ISWE
@ystadaucymru.bsky.social
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
History - Culture - Landscapes - Archives - Heritage - People - Places - Wales
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!
@archpbu.bsky.social
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!
@archpbu.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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!
@archpbu.bsky.social
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!
@archpbu.bsky.social
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...
Truly inspiring!
For more on Hannah’s research see: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/llanart...
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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...
Truly inspiring!
For more on Hannah’s research see: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/llanart...
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!
An immensely useful resource and such a generous gift.
Diolch yn fawr iawn Gwilym!
December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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!
An immensely useful resource and such a generous gift.
Diolch yn fawr iawn Gwilym!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thanks to everyone who attended in person and online.
A pleasure to co-host with @historicirishho.bsky.social
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...
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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...
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...
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!
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
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!
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!
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
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.
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...
www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/dr-sadie-jar...
June 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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...
www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/dr-sadie-jar...
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.
A huge diolch to everyone who came along to share and discuss.
June 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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.
A huge diolch to everyone who came along to share and discuss.
Huge congratulations to ISWE’s @bethanscorey.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD thesis earlier today! Bethan’s thesis is a wonderfully expansive architectural history of St Fagans Castle, examined by Dr Ruth Larsen (Derby) & Dr Euryn Roberts (Bangor).
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!
June 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Huge congratulations to ISWE’s @bethanscorey.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD thesis earlier today! Bethan’s thesis is a wonderfully expansive architectural history of St Fagans Castle, examined by Dr Ruth Larsen (Derby) & Dr Euryn Roberts (Bangor).
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr Dr Scorey!!
New blog by @bethanscorey.bsky.social on Peter Lord’s ‘No Welsh Art’ exhibition at @librarywales.bsky.social, focusing especially on the role of the gentry as patrons for Welsh visual culture:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/no...
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/no...
June 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New blog by @bethanscorey.bsky.social on Peter Lord’s ‘No Welsh Art’ exhibition at @librarywales.bsky.social, focusing especially on the role of the gentry as patrons for Welsh visual culture:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/no...
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/no...
A lovely morning at Canolfan Cefnfaes, Bethesda, discussing local history, archives, landscape, placenames, farming and the future.
Funded by a Bangor University Community Engagement award.
Funded by a Bangor University Community Engagement award.
June 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A lovely morning at Canolfan Cefnfaes, Bethesda, discussing local history, archives, landscape, placenames, farming and the future.
Funded by a Bangor University Community Engagement award.
Funded by a Bangor University Community Engagement award.
Sut mae Dyffryn Ogwen wedi newid? Y penwythnos yma, yng Nghanolfan Cefnfaes, Bethesda, dewch yn llu.
How has Dyffryn Ogwen changed? This weekend at Canolfan Cefnfaes, Bethesda, all welcome.
How has Dyffryn Ogwen changed? This weekend at Canolfan Cefnfaes, Bethesda, all welcome.
June 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Sut mae Dyffryn Ogwen wedi newid? Y penwythnos yma, yng Nghanolfan Cefnfaes, Bethesda, dewch yn llu.
How has Dyffryn Ogwen changed? This weekend at Canolfan Cefnfaes, Bethesda, all welcome.
How has Dyffryn Ogwen changed? This weekend at Canolfan Cefnfaes, Bethesda, all welcome.
Wonderful to be at Bangor University this evening for a special event on Tirweddau Beiblaidd | Biblical Landscapes, co-organised by our doctoral researcher Alex Ioannou with Dr Gareth Jones-Evans.
A lovely exploration of Welsh landscape through creativity, collaboration and care
A lovely exploration of Welsh landscape through creativity, collaboration and care
June 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wonderful to be at Bangor University this evening for a special event on Tirweddau Beiblaidd | Biblical Landscapes, co-organised by our doctoral researcher Alex Ioannou with Dr Gareth Jones-Evans.
A lovely exploration of Welsh landscape through creativity, collaboration and care
A lovely exploration of Welsh landscape through creativity, collaboration and care
We’ve had a wonderful couple of days at Gregynog with the ISWE doctoral & doctoral graduate community. Based right across Wales, and beyond, it’s always brilliant to bring this group together to share knowledge, expertise and experiences.
Bangor Fund supported
Bangor Fund supported
June 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We’ve had a wonderful couple of days at Gregynog with the ISWE doctoral & doctoral graduate community. Based right across Wales, and beyond, it’s always brilliant to bring this group together to share knowledge, expertise and experiences.
Bangor Fund supported
Bangor Fund supported
Please help to ensure that the outstanding historic archives, special collections, rare books and manuscripts held at Bangor University continue to be accessible for research, for students, and for communities across north Wales and the wider world:
www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch yn fawr!
www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch yn fawr!
May 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Please help to ensure that the outstanding historic archives, special collections, rare books and manuscripts held at Bangor University continue to be accessible for research, for students, and for communities across north Wales and the wider world:
www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch yn fawr!
www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch yn fawr!
Dr Marian Gwyn, promoting the petition to save Bangor University Archives and Special Collections at our National Library of Wales earlier today.
Please support: www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch!
@archpbu.bsky.social
Please support: www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch!
@archpbu.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Dr Marian Gwyn, promoting the petition to save Bangor University Archives and Special Collections at our National Library of Wales earlier today.
Please support: www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch!
@archpbu.bsky.social
Please support: www.change.org/p/save-your-...
Diolch!
@archpbu.bsky.social
Lovely to see so many intelligent references to Sadie’s book in the ‘Wales & Europe in the Renaissance’ essays that I’m in the middle of marking. Doctoral research undertaken at Bangor informing how our undergraduates think about the history of Wales
@bangorhistory.bsky.social
@bangorhistory.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Lovely to see so many intelligent references to Sadie’s book in the ‘Wales & Europe in the Renaissance’ essays that I’m in the middle of marking. Doctoral research undertaken at Bangor informing how our undergraduates think about the history of Wales
@bangorhistory.bsky.social
@bangorhistory.bsky.social
Hugely excited to share the cover of my new book, due to be launched in September with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social.
Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates: Gentry, Culture and Society c.1770-1920.
More info here: boydellandbrewer.com/978183765025...
Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates: Gentry, Culture and Society c.1770-1920.
More info here: boydellandbrewer.com/978183765025...
April 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hugely excited to share the cover of my new book, due to be launched in September with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social.
Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates: Gentry, Culture and Society c.1770-1920.
More info here: boydellandbrewer.com/978183765025...
Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates: Gentry, Culture and Society c.1770-1920.
More info here: boydellandbrewer.com/978183765025...
Powis Castle: The Resilience of an Aristocratic Estate in Wales – Inheritance, Enclosure & Mining for Lead
For those of you who couldn’t make it to Bangor for our Annual Lecture earlier this month we’ve uploaded a summary report of Dr Melvin Humphreys’ talk here:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/hi...
For those of you who couldn’t make it to Bangor for our Annual Lecture earlier this month we’ve uploaded a summary report of Dr Melvin Humphreys’ talk here:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/hi...
April 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Powis Castle: The Resilience of an Aristocratic Estate in Wales – Inheritance, Enclosure & Mining for Lead
For those of you who couldn’t make it to Bangor for our Annual Lecture earlier this month we’ve uploaded a summary report of Dr Melvin Humphreys’ talk here:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/hi...
For those of you who couldn’t make it to Bangor for our Annual Lecture earlier this month we’ve uploaded a summary report of Dr Melvin Humphreys’ talk here:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/hi...
We’ll be sending out our latest ISWE newsletter by email over the next couple of days, full of exciting news about our research, projects & events
If you’d like to receive the newsletter, please email iswe@bangor.ac.uk to sign up to our mailing list
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @archpbu.bsky.social
If you’d like to receive the newsletter, please email iswe@bangor.ac.uk to sign up to our mailing list
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @archpbu.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We’ll be sending out our latest ISWE newsletter by email over the next couple of days, full of exciting news about our research, projects & events
If you’d like to receive the newsletter, please email iswe@bangor.ac.uk to sign up to our mailing list
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @archpbu.bsky.social
If you’d like to receive the newsletter, please email iswe@bangor.ac.uk to sign up to our mailing list
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @archpbu.bsky.social
A huge thank you to Dr Melvin Humphreys for delivering a wonderful Annual Lecture on the history of the Powis Castle estate at Bangor University yesterday.
And thank you to everyone who came along to support the event: it was terrific to have such a large audience!
And thank you to everyone who came along to support the event: it was terrific to have such a large audience!
April 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
A huge thank you to Dr Melvin Humphreys for delivering a wonderful Annual Lecture on the history of the Powis Castle estate at Bangor University yesterday.
And thank you to everyone who came along to support the event: it was terrific to have such a large audience!
And thank you to everyone who came along to support the event: it was terrific to have such a large audience!
Really looking forward to this tomorrow evening. Hope you’re able to join us! All welcome!
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Really looking forward to this tomorrow evening. Hope you’re able to join us! All welcome!
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
@bangorhistory.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
We’ve had a brilliant ISWE fieldtrip to Llannefydd #Denbighshire today with visits to the wonderful early Welsh gentry houses at Plas Uchaf and Berain, and a quick tour around Llannefydd Church.
March 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
We’ve had a brilliant ISWE fieldtrip to Llannefydd #Denbighshire today with visits to the wonderful early Welsh gentry houses at Plas Uchaf and Berain, and a quick tour around Llannefydd Church.