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Sefydliad Ymchwil Ystadau Cymru | Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates. Research centre at Bangor University. www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe

History - Culture - Landscapes - Archives - Heritage - People - Places - Wales
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Thema Archwiliwch Eich Archif heddiw yw #EYAEichArchif

ARCHIFAU A CHASGLIADAU ARBENNIG PRIFYSGOL BANGOR

#ExploreYourArchives #exploreyourarchive
Mae 2025 wedi bod yn flwyddyn eithaf heriol i Archifau a Chasgliadau Arbennig Prifysgol Bangor. Hoffem ddiolch i chi'n bersonol am y gefnogaeth aruthrol a gawsom, am eich dealltwriaeth a'ch gwerthfawrogiad o bwysigrwydd aruthrol casgliadau archifol y Brifysgol a'u gwerth i'r gymuned leol. Rydym nawr yn edrych tua'r dyfodol, i gydweithio â'n holl randdeiliaid er mwyn sicrhau ein bod yn parhau i gael ein cydnabod fel un o archifau Prifysgol gorau Prydain - yn casglu, yn cadw ac yn darparu mynediad at y casgliadau hanesyddol sy'n helpu i wneud Prifysgol Bangor yn sefydliad unigryw ac arbennig i bawb.
December 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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archpbu.bsky.social
Today’s Explore Your Archive theme is #EYAYourArchive

BANGOR UNIVERSITY’S ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

#ExploreYourArchives #exploreyourarchive
2025 has been quite a challenging year for Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections. We would like to thank you personally for the overwhelming support we’ve received, for your understanding and appreciation of the immense value of the University’s archival collections and its worth to the local community. We are now looking to the future, to working together with all our stakeholders to ensure that we continue to be recognised as one of the finest University archives in Britain - collecting, preserving and providing access to the historic collections that help make Bangor University a unique and special institution for everyone.
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Today’s Reinterpreting the Country House workshop focused on books& libraries.

We considered bookplates, marginalia, subscription lists, bindings, women’s book ownership, Welsh books, gifting, inscriptions, the book trade, education, multilingualism & much more.

Lots of fun!
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December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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This morning we enjoyed a brilliant supervisory meeting with ISWE doctoral researcher Hannah Jones, who talked us through the early construction of her ‘Deep Map’ of the parish of Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire.

Truly inspiring!

For more on Hannah’s research see: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/llanart...
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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We’re ever so grateful to our friend Dr J. Gwilym Owen for kindly gifting his library of legal history, land law and Welsh law books to ISWE, for the use of our doctoral researchers.

An immensely useful resource and such a generous gift.

Diolch yn fawr iawn Gwilym!
December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Seminar Ymchwil | Research Seminar

Peter Sandford (UHI)

The Tithe War in North and South-West Wales 1886-1895

2pm, 3/12/2025

Darlithfa 5, Prif Adeilad Y Celfyddydau | Lecture Room 5, Main Arts Building

Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University

Croeso i Bawb | All welcome
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Huge thanks to Dr Gareth Huws for a wonderful lecture yesterday evening, using the Plas Newydd & Bodrhyddan papers at @archpbu.bsky.social to explore the operation of Irish-Welsh estates.

Thanks to everyone who attended in person and online.

A pleasure to co-host with @historicirishho.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Shaun Evans tells us about what inspired him to research the Welsh 'coming of age' celebrations that were landmark events for gentry families and local society. Read the blog > buff.ly/izSJIjH @ystadaucymru.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Thrilled to have been invited to present my work with
@ystadaucymru.bsky.social at this year's @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Lecture.

So humbled by the amount of people that joined and with whom I was also able to chat - before and after the lecture -over some great big archive maps!
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Here we have 2 Sale Catalogues from the Great Anglesey Sale of 1904, where some 17,000 lots were sold including his ‘Important Jewellery’. Also, a sale catalogue of ‘Valuable Casket of Jewels’, the property of a ‘nobleman’ held prior to the 5th Marquess of Anglesey’s bankruptcy declaration.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This time last week our team were midway through an interdisciplinary research visit at the National library of Wales 📖 The marine scientists came away with a newfound appreciation for the art of deciphering handwriting! @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social @emilyphilly.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Brilliant to hear and learn so much in today's workshop hosted by @historicirishho.bsky.social and @heritagecouncil.ie @maynoothuniversity.ie.

Also a privilege to share the work undertaken by @archpbu.bsky.social and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social with such an engaged audience!
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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For anyone who missed last week’s launch of Dr Shaun Evans’s new book on Estate Coming of Age Celebrations, please visit the ISWE website for a fantastic blog based on the proceedings, kindly authored by Dr Bethan Scorey:

www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Come join us at @nhm-london.bsky.social on November 7th for a day conference on the connections between natural history collections and enlightenment travel writing.

For more information, programme and registration details, follow the link!

curioustravellers.ac.uk/curious-coll...
Curious Collections: Day Conference at the Natural History Museum Curious Travellers is a collaboration between the University of Wales Trinity St David, the University of Glasgow and the Natural History Museum, London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It studies the world of C18th travel and natural history through the works of Flintshire naturalist Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), whose multi-volume British Zoology, and Tours of Wales and Scotland helped shape public understanding of the habitats, cultures and histories of the British Isles. We are currently preparing digital editions of the Welsh and Scottish Tours and examining the valuable Pennant collections held at NHM. On Friday 7th November we are holding a day conference in the Natural History Museum exploring the connections between Pennant’s writings, the art-works he commissioned, his vast correspondence network and his specimen collections. We would like this to be a springboard for future cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional collaborations, so please join us for an invigorating day of presentations and discussions! Places are limited so please book by 30 October: a.elias@cymru.ac.uk (01970 636543) Short papers from the Curious Travellers research team and NHM curators, pairing specimens and archive material with research stories drawing on Pennant’s correspondence, travel writing and commissioned art-works. A session exploring intersections between natural science, cultural history and the digital humanities. A chance to see specimens from the Pennant Collection with items from Library and Archives, to talk to the team, and to see panels and creative work from the recent Curious Minds exhibition held in Selborne. A Future Directions panel exploring strategies for research development. Free lunch and a drinks reception (5.30pm-6.30pm).
October 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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LANSIAD LLYFR | BOOK LAUNCH

Dr Shaun Evans
Mewn sgwrs gyda | In conversation with Dr Lowri Ann Rees

COMING OF AGE CELEBRATIONS ON WELSH LANDED ESTATES: GENTRY, CULTURE & SOCIETY c.1770-1920

5.30pm, 23/10/2015
Lecture Room 2 Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University

Croeso i bawb | All welcome!
October 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Find out about our initiative to foster community connections and conversations within Dyffryn Ogwen, building upon the foundations laid by my doctoral research project:

www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ne...

@ystadaucymru.bsky.social, @archpbu.bsky.social, Partneriaeth Ogwen and other collaborators.
August 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates by Shaun Evans is the first comprehensive study of gentry coming of age celebrations, offering insights into the social & cultural dynamics of estate communities in 18th & 19th century Wales. Learn more: buff.ly/xHOSKU4 @ystadaucymru.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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My fabulous colleague Shaun Evans @ystadaucymru.bsky.social has published his brilliant book 'Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates'. If you're not immediately requesting your library to purchase a copy and putting it on course reading lists, what are you waiting for?!
boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · Sep 19
Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates by Shaun Evans is the first comprehensive study of gentry coming of age celebrations, offering insights into the social & cultural dynamics of estate communities in 18th & 19th century Wales. Learn more: buff.ly/xHOSKU4 @ystadaucymru.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Honoured to be invited to share my work as the guest speaker at @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Archives and Special Collections Lecture.

November 12
17:30 -18:30

See you there!

I am thankful for all the support I have received from the BUASC staff and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social.
Challenging time(s): Exploring how we shape the past and future of Eryri through the exchange of material culture, Alex Ioannou
The first Annual Archives and Special Collections Lecture was delivered by Professor Owen Dudley Edwar
www.bangor.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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#aydh Ar y dydd hwn yn 1734 (291 mlynedd yn ôl) – bu farw Ellis Wynne, awdur Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsc.

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July 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Honoured to address the @cambriansarch.bsky.social yesterday evening as part of their wonderful 2025 Summer Meeting on the Houses and Gardens of North Wales.
July 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Book: The Powells of Nanteos, by Gerald Morgan, published 11 July @ylolfa.bsky.social‬. The Nanteos Mansion Hotel closed on 5 March after operating for 12 years, due to difficult economic conditions.
www.ylolfa.com/products/978...
June 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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We’re absolutely delighted to hear that Dr Sadie Jarrett has been awarded the 2024 Francis Jones Prize for Welsh History for her first book, Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salusbury Family 1450-1720:

www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/dr-sadie-jar...
June 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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We’re absolutely delighted to hear that Dr Sadie Jarrett has been awarded the 2024 Francis Jones Prize for Welsh History for her first book, Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salusbury Family 1450-1720:

www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/dr-sadie-jar...
June 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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A lovely community engagement event at Canolfan Tregarth this evening discussing local history, landscape & environment through maps, photographs, old tools, place names, books, song, poetry, family documents, archives and memories.

A huge diolch to everyone who came along to share and discuss.
June 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM