Tag: history
Patagonian Bones
26th February, 7:20 PM. The information desk at Ceredigion Museum had no lights on, and the streets around it were almost empty. Standing in front of …
Read moreLiterary Atlas: Plotting English Novels in Wales
On 5 February, the zoology lecture rooms of Swansea University played host to a talk on literature by Dr Kieron Smith. He is a lecturer at Swansea Uni …
Read moreDear Mona: Letters from a Conscientious Objector
Sometime after he completed the biography of his father, the artist Jonah Jones, Peter Jones was approached by a nephew of Mona Lovell, the woman who …
Read moreShards of Light
When I received a copy of Emyr Humphreys’ Shards of Light, I expected a kind of archaeological poetry. These previously unpublished poems are written …
Read moreA History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Capitalism has many relics. It is an ideology around which objects restlessly cohere. One such artefact is the smartphone on which you are perhaps rea …
Read moreA Simple Scale
Just about everything about this book is enticing, at least for anyone who likes a bit of East European/Russian sophistication and prefers their suspe …
Read moreCaradoc Evans: the Devil in Eden
Caradoc Evans’ reputation will not leave him alone. More than a century after the publication of My People, his debut collection of short stories, the …
Read moreThe Glass Aisle
In this semi-surreal journey through the present and past, Henry’s narrator walks us through the seasons and along a section of canal in Powys, sheddi …
Read moreTry the Wilderness First: Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-Ffin
Borders are a favourite theme among literary and cultural critics. Usually they are presented as sites of interaction and exchange, ‘liminal’ spaces w …
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