcast.bsky.social @loremyth.bsky.social
@northerntapestry.bsky.social
Four classic titles for students of #ScandinavianStudies #NordicStudies & #MedievalLiterature
@oxscandistudies.bsky.social @apardjon1.bsky.social
@sagathingpodcast.bsky.social @loremyth.bsky.social
@northerntapestry.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📣 Now available globally in paperback & ebook 📣
Four classic titles for students of #ScandinavianStudies #NordicStudies & #MedievalLiterature
@oxscandistudies.bsky.social @apardjon1.bsky.social
@sagathingpodcast.bsky.social @loremyth.bsky.social
@northerntapestry.bsky.social
Four classic titles for students of #ScandinavianStudies #NordicStudies & #MedievalLiterature
@oxscandistudies.bsky.social @apardjon1.bsky.social
@sagathingpodcast.bsky.social @loremyth.bsky.social
@northerntapestry.bsky.social
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🎉 Published Today 🎉
New paperback & ebook editions of
The Saga of Hávarður of Ísafjörður
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
Available globally via #Ingram #IPS #LightningSource
#NordicStudies #IcelandicSagas #ScandinavianStudies
New paperback & ebook editions of
The Saga of Hávarður of Ísafjörður
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
Available globally via #Ingram #IPS #LightningSource
#NordicStudies #IcelandicSagas #ScandinavianStudies
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🎉 Published Today 🎉
New paperback & ebook editions of
The Saga of Hávarður of Ísafjörður
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
Available globally via #Ingram #IPS #LightningSource
#NordicStudies #IcelandicSagas #ScandinavianStudies
New paperback & ebook editions of
The Saga of Hávarður of Ísafjörður
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
Available globally via #Ingram #IPS #LightningSource
#NordicStudies #IcelandicSagas #ScandinavianStudies
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Published today! Allan heddiw!
Comprehensive explanations of the names of 900 towns, villages and hamlets - from Aberangell to Ystumgynon - in the historic Welsh county of Montgomeryshire / Sir Trefaldwyn.
➡️ www.welsh-academic-press.wales
@placenames.bsky.social @englishplacenames.bsky.social
Comprehensive explanations of the names of 900 towns, villages and hamlets - from Aberangell to Ystumgynon - in the historic Welsh county of Montgomeryshire / Sir Trefaldwyn.
➡️ www.welsh-academic-press.wales
@placenames.bsky.social @englishplacenames.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Published today! Allan heddiw!
Comprehensive explanations of the names of 900 towns, villages and hamlets - from Aberangell to Ystumgynon - in the historic Welsh county of Montgomeryshire / Sir Trefaldwyn.
➡️ www.welsh-academic-press.wales
@placenames.bsky.social @englishplacenames.bsky.social
Comprehensive explanations of the names of 900 towns, villages and hamlets - from Aberangell to Ystumgynon - in the historic Welsh county of Montgomeryshire / Sir Trefaldwyn.
➡️ www.welsh-academic-press.wales
@placenames.bsky.social @englishplacenames.bsky.social
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🏉OFFLOADING - TACKLING MY TRUTH🏉
The powerful and deeply personal memoir of former Wales and Lions rugby international Dafydd James who poignantly and courageously reveals the human cost of his sporting success.
Available in pbk from @swanseastones.bsky.social from 30 Sept
The powerful and deeply personal memoir of former Wales and Lions rugby international Dafydd James who poignantly and courageously reveals the human cost of his sporting success.
Available in pbk from @swanseastones.bsky.social from 30 Sept
July 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🏉OFFLOADING - TACKLING MY TRUTH🏉
The powerful and deeply personal memoir of former Wales and Lions rugby international Dafydd James who poignantly and courageously reveals the human cost of his sporting success.
Available in pbk from @swanseastones.bsky.social from 30 Sept
The powerful and deeply personal memoir of former Wales and Lions rugby international Dafydd James who poignantly and courageously reveals the human cost of his sporting success.
Available in pbk from @swanseastones.bsky.social from 30 Sept
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Snubbed Leicester legend was 'the best coach England never had'
The first biography of 'Chalkie' White - Out 25 Sept in pb & ebk
www.rugbypass.com/news/preview...
The first biography of 'Chalkie' White - Out 25 Sept in pb & ebk
www.rugbypass.com/news/preview...
Snubbed Leicester legend was 'the best coach England never had'
Leicester and English rugby greats come together to celebrate Chalkie White in Martin Whitcombe's biography about the Tigers legend.
www.rugbypass.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Snubbed Leicester legend was 'the best coach England never had'
The first biography of 'Chalkie' White - Out 25 Sept in pb & ebk
www.rugbypass.com/news/preview...
The first biography of 'Chalkie' White - Out 25 Sept in pb & ebk
www.rugbypass.com/news/preview...
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OTD: 8 September 1936.
Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis & DJ Williams, leaders of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, now @plaidcymru.bsky.social burnt down the partly-built RAF bombing school at #Penyberth and changed the course of Welsh history.
Now available in pbk & ebk:
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis & DJ Williams, leaders of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, now @plaidcymru.bsky.social burnt down the partly-built RAF bombing school at #Penyberth and changed the course of Welsh history.
Now available in pbk & ebk:
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
September 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
OTD: 8 September 1936.
Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis & DJ Williams, leaders of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, now @plaidcymru.bsky.social burnt down the partly-built RAF bombing school at #Penyberth and changed the course of Welsh history.
