🔖Darlith O'Donnell 2024 O'Donnell Lecture
🗓️23/05/24 ⏰5.00pm
🗣️Dr Alex Woolf from St Andrews History
'Comparisons, Continuities, and Contacts in Early Insular History'
📍Y Drwm Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
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Cancelled’ Welsh hymns about mental illness and addiction to be sung again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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📢Fforwm Beirdd yr Uchelwyr
🗓️18 Mai 2024
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'Byddai'r croeso yn cydnabod caledi eu teithiau a pheryglon croesi'r Swnt garw mewn cychod brau...' 🛶

Pam fod pererinion wedi eu denu gan 'heddwch dihafal' Ynys Enlli ers canrifoedd? 🙏

Mwy yma 👇

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Newyddion pryderus yn dod o’r Llyfrgell a’r Amgueddfa. Dau sefydliad cenedlaethol sy’n chwarae rhan mor bwysig yn diogelu ein hunaniaeth ni 😔

‘Egbert king of England (d. 839) won the city of Chester…out of the hands of the Britons...forbidding this land to be called Britain anymore but England, and the people Englishmen’. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
When Britishness was not a synonym for Englishness…
Allan o ‘The Historie of Cambria’ (1584).

I think I speak for all Wales when I say cer i grafu, y coc oen afiach

'Courtier Demanded Assurance King Could Not Be Prosecuted Under New Welsh Law'...

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Why so few witches were executed in Wales in the middle ages theconversation.com/why-so-few-wit… via The Conversation

Merched yn llafurio ar lethrau Consti, 1863: pwy ydyn nhw? gwallter.com/history/aberys…

Esgobaeth Llanelwy i atal gwerthiant Eglwys Mihangel Sant Llanfihangel-yng-ngwynfa - Sign the Petition! chng.it/GJMQ2Cdw via Change.org UK

Bedd Porius. A grave marker from Trawsfynydd dating to the 5th century. It says 'Hic Intumulo Iacit Porius Homo XPianus Fuit', Porius lies here entombed, he was a Christian man. Image NMW. #epigraphytuesday

My village gets all the through traffic in&out of Pen Llyn&feels much safer with 20mph limit.Some motorists ignore the 20,but instead of going 40 in a 30 they now do 30 in a 20 so,if hit,50%chance of survival.

But who cares about locals eh?As long as the tourists are happy 🙄

Ar #YDyddHwn yn 1406, anfonodd Owain Glyndŵr lythyr, sy'n cael ei adnabod fel Llythyr Pennal erbyn hyn, at Charles VI, Brenin Ffrainc, yn gofyn iddo am ei gymorth â’i wrthryfel yn erbyn y Saeson.

Welsh 'brechdan' ('sandwich') is from Middle Irish 'brechtán' ('bread with butter') which is from Middle Irish 'brecht' (“variegated, multicolored”) which is cognate with Welsh 'brith' ('speckled, mottled').

Byddaf yn gweld ei cholli’n fawr. Coffa da am Morfydd Owen heddiw.

Pnawn bach difyr yn Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum. Trysor o le ✨Ni’n lwcus o gael rhywle fel hyn ar ein stepen drws.

Gyda thristwch y clywais am farwolaeth Dr Morfydd E. Owen ar Ddydd Sant Padrig. Ysgolhaig disglair a wnaeth gyfraniad enfawr i’n dealltwriaeth o destunau cyfreithiol a meddygol yr Oesoedd Canol. Bu’n diwtor cefnogol a hael ac yn gyfaill direidus. Diolch am bob dim Morfydd x

🔖Darlith Goffa Syr Thomas Parry-Williams Memorial Lecture
🗓18/04/24 🕔5.00pm
🗣Dr David Parsons
'Swords and Swine: the character of river-names in Welsh and English'
📍Y Drwm Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru & Zoom
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