I know we're all a bit preoccupied with goings on in the States and whether they elect to remain a democracy or abolish it. But nevertheless, here's my humble attempt at a diversion.

I've just dotted the i-s and crossed the t-s for my introduction to the latest Honno Welsh Women's Classics volume. And because I'm in a celebratory mood, here's an extract from said intro in which I discuss the role of the Black servant Yarico and her significance for #Victorian literature set in rural #Wales

#WelshWritingInEnglish #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #Literature #Writing

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/entanglements-of-empire/

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It's publishing day!
If you've always wondered how the last invasion of Britain (which took place in Wales in 1797!) panned out in fiction, here's my two-cents worth in the shape of an #OA article:

"‘[A] very improbable and imaginative fiction’: Fictionalising the French invasion of Fishguard"'

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03061973241295331

#Wales #WelshWritingInEnglish #HistoricalFiction #LitStudies #Literature #histodons #OpenAccess

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While I'm still putting the finishing touches on the introduction (i.e. I'm still writing it), Honno are already taking pre-orders for their next volume in the Welsh Women's Classics series.

If high Victorian drama in the manner of Middlemarch is your thing, then this book is for you!

https://www.honno.co.uk/books/country-landlords

#Wales #Victorians #LitStudies #Novel #WelshWritingInEnglish

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#Introduction

I work as the Community Outreach Officer for the Welsh Dictionary of Biography, more collquially called the #Bywgraffiadur, at the #NationalLibraryOfWales. Our goal is to close representational gaps and set the Dictionary on a course of recording the diverse lives of historical Welsh people in all their facets. https://biography.wales/

Otherwise, I'm working on #WelshWritingInEnglish mostly from the long #C19, so there is lots of overspill into #RomanticLit and #EdwardianLit, #CulturalHeritage and #History of this small nation. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. For recent projects, I've undertaken some #PublicHistory work and community outreach about #PortHeritage, #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.

I share longer #WorkInProgress on my blog: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/

Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.

I now also have a parallel account for the more #academic output and networking over on @_bydbach_ where I will focus on my work on #LitStudies, #WelshWritingInEnglish and #CulturalStudies. I'll stick around this one though because I don't want to miss what's going on in tŵt land.
@litstudies @histodons @museum