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Aber – fan (21 Hydref 1966) I Hamelin erstalwm, os yw'r hen stori'n ffaith, fe ddaeth rhyw bibydd rhyfedd yn gwisgo mantell fraith. A'r pibydd creulon hwnnw â aeth a'r plant i gyd a'u cloi, yn ôl yr hanes, o fewn y mynydd mud. A Hamelin oedd ddistaw a'r holl gartrefi'n brudd, a mawr fu'r galar yno tros lawer nos a dydd. Distawodd chwerthin llawen y plant wrth chwarae 'nghyd, pob tegan bach yn segur, a sŵn pob troed yn fud. Trist iawn fu hanes colli y plant diniwed, gwan – yn Hamelin erstalwm, heddiw yn Aber-fan. T.Llew Jones #CofiwchAberfan #Wales #histodon #poetry (2025-10-21 ↗)
It's been superlong in the making, but here it is as last, the third and final part in my little series about Allen Raine, her #WelshRevival novel and a discussion of #LiteraryLandscape and #music https://bydbach.hcommons.org/allen-raine-soft-power-rebel-part-3/ #Wales #WelshWritingInEnglish #Literature #LitStudies #Novel (2025-08-14 ↗)
No wonder why I can never spell Meirionnydd correctly. #AmEditing #Wales #History #PlaceNames (2025-08-08 ↗)
Welsh History Review have just published my #review of the fabulous anthology 'Colonial Countryside: Creative and Historical Responses', edited by Corinne Fowler and Jeremy Poynting. I urge everyone with an interest in the #history of English and Welsh estates to read this collection as it brings historic research and #CreativeWriting into an eye-opening dialogue. #Wales #England #Decolonisation #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/uwp/whis/2025/00000032/00000003/art00007 (2025-07-09 ↗)
"Alex says he first came to know of Henry through those bathroom photos. "The one I particularly remember was him dressed up as Boadicea with big Edwardian moustaches. "[It was] a bit of a giggle. His existence wasn't denied but he wasn't a major part of the family heritage. "He was viewed as the black sheep of the family, this eccentric, weird bloke who we knew about and thought he sounded quite funny. "When I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s, homosexuality was still illegal. He wasn't necessarily gay actually, he was probably asexual, but that whole kind of thing of an alternative sexuality was certainly not generally in most circles accepted. "That personal sexual liberation of the 1960s, and then more recently of course with LGBTQ identities, he has become a bit of an icon, and attitudes towards him have definitely changed."" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jjnky5leo (2025-07-06 ↗)
