Rhys Kaminski-Jones
@rhyskamjones.bsky.social
Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (Boydell, 2025)
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (Boydell, 2025)
He/They/Fo/Nhw
We've also found this from a 1994 issue of RFD (aka Radical Faerie Digest) - we thought there might be something in that queer subculture!
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We've also found this from a 1994 issue of RFD (aka Radical Faerie Digest) - we thought there might be something in that queer subculture!
UPDATE: so, it looks like when you search for "the faes" as the plural form rather than "the fae" you do get a few more hits.
Most seem explicitly marked as French, but not the earliest so far (a real outlier in our current sample) - a poem appendixed to 'Anston Park' by James Edmeston in 1821
Most seem explicitly marked as French, but not the earliest so far (a real outlier in our current sample) - a poem appendixed to 'Anston Park' by James Edmeston in 1821
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
UPDATE: so, it looks like when you search for "the faes" as the plural form rather than "the fae" you do get a few more hits.
Most seem explicitly marked as French, but not the earliest so far (a real outlier in our current sample) - a poem appendixed to 'Anston Park' by James Edmeston in 1821
Most seem explicitly marked as French, but not the earliest so far (a real outlier in our current sample) - a poem appendixed to 'Anston Park' by James Edmeston in 1821
My first OED dive missed out the 'fay' entry, which we have in Gower in 1393, but still no 'fae' in English until the 90s so far
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My first OED dive missed out the 'fay' entry, which we have in Gower in 1393, but still no 'fae' in English until the 90s so far
Are you sure you're not underestimating the world-altering power of "Charlie Kirk is Braveheart" AI memes?
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Are you sure you're not underestimating the world-altering power of "Charlie Kirk is Braveheart" AI memes?
Although perhaps the alternative highlight of the night was @emmettaylor.bsky.social's live discovery of this sadly neglected 2001 tome
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Although perhaps the alternative highlight of the night was @emmettaylor.bsky.social's live discovery of this sadly neglected 2001 tome
Bur why wouldn't you want to dress like me? Look at how happy and inviting it looks!
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Bur why wouldn't you want to dress like me? Look at how happy and inviting it looks!
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
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
This guy (looks too much like a raptor and might disgrace the whole publication, apparently)
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This guy (looks too much like a raptor and might disgrace the whole publication, apparently)
You say that, but
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
You say that, but
Never change, metal bands
October 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Never change, metal bands
They are evangelicals, so Catholicism probably doesn't count, but the extremely masc and clothed Saint Sebastian would definitely like to have a word
October 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
They are evangelicals, so Catholicism probably doesn't count, but the extremely masc and clothed Saint Sebastian would definitely like to have a word
He is getting a bunch of likes on Elon Twitter, but it is satisfying to note that some of his crowd think a) it has too much naughty nudity and b) that the Celticism might be heretically "gnostic"
October 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
He is getting a bunch of likes on Elon Twitter, but it is satisfying to note that some of his crowd think a) it has too much naughty nudity and b) that the Celticism might be heretically "gnostic"
"The most masculine, muscular work of Christian art since Braveheart", apparently.
Not what you get when you order Game of Thrones from Wish dot com.
Not what you get when you order Game of Thrones from Wish dot com.
October 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"The most masculine, muscular work of Christian art since Braveheart", apparently.
Not what you get when you order Game of Thrones from Wish dot com.
Not what you get when you order Game of Thrones from Wish dot com.
Looks like we've got some half-arsed Christo-fascist "Celtic" Arthuriana coming from Ben Shapiro's Trumpist crowd. Yay.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...
October 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Looks like we've got some half-arsed Christo-fascist "Celtic" Arthuriana coming from Ben Shapiro's Trumpist crowd. Yay.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...
Here's the first appearance of Llwyd's version in print, adapted by another Welshman David Powel in 1584
The best explanation we have, in the available evidence, is that the claim to a specifically American voyage was built onto an existing Welsh seafaring character to bolster Tudor imperialism
The best explanation we have, in the available evidence, is that the claim to a specifically American voyage was built onto an existing Welsh seafaring character to bolster Tudor imperialism
![Madoc another of Owen Gwyneth his sonnes left the land [of Wales] in contention betwixt his brethren, and prepared certaine ships with men and munition, and sought adventures by seas, sailing West […] he came to a land unknowen, where he saw manie strange things. This land must needs be some part of that countrie of which the Spaniardes affirme themselves to be the first finders […] Whereupon it is manifest, that that countrie was long before by Brytaines discovered, afore either Columbus or Americus Vespatius lead anie Spaniardes thither](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp27scbhcz4sl5eidxkq2l7f/bafkreiezohtlxwblz2g3p6xuq2frjxj47vw734loh4m6kakmq7spsxglwq@jpeg)
October 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Here's the first appearance of Llwyd's version in print, adapted by another Welshman David Powel in 1584
The best explanation we have, in the available evidence, is that the claim to a specifically American voyage was built onto an existing Welsh seafaring character to bolster Tudor imperialism
The best explanation we have, in the available evidence, is that the claim to a specifically American voyage was built onto an existing Welsh seafaring character to bolster Tudor imperialism
This is the oldest surviving reference we have to a relevant Madog, from a fifteenth century Welsh poem - he's clearly known as a voyager, but no mention of America
Translation here by Jerry Hunter, whose full overview you can read with a free JSTOR account:
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
Translation here by Jerry Hunter, whose full overview you can read with a free JSTOR account:
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
![In thanking his patron, Maredudd ap Rhys drew a comparison with a character named Madog who was apparently known in tradition:
Mewn awr dda minnau ar ddŵr,
O fodd hael, a fydd heliwr.
Madog wych, mwyedig wedd,
Iawn genau Owain Gwynedd,
Ni fynnai dir, f’enaid oedd,
Na da mawr ond y moroedd.
Minnau rhodiaf yr afon
Ar hyd y gro â rhwyd gron.
[At a fitting time it is I who will be upon water,
Enabled by generous means, a hunter.
Splendid Madog, of great countenance,
Proper scion of Owain Gwynedd,
He did not desire land, he was my inspiration,
Nor [did he desire] great wealth other than the seas.
I for my part travel the river
All along the gravel with a round net.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp27scbhcz4sl5eidxkq2l7f/bafkreif5ec3ekkavwvbdvycsgbomcrw3xuepjnillcrflbsgg5bpbj2lni@jpeg)
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is the oldest surviving reference we have to a relevant Madog, from a fifteenth century Welsh poem - he's clearly known as a voyager, but no mention of America
Translation here by Jerry Hunter, whose full overview you can read with a free JSTOR account:
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
Translation here by Jerry Hunter, whose full overview you can read with a free JSTOR account:
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
I will entertain the idea that "Nation of Sanctuary" branding has come back to bite the government when just saying "of course we help people in crisis" in a more low-key way would have helped the right less, but this gets dangerously close to "we should only shell out for popular white refugees"
October 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I will entertain the idea that "Nation of Sanctuary" branding has come back to bite the government when just saying "of course we help people in crisis" in a more low-key way would have helped the right less, but this gets dangerously close to "we should only shell out for popular white refugees"
Is the position being argued here "Welsh Labour should have been clearer that their refugee policy was designed to mainly help white people"?
October 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Is the position being argued here "Welsh Labour should have been clearer that their refugee policy was designed to mainly help white people"?
Also, Alan was right
October 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Also, Alan was right
Re: Spellbound, just an all round incredible credits still here
October 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Re: Spellbound, just an all round incredible credits still here
Penny sleeping through Hitchcock's Spellbound. No taste for the classics
October 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Penny sleeping through Hitchcock's Spellbound. No taste for the classics
It was this from an Eva Gore-Booth poem that got me yesterday, but the one that's always got me is Markievicz in prison going "Why on earth did they shoot Skeffy?"
October 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It was this from an Eva Gore-Booth poem that got me yesterday, but the one that's always got me is Markievicz in prison going "Why on earth did they shoot Skeffy?"
Hell, I should have started listening to the new billy woods sooner
September 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Hell, I should have started listening to the new billy woods sooner