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Rhys Kaminski-Jones

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Celtic Revivalism, Romantic Celticism, Celtic Imperialism. Research Fellow at the University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (August 2025) He/They/Fo/Nhw

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · Aug 19

Publication day!!

Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more

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Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819

Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 7h

This thought brought to you by half of the characters in Night of the Living Dead

Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 7h

Certain kinds of 50s-70s American accents I can only hear as voices from The Simpsons, they just don't sound real to me.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 7h

Unless this is what you're referring to in which case, I am glad someone else read that thing so we can commiserate

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 7h

You joke, but Mary Harrington literally made the argument that Normans are woke in Unherd recently

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 14h

(I hope it's obvious I mean "best" in the sense of "how on earth did you write and publish that"?)

Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 14h

The best thing he ever wrote, though, is the essay about going to the Robinson Crusoe island to get over his inferiority complex about David Foster Wallace and discovering that he is, in fact, better than his dead friend

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 14h

There's good bits in The Corrections

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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 19h

It's not Masquerade Monday, BUT! 'The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue' is now available for pre-order & you can get 25% off through Friday!

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If you think Bridgerton will be juicy, just wait til you get your hands on this 😏🤫 #18thc

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 20h

Sharpe's son turns up fighting for the Confederate cavalry for fun 🙃

I read it as a kid, so don't ask me for detail, but I feel more than icky about it now

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 22h

Subtweet? Me? Nooooo

Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 22h

I mean, Bernard Cornwall wrote an entire book series about the American Civil War with Confederate heroes so it's not like I have much faith in his judgement

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 1d

Not like I'm shedding any tears for Ian Watkins, mind, but I can't help thinking of a lot of other people sent to the cheap human warehouses where we basically let people kill each other.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 1d

I'm honestly not the biggest fan in general of the reaction "Woo! Isn't it great how easy it is to get stabbed in an underfunded prison!"

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 1d

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
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Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 2d

None taken!

Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 2d

(I say this as someone who has - in the wildly different context Of Welsh studies - been told that my saying I come from "West Wales" is a sign of my "colonised mindset" because I should say "south west Wales" 🙄)

Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 2d

The wider thing is that I think sometimes "decolonising the mind" can become "we must historically/ideologically de-complicate the symbolism and culture entirely so it all makes sense", and I think that can lead to dead ends

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! Re: 1790s-1840s, my gut feeling is that you won't really get early United Irish protestants using "Orange" positively, but that with the Ribbonism/Orangeism clashes in the C19th the colours get wider significance in the press, so by '48 it's worthwhile reappropriating orange. Guessing though 😆

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I do get the logical strangeness in the long historical view of having "Orange", inescapably monarchist and Anglo/Brit-colonial in its initial symbolism, appropriated to allow for the possibility of protestant republican Anti-British Irish nationalism, but that is what happened!

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 2d

Racking my brain trying to think of an example of protestant United Irishmen using "orange" positively in the 1790s (no Rhys, don't find a research rabbit hole for yourself...)

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 2d

I do now wanna read a study of "Orange" in Irish politics from the United Irishmen to 1848 tho. Obvs hanging the tricolour from the Wolfe Tone club in '48 is using orange to make a United Irish point, but that is interesting given relationship between the United Irish + Orange Order in the 1790s

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 3d

Mae'n dda, hefyd

Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 3d

Cydweli! Y Moathouse

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 3d

Belle and Sebastian moreso - Beat Happening were at least more confrontational in their tweeness