Now available in pbk & ebk:
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis & DJ Williams, leaders of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, now @plaidcymru.bsky.social burnt down the partly-built RAF bombing school at #Penyberth and changed the course of Welsh history.
Now available in pbk & ebk:
www.welsh-academic-press.wales
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📚Out 23 October📚
Over 900 place-names explained, from Aberangell to Ystumgynon.
Order now: www.welsh-academic-press.wales
Over 900 place-names explained, from Aberangell to Ystumgynon.
Order now: www.welsh-academic-press.wales
September 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
📚Out 23 October📚
Over 900 place-names explained, from Aberangell to Ystumgynon.
Order now: www.welsh-academic-press.wales
Over 900 place-names explained, from Aberangell to Ystumgynon.
Order now: www.welsh-academic-press.wales
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Cracking #WalesCast interview with @emyrlewis.bsky.social outlining how the UK Parliament (& UK Govt behind the scenes) has AGAIN created convoluted legislation to specifically avoid giving the Welsh Parliament the right to legislate on important domestic matters - here assisted dying:
#Senedd26
#Senedd26
June 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Cracking #WalesCast interview with @emyrlewis.bsky.social outlining how the UK Parliament (& UK Govt behind the scenes) has AGAIN created convoluted legislation to specifically avoid giving the Welsh Parliament the right to legislate on important domestic matters - here assisted dying:
#Senedd26
#Senedd26
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June 23 is St John’s Eve — Midsummer Night.
In Welsh folklore, it was a night to beware the Cŵn Annwn —ghostly hounds from the Otherworld — who roam the lonely roads and byways of Wales in eerie procession.
Listen carefully, they might be closer than you think...
#Wales #Folklore
In Welsh folklore, it was a night to beware the Cŵn Annwn —ghostly hounds from the Otherworld — who roam the lonely roads and byways of Wales in eerie procession.
Listen carefully, they might be closer than you think...
#Wales #Folklore
June 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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🚨🚨 #brexit anniversary: Office of Budget Responsibility predictions of £ 40 bn hit to public finances has proven correct according to research by top economist @johnspringford.bsky.social . www.thetimes.com/article/346e...
Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’
Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist
www.thetimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🚨🚨 #brexit anniversary: Office of Budget Responsibility predictions of £ 40 bn hit to public finances has proven correct according to research by top economist @johnspringford.bsky.social . www.thetimes.com/article/346e...
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Five things to remember about war:
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Five things to remember about war:
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'There is now ample evidence that independence for Scotland and Wales would result in a stronger economy than remaining in the UK' ✍️
Read the full article: www.thenational.scot/politics/252...
Read the full article: www.thenational.scot/politics/252...
June 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
'There is now ample evidence that independence for Scotland and Wales would result in a stronger economy than remaining in the UK' ✍️
Read the full article: www.thenational.scot/politics/252...
Read the full article: www.thenational.scot/politics/252...
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Dear America friends, this is what Scotland did when our equivalent to ICE tried to take away our friends and neighbours
We freed them and then ran the uniformed goon squad out of town
Do not back down. You’ll win if you stand firm
Some reading if it’s required en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmure...
We freed them and then ran the uniformed goon squad out of town
Do not back down. You’ll win if you stand firm
Some reading if it’s required en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmure...
June 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Dear America friends, this is what Scotland did when our equivalent to ICE tried to take away our friends and neighbours
We freed them and then ran the uniformed goon squad out of town
Do not back down. You’ll win if you stand firm
Some reading if it’s required en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmure...
We freed them and then ran the uniformed goon squad out of town
Do not back down. You’ll win if you stand firm
Some reading if it’s required en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmure...
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Clydebank Waterfront (West Dunbartonshire) council by-election result:
SNP: 35.6% (+5.6)
REF: 26.3% (+26.3)
LAB: 25.3% (-29.5)
LDEM: 4.7% (+4.7)
CON: 2.9% (-8.4)
Seat change: SNP HOLD.
+/- 2022
andrewteale.me.uk/previews
SNP: 35.6% (+5.6)
REF: 26.3% (+26.3)
LAB: 25.3% (-29.5)
LDEM: 4.7% (+4.7)
CON: 2.9% (-8.4)
Seat change: SNP HOLD.
+/- 2022
andrewteale.me.uk/previews
Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack
"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
andrewteale.me.uk
May 16, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Clydebank Waterfront (West Dunbartonshire) council by-election result:
SNP: 35.6% (+5.6)
REF: 26.3% (+26.3)
LAB: 25.3% (-29.5)
LDEM: 4.7% (+4.7)
CON: 2.9% (-8.4)
Seat change: SNP HOLD.
+/- 2022
andrewteale.me.uk/previews
SNP: 35.6% (+5.6)
REF: 26.3% (+26.3)
LAB: 25.3% (-29.5)
LDEM: 4.7% (+4.7)
CON: 2.9% (-8.4)
Seat change: SNP HOLD.
+/- 2022
andrewteale.me.uk/previews
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Starmer's Britain.
Not even subtle.
Not even subtle.
May 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Starmer's Britain.
Not even subtle.
Not even subtle.
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After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.
May 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.
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The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
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A reminder that when the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down people immediately started blaming immigrants and teenagers...
It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.
It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.
May 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A reminder that when the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down people immediately started blaming immigrants and teenagers...
It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.
It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank