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Hanes * Llyfrgelloedd* Trafnidiaeth Gymunedol * History * Libraries * Community Transport
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Thanks to those who have followed us this week. Our channel will provide you with updates on the Society's work to support and advocate for history and historians, as well as the activity of other Uk / RoW organisations who do likewise.

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February 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Read my review of James Wright’s hugely vital work, ‘Historic Building Mythbusting’, over on my newsletter now. And then order your copy immediately afterwards 📚
February 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Very pleased to be talking at this event next month about Druids 🧙 & Castell Nadolig 🛖

🎫 Tickets are now live for the #Heneb & #RoyalCommission 2025 Archaeology Day!

📆 Friday 7th March
🕒 10.00 - 16.15
📍 Y Drwm, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
🖥️ In person and online

👉 buff.ly/40LKxYY
February 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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📸 Adnabod Cymeriad: Owen Shiers

Ar Ddydd Miwsig Cymru mae’r Garthen yn dathlu Cynefin – Owen Shiers

✍️ Y Garthen
Adnabod Cymeriad: Owen Shiers
Ar Ddydd Miwsig Cymru mae’r Garthen yn dathlu Cynefin – Owen Shiers
carthen.360.cymru
February 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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A bit of wisdom from the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas for these days of having to fight the status quo and not accepting the new normal because we are told to.
February 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Cardiff University’s proposal to cut its nursing degree programme would be a huge loss to the future of nursing and the NHS.

Please sign and share the petition to urge Cardiff University to reconsider the decision: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
Petition: Enable Cardiff University to keep the Nursing degree course
Cardiff University’s intention to cut the nursing degree programme is a huge loss to the future of nursing and the NHS. The loss in staff will have a significant impact on current students' studies. I...
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February 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The year is young, but if Shimli is a taste of things to come, Welsh folk music's revival offers hope, and indeed seeds, for a Welsh language revival, despite any talk of decay and displacement wp.me/p8Mk4U-UGo
Raising a flag: Cynefin's tender, brave and beautiful new album, Shimli
Stephen Price Folk musician, Cynefin, has released his second album Shimli, a poetic, forceful and bar-raising work on the themes of language, agriculture and loss that was formed through conversation...
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February 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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So I woke up to this, this morning. Slightly surreal, but really lovely none the less.

Felly, deffrais i hwn y bore yma. Bach yn swreal, ond yn hyfryd iawn serch hynny.

Thanks - diolch o galon @juderogers.bsky.social for the kind words / Am y geiriau caredig!

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Cynefin: Shimli review | Jude Rogers's folk album of the month
Singer Owen Shiers combines traditional ballads, musical settings of poems, and originals built on stories collected from rural west Walians, all sung in Welsh
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Today is Dydd Santes Dwynwen (St Dwynwen’s Day), the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine’s Day.

Dwynwen was a 5th century Welsh princess, and we have many accounts of her life passed through oral tradition, and later writings.

❤️ 1/3
January 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Our new signs to help spot birds,flowers,plants on the banks of the Teifi at Llandysul #teifi #plants #birds #nature #flowers #biodiversity #llandysul #cymru
January 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Digwyddiad yn Llandre, Ceredigion:
'𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗴𝗹𝘂 𝗘𝗻𝘄𝗮𝘂 𝗟𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗲𝗱𝗱 𝗖𝘆𝗺𝗿𝘂'
James January-McCann, Swyddog Enwau Llefydd, Comisiwn Henebion Cymru
Nos Iau, 30 Ionawr, 7:30yh, yng Nghapel Bethlehem, Llandre, Ceredigion.
Am ddim i aelodau Cymdeithas Treftadaeth Llandre, £2 i bawb arall.
January 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Mae Cymdeithas Enwau Lleoedd Cymru wedi cyrraedd yr Awyr Las #Cymraeg
January 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Mae cyfle i'ch plentyn dderbyn £3000 yn y brifysgol os ydyn nhw am fynd i brifysgol yng Nghymru fis Medi ac am astudio o leiaf 66% o'u cwrs yn Gymraeg!

🗓️24/01/25 DYDDIAD CAU CEISIADAU

Mae'r wybodaeth i gyd yma ac ar ein gwefan ni 👇

www.flipsnack.com/colegcymraeg...

#prifysgol #ysgoloriaeth
January 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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🎪 Penwythnos Garddio Llandysul 2025
📍 Neuadd Tysul, Heol Newydd, Llandysul
📆 13 Chwefror – 16 Chwefror
Penwythnos Garddio Llandysul 2025
calendr.360.cymru
January 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit”
President Joe Biden
January 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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This Thoughtful Tuesday, we want you to remember to always read with a pen/pencil/laptop as you won’t always remember where you got information from!

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll #FamilyHistory #HistoryTips #LocalHistory #ResearchTools
January 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🎟 Taith Gerdded Gylchol
📍 Maes Parcio Mart, Castellnewydd Emlyn
📆 10:00, 26 Ionawr
Taith Gerdded Gylchol
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January 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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📚 Y Talawrn
📍 Festri Capel Bryngwenith,, Henllan
📆 19:00, 4 Chwefror
Y Talawrn
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January 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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📚 Clwb darllen i bawb sy’n caru llyfrau
📆 19:00, 5 Mawrth
Clwb darllen i bawb sy’n caru llyfrau
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January 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Why have oats disappeared from Wales? - Song Stories
Really interesting video by @cynefinmusic.bsky.social
youtu.be/RQV-pryFKYQ?...
Why have oats disappeared from Wales? - Song Stories Pt.1
YouTube video by Cynefin
youtu.be
January 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Christmas Eve breaking through #llandysul #cymru @grimartgroup.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Awesome photos of Llandysul, diolch Robert!
December 24, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
December 22, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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December 1, 2024 at 3:49 AM