Raymond Williams
@raymondkeywords.bsky.social
Assorted words from 'the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals' (Cornel West):
Raymond Henry Williams (1921-1988)
Raymond Henry Williams (1921-1988)
Irish history had broken into revolution, a war of liberation and civil war by the time [Sean] O'Casey began to write for the Abbey Theatre. His first acted play, The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), is a response to this experience of violence
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
December 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Irish history had broken into revolution, a war of liberation and civil war by the time [Sean] O'Casey began to write for the Abbey Theatre. His first acted play, The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), is a response to this experience of violence
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
Black power in the United States, civil rights in Ulster, the language in Wales, are experiences comparable in this respect to the student movement and to women’s liberation
- review of Ned Thomas's The Welsh Extremist, 1971
- review of Ned Thomas's The Welsh Extremist, 1971
December 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Black power in the United States, civil rights in Ulster, the language in Wales, are experiences comparable in this respect to the student movement and to women’s liberation
- review of Ned Thomas's The Welsh Extremist, 1971
- review of Ned Thomas's The Welsh Extremist, 1971
It isn't my business to pry into private affairs. But let me put it this way. I'm saying, on what I know, that Mark Evans changed, when he was elected and went to London
- The Volunteers, 1978
- The Volunteers, 1978
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It isn't my business to pry into private affairs. But let me put it this way. I'm saying, on what I know, that Mark Evans changed, when he was elected and went to London
- The Volunteers, 1978
- The Volunteers, 1978
It was a steady pattern: Mrs Praager in London, Mrs Evans in Wales. Parliamentary and Ministerial duties; the long sessions; the shortening constituency visits and vacations
- The Volunteers, 1978
- The Volunteers, 1978
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It was a steady pattern: Mrs Praager in London, Mrs Evans in Wales. Parliamentary and Ministerial duties; the long sessions; the shortening constituency visits and vacations
- The Volunteers, 1978
- The Volunteers, 1978
A skilled theatrical craftsman might well remain satisfied with such a situation, and go on writing plays for stock. But [Henrik] #Ibsen was always an artist, for whom the communication of significant experience must be the primary concern
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
A skilled theatrical craftsman might well remain satisfied with such a situation, and go on writing plays for stock. But [Henrik] #Ibsen was always an artist, for whom the communication of significant experience must be the primary concern
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
Old Wyndham still ran the garage, and the local bus, in Trawsfynydd, up the valley, north-west of Gwenton. The Owens brothers and their families, every year, rented his two caravans for their holidays
- Second Generation, 1964
- Second Generation, 1964
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Old Wyndham still ran the garage, and the local bus, in Trawsfynydd, up the valley, north-west of Gwenton. The Owens brothers and their families, every year, rented his two caravans for their holidays
- Second Generation, 1964
- Second Generation, 1964
But working class #materialism - the collective improvement of the common life - is objectively, in our circumstances, a humane ideal
- Working Class Culture, in Universities & Left Review, 1957, Vol.1 No 2
- Working Class Culture, in Universities & Left Review, 1957, Vol.1 No 2
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
But working class #materialism - the collective improvement of the common life - is objectively, in our circumstances, a humane ideal
- Working Class Culture, in Universities & Left Review, 1957, Vol.1 No 2
- Working Class Culture, in Universities & Left Review, 1957, Vol.1 No 2
News readers on both major [UK] channels are now media personalities: their identity is strongly projected, and they are presented as adding their personality to the news
- notes to the 2nd ed., Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 1990
- notes to the 2nd ed., Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 1990
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
News readers on both major [UK] channels are now media personalities: their identity is strongly projected, and they are presented as adding their personality to the news
- notes to the 2nd ed., Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 1990
- notes to the 2nd ed., Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 1990
"There are Welsh among our neighbours, my Lord. They give us no trouble"
"Welsh and give no trouble?" the lord laughed. He turned to enjoy his joke with the troop
- People of the Black Mountains 2: The Eggs of the Eagle, 1990
"Welsh and give no trouble?" the lord laughed. He turned to enjoy his joke with the troop
- People of the Black Mountains 2: The Eggs of the Eagle, 1990
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"There are Welsh among our neighbours, my Lord. They give us no trouble"
"Welsh and give no trouble?" the lord laughed. He turned to enjoy his joke with the troop
- People of the Black Mountains 2: The Eggs of the Eagle, 1990
"Welsh and give no trouble?" the lord laughed. He turned to enjoy his joke with the troop
- People of the Black Mountains 2: The Eggs of the Eagle, 1990
People have to, in the end, direct their own lives, control their own places, live by their own feelings
- 'Culture and Politics: @plaidcymru.bsky.social's Challenge to Wales', 1975 (originally a BBC Radio 3 lecture)
- 'Culture and Politics: @plaidcymru.bsky.social's Challenge to Wales', 1975 (originally a BBC Radio 3 lecture)
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
People have to, in the end, direct their own lives, control their own places, live by their own feelings
- 'Culture and Politics: @plaidcymru.bsky.social's Challenge to Wales', 1975 (originally a BBC Radio 3 lecture)
- 'Culture and Politics: @plaidcymru.bsky.social's Challenge to Wales', 1975 (originally a BBC Radio 3 lecture)
The definition of bourgeois society was a central concept in #Marx, yet especially in some of his early work the term is ambiguous
- Keywords (2nd ed.), 1983
- Keywords (2nd ed.), 1983
October 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The definition of bourgeois society was a central concept in #Marx, yet especially in some of his early work the term is ambiguous
- Keywords (2nd ed.), 1983
- Keywords (2nd ed.), 1983
The very continuance of the power system we have called the new #imperialism underlies much of the foreign policy in European countries which socialists have had to fight against so hard
- #MayDay Manifesto, 1968
- #MayDay Manifesto, 1968
October 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The very continuance of the power system we have called the new #imperialism underlies much of the foreign policy in European countries which socialists have had to fight against so hard
- #MayDay Manifesto, 1968
- #MayDay Manifesto, 1968
Fahrenheit 451 is characteristic of books of this type in that, under the emblem of a story of the future, it presents not so much an observation, but a current form of feeling related primarily to contemporary society
- Science Fiction, in The Highway (the journal of @weaadulted.bsky.social), 1956
- Science Fiction, in The Highway (the journal of @weaadulted.bsky.social), 1956
October 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Fahrenheit 451 is characteristic of books of this type in that, under the emblem of a story of the future, it presents not so much an observation, but a current form of feeling related primarily to contemporary society
- Science Fiction, in The Highway (the journal of @weaadulted.bsky.social), 1956
- Science Fiction, in The Highway (the journal of @weaadulted.bsky.social), 1956
The thrust of this collection of essays, by a relatively young generation, is a questioning of an accepted cultural version of Welshness
- West of Offa's Dyke, review of Tony Curtis ed., Wales: The Imagined Nation, 1986
- West of Offa's Dyke, review of Tony Curtis ed., Wales: The Imagined Nation, 1986
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The thrust of this collection of essays, by a relatively young generation, is a questioning of an accepted cultural version of Welshness
- West of Offa's Dyke, review of Tony Curtis ed., Wales: The Imagined Nation, 1986
- West of Offa's Dyke, review of Tony Curtis ed., Wales: The Imagined Nation, 1986
As Orwell wrote in 1939:
What we always forget is that the overwhelming bulk of the British proletariat does not live in Britain, but in Asia and Africa
- The Country And The City, 1973
What we always forget is that the overwhelming bulk of the British proletariat does not live in Britain, but in Asia and Africa
- The Country And The City, 1973
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
As Orwell wrote in 1939:
What we always forget is that the overwhelming bulk of the British proletariat does not live in Britain, but in Asia and Africa
- The Country And The City, 1973
What we always forget is that the overwhelming bulk of the British proletariat does not live in Britain, but in Asia and Africa
- The Country And The City, 1973
Nothing is more significant, in the continuing formation of the Labour Left, than the centrality of Parliament as the main - indeed often the only - agency for [social democratic] changes
- 'Notes on #Marxism in Britain since 1945' in @newleftreview.bsky.social, no. 100, 1976
- 'Notes on #Marxism in Britain since 1945' in @newleftreview.bsky.social, no. 100, 1976
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Nothing is more significant, in the continuing formation of the Labour Left, than the centrality of Parliament as the main - indeed often the only - agency for [social democratic] changes
- 'Notes on #Marxism in Britain since 1945' in @newleftreview.bsky.social, no. 100, 1976
- 'Notes on #Marxism in Britain since 1945' in @newleftreview.bsky.social, no. 100, 1976
Can we agree, perhaps, before passing to the more difficult questions, that #football is indeed a wonderful game, that jazz is a real musical form, and that gardening and homemaking are indeed important?
- Freedom and Ownership in the Arts, @newleftreview.bsky.social, 1960 #NSHD2025
- Freedom and Ownership in the Arts, @newleftreview.bsky.social, 1960 #NSHD2025
September 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Can we agree, perhaps, before passing to the more difficult questions, that #football is indeed a wonderful game, that jazz is a real musical form, and that gardening and homemaking are indeed important?
- Freedom and Ownership in the Arts, @newleftreview.bsky.social, 1960 #NSHD2025
- Freedom and Ownership in the Arts, @newleftreview.bsky.social, 1960 #NSHD2025
He had done all he meant to on Spain, and was now working more generally on the Mediterranean
'Not even one last little book on the Civil War?' Monkey asked, after some eager questioning on the Mediterranean work.
'It could hardly be little'
- Loyalties, 1985
'Not even one last little book on the Civil War?' Monkey asked, after some eager questioning on the Mediterranean work.
'It could hardly be little'
- Loyalties, 1985
September 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
He had done all he meant to on Spain, and was now working more generally on the Mediterranean
'Not even one last little book on the Civil War?' Monkey asked, after some eager questioning on the Mediterranean work.
'It could hardly be little'
- Loyalties, 1985
'Not even one last little book on the Civil War?' Monkey asked, after some eager questioning on the Mediterranean work.
'It could hardly be little'
- Loyalties, 1985
There is the problem of democratic control of these #media, for here it is a straight choice, because of the capital involved, between existing types of ownership and some kind of social ownership
- Working Class Culture, in Universities & Left Review Summer, 1957
- Working Class Culture, in Universities & Left Review Summer, 1957
September 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
There is the problem of democratic control of these #media, for here it is a straight choice, because of the capital involved, between existing types of ownership and some kind of social ownership
- Working Class Culture, in Universities & Left Review Summer, 1957
- Working Class Culture, in Universities & Left Review Summer, 1957
Many British working-class people welcomed American culture, or the Americanised character of British commercial television as an alternative to a British 'public' version which, from a subordinate position, they already knew too well
- Television, second ed. 1990
- Television, second ed. 1990
September 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Many British working-class people welcomed American culture, or the Americanised character of British commercial television as an alternative to a British 'public' version which, from a subordinate position, they already knew too well
- Television, second ed. 1990
- Television, second ed. 1990
Throughout the history of European culture, civic responsibility has often been more important than national responsibility
- 1984 interview with Stephen Heath and Gillian Skirrow, in 'Cultural Materialism on Raymond Williams', 1995
- 1984 interview with Stephen Heath and Gillian Skirrow, in 'Cultural Materialism on Raymond Williams', 1995
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Throughout the history of European culture, civic responsibility has often been more important than national responsibility
- 1984 interview with Stephen Heath and Gillian Skirrow, in 'Cultural Materialism on Raymond Williams', 1995
- 1984 interview with Stephen Heath and Gillian Skirrow, in 'Cultural Materialism on Raymond Williams', 1995
Hilary Fraser’s book, and the new edition of correspondence between #Ruskin and Norton, illuminate elements of this long and unfinished interaction
- Past Masters, a review of Fraser's 'Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and religion in Victorian Literature', in
@lrb.co.uk 9(12), 1987
- Past Masters, a review of Fraser's 'Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and religion in Victorian Literature', in
@lrb.co.uk 9(12), 1987
September 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Hilary Fraser’s book, and the new edition of correspondence between #Ruskin and Norton, illuminate elements of this long and unfinished interaction
- Past Masters, a review of Fraser's 'Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and religion in Victorian Literature', in
@lrb.co.uk 9(12), 1987
- Past Masters, a review of Fraser's 'Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and religion in Victorian Literature', in
@lrb.co.uk 9(12), 1987
I want the Welsh people - still a radical and cultured people - to defeat, override or bypass bourgeois #England
- Politics and Letters, 1979
- Politics and Letters, 1979
September 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I want the Welsh people - still a radical and cultured people - to defeat, override or bypass bourgeois #England
- Politics and Letters, 1979
- Politics and Letters, 1979