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Dewch i weld ein harddangosfa newydd ar berthynas Thomas Pennant a Gilbert White, naturiaethwyr pennaf eu hoes, sy'n rhedeg rhwng Ebrill a Mehefin 2025. Lansir yr arddangosfa ar Ebrill 8fed, yn nhŷ Gilbert White yn Selborne!

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Please join us at our forthcoming exhibition, 'Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White', running April-June 2025 Launch event on April 8th at Gilbert White's House and Gardens, Selborne! (@gilbertwhites.bsky.social)

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"My father would rent a boat and we’d go out line fishing: we never caught much, but I remember on several occasions the sight of giant dorsal fins circling our boat" Nigel Leask reflects on gentle sharks, childhood memories, and machine-gun conservationism curioustravellers.ac.uk/pennant-and-...

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There is still time to register for Anita Guerrini's (@nickytheprof.bsky.social) seminar on Wednesday (3-4 CET) about the Welsh naturalist Edward Lhwyd : The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales. For Zoom-link please email: [email protected] Welcome!

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Submit your abstracts for this major Gilbert White conference, where's there'll be a sizeable Thomas Pennant presence (especially co-organiser @stephholtnh.bsky.social)!

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Read in @theguardian.com about our project team-member @edwinrose.bsky.social's research, highlighting the Indigenous botanical knowledge underlying the "discoveries" on Captain Cook's voyages

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Delighted to see this wonderful article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social @theguardian.com on some of the research being published in my forthcoming book that can be pre-ordered now! For the UK: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-... And USA: upittpress.org/books/978082...

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Our very own research subject, the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant, used Mary Impey's natural history collections to research and illustrate his 'View of Hindoostan' (1798) - an 'imaginary tour' of India written in north east Wales Listen to @empirepoduk.bsky.social to find out more about her!

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📢 GALWAD AM WIRFODDOLWYR 📢 Dyma 'Darlunio Pennant', prosiect torfoli newydd er mwyn "tagio" teithiau Thomas Pennant yng Nghymru a'r Alban. Tybed allwch chi helpu drwy adnabod lluniau llefydd, pobl, a. y. y. b. yn y cyfrolau hynod hyn o'r ddeunawfed ganrif? torf2.llyfrgell.cymru/s/tours/proj...

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📢 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 📢 [Please Share Widely!] Picturing Pennant is a new crowdsourcing project to "tag" the illustrations in Thomas Pennant's eighteenth-century Tours of Wales and Scotland. Can you help us identify the places, people, and much more in these wonderful illustrated volumes?

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We have our Postgrad Researcher Symposium today, great to see @edwinrose.bsky.social speaking on his work in the @NHM collections & archives, including on @curioustravellers.bsky.social @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social

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🎉 Our special issue on tourism and empire is now complete! 🍾 Check out all the articles in this thread while the folks at Itinerario work on actually compiling it into issue form, and do share with people you think might be interested. And thanks to all our contributors for their wonderful work!

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From fields to fauna, Robert Burns saw poetry in every blade of grass. @uofglasgow.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social @dr-ron.bsky.social unveil new PhD scholarship researching the bard's profound connection with the natural world #BurnsNight gla.ac/3PKLkUS

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In our first research blog of 2025, @edwinrose.bsky.social tells the story of his efforts (across multiple time zones) to secure one of Thomas Pennant's own copies of his 'Arctic Zoology' for the National Library of Wales curioustravellers.ac.uk/the-downing-...

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We don't want our project on Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant to be a catalogue of species lost to Wales

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In our first research blog of 2025, @edwinrose.bsky.social tells the story of his efforts (across multiple time zones) to secure one of Thomas Pennant's own copies of his 'Arctic Zoology' for the National Library of Wales curioustravellers.ac.uk/the-downing-...

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Day 1 at @bsecs.bsky.social #BSECS2025 complete. My talk for @curioustravellers.bsky.social went well, standing room only in the seminar room, and great to be talking about #ThomasPennant and his #NaturalHistoryCollections (OK, I maybe mentioned #GilbertWhite once...twice max 😜)

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Back at my desk after a restful Christmas and it's going to be a busy year! First up is @bsecs.bsky.social #BSECS2025 conference this week. I'm presenting on Wednesday for @curioustravellers.bsky.social & @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, so I'm glad my paper has come together really nicely today!

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Shwmae pawb! 👋 Pecyn cychwynnol ar gyfer ecoleg, bywyd gwyllt a chadwraeth yng Nghymru! // A starter pack for ecology, wildlife, conservation and more in Wales 🌿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐧⛰️ Please let me know if you'd like to be included on this list, or suggestions for others to include. Diolch! 🐌 go.bsky.app/MeJG8QH

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Hello Bluesky! This is the new account for the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. CAWCS is a dedicated research centre conducting team-based projects on the languages, literatures, culture and history of Wales and the other Celtic countries. Follow us to learn more.

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Helo bawb! Dyma gyfrif newydd Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru. Mae'r Ganolfan yn cynnal prosiectau cydweithredol ar ieithoedd, llenyddiaethau, diwylliant a hanes Cymru a’r gwledydd Celtaidd eraill. Dilynwch ni i ddysgu mwy am ein gwaith. #AstudiaethauCeltaidd

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'Ceubren yr Ellyll' (The Demon's Hollow) was a decrepit, haunted oak tree in Nannau, north Wales Associated with Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr's supposed killing of the treacherous Hywel Sele. The victim's skeleton was said to have been found, decades later, hidden in the tree #WyrdWednesday

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We're proud to be working with BSECS to support #18thC ECRs. See below for more on their new award...

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My new book is out in the world! It advocates a new, regional way of thinking about Scottish literature and Romanticism. It’s been a labour of love that’s seen me through two babies and a global pandemic, can’t wait to hear what people take from it 🙏 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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We'd recommend Edward Pugh's one of Parys Mountain mines on Ynys Môn!

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Druidic recycling in eighteenth-century Wales #C18th Thomas Pennant, in his 'Journey to Snowdon' (1781), is disappointed to discover that some 'Druidical' monuments have been put to a more practical use...

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Croeso/Fàilte/Welcome new followers! Here are some of our recent research blogs to get a taste of the project. First, travel writer Julie Brominicks on strange going on near a sacred Welsh well

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A warm welcome on Bluesky to @edwinrose.bsky.social, whose book 'Reading the World' is going to change much of how we think about Thomas Pennant and the practise of C18th natural history. And a pretty cover, too! bsky.app/profile/edwi...

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Liz Edwards of the Curious Travellers project speaking at CECS in York tomorrow (November 12th)! ‘Home Circuits: Queer Temporalities and Welsh Landscapes’ www.york.ac.uk/english/abou...

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Delighted to be included in this starter pack - scholars of travel and exploration, let's find each other!

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Curious Travellers 2 is creating digital editions of Thomas Pennant’s Welsh and Scottish tours—but don't forget our existing open access Curious Travellers editions! Correspondence and tours by Pennant, Anne Lister, the Ladies of Llangollen, Hester Piozzi, and more editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk

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William Gilpin's 'Observations on the River Wye' (published 1782) was "Britain’s first tour guide", says the Telegraph. Thomas Pennant, Welsh author of two tours in Scotland and two volumes of Welsh tours (1771-1781) might have something to say about that! 😉 www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...

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"Three reptiles appeared [on Arran] very unexpectedly: the naked black snail, the common and the striped shell snail: not volunteer inhabitants, but probably brought in the sallads of some visitants from the neighboring shores." Thomas Pennant, 'Tour in Scotland, 1772'

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Thomas Pennant describes how, in spring and fall each year, the farmers of the Isle of Arran gathered for a medical bloodletting by the Duke of Hamilton's surgeon: "[they] extend their arms; and are bled into a hole made in the ground, the common receptacle of the vital fluid"

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We all need a warty lizard in our Friday feed 🦎

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