Reposting my #Introduction because there's a flurry of new folks -- and I'm an eternal optimist at finding fellow Welsh writing in English peeps. So here goes:

I work as the Community Outreach Officer for the Welsh Dictionary of Biography, more collquially called the #Bywgraffiadur, at the #NationalLibraryOfWales. Our goal is to close representational gaps and set the Dictionary on a course of recording the diverse lives of historical Welsh people in all their facets. https://biography.wales/

Otherwise, I'm working on #WelshWritingInEnglish mostly from the long #C19. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. I'm also into #PublicHistory and community outreach, sometimes abt #PortHeritage, #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.

I share longer #WiP here: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/

Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.
#Histodons

It's publishing day!
If you've always wondered how the last invasion of Britain (which took place in Wales in 1797!) panned out in fiction, here's my two-cents worth in the shape of an #OA article:

"‘[A] very improbable and imaginative fiction’: Fictionalising the French invasion of Fishguard"'

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03061973241295331

I know we're all a bit preoccupied with goings on in the States and whether they elect to remain a democracy or abolish it. But nevertheless, here's my humble attempt at a diversion.

I've just dotted the i-s and crossed the t-s for my introduction to the latest Honno Welsh Women's Classics volume. