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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

Absolutely! I know of straightforward errors in hugely important/well respected books, we just need to give ourselves the same grace we give "big names"

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

He was around for that long?!

It's him saying out of nowhere he was going to shoot Tony Blair I mostly remember.

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

Diolch yn fawr!

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

If E. P. Thompson can seemingly hallucinate a significant source from out of his notes, we're definitely allowed some infelicities!

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

I'd been doing so well at not re-reading the thing before I ransacked it for teaching quotes! 😆

I'll always remember searching for days for a news article cited by E. P. Thompson during my MA, and my supervisor laughing when I told him and going "oh, you tried to find that too? doesn't exist"

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 8h

I would like to skip to the post-having-a-book-out stage where I don't have minor brain meltdowns when I spot something I could have worded a bit better, please and thankyou

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

Is there a more lying prefix than the "perma" in "permalink"?

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

Angen rhoi Y Gromlech yn yr Haidd nôl ar y cwricwlwm

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

Stealing Bronze Age jewellery from San Ffagan is real "going to get cursed" territory

Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 1d

If you are offered pieces of gold Bronze Age jewellery by a bloke down the pub, police in St Fagan’s would appreciate a call following a burglary at the National Museum Of History.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Police investigate break in at much-loved national museum

Museum officials after expressed their shock at the 'targeted attack'

www.walesonline.co.uk

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

The AI phone assistant IT now has just said "I'm connecting you to one of my human colleagues" and no, no, nonononono

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

And I'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that pesky Saxon barn

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

Ie, ddim eisiau gwneud "methu treiglo" yn ganolbwynt i'r ymosodiad serch hynny, gormod o bobl yn cydymdeimlo â hynny 😆

Mae gen i deipo uchod, tai gwydr a cherrig ayyb

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

Ie, mae'r treiglo'n anghywir, mae'n nhw wedi newid ar Twitter ond yn amlwg wedi archebu'r stwff yn barod 😆

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

Salazariaid Cymreig sy'n casau Saunders Lewis, am eironi

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

"Teulu, Gymuned, Gwlad" bois bach, ma' nhw ar fin sgwennu "Deus, Pátria e Família" yn y Gymraeg

Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 2d

How unlucky that a camera would "glitch", edit out one person and replace them with a giant walnut.

On the same day that photo was taken and the camera "glitched" it seems that a man named Stan Robinson from the group "Voice of Wales" was in Reform's Caerphilly office.

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

Why think of furries as a new internet thing when there's centuries of Scottish folklore about guys marrying seals?

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

True, but I also wouldn't employ Geoff at Citizen's Advice

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

No one has ever warned me against judging things by their covers, you see, should be an idiom about that probably

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

I had some kind of instinctive negative reaction to the solo album cover, am going to have to reconsider things!

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

Oh the Cameron Winter album is quite good actually. Harry Nilsson meets Jeff Magnum from Neutral Milk Hotel is something I wanted, turns out

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

Re: Spellbound, just an all round incredible credits still here

On a background of tree and stormy weather, script reads : dream sequence based on designs by Salvador Dali, psychiatric advisor Mary E. Romm M.D.

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

Penny sleeping through Hitchcock's Spellbound. No taste for the classics

A tabby cat sleeps on a red blanket in front of the black and white face of Gregory Peck on a laptop screen

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

"We must Retvrn to Twin Peaks! (i.e.white small-town America rotted to the core by demonic patriarchal sexual abuse)"

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

I hate Taylor Swift discourse time, because my main opinion about her music is deeply embarrassing (i.e. I quite like the one produced by the guy from The National, like your dad)

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

You'll have to check it with the local druid Gorsedd, they're quite territorial about unexpected uncanny rutuals

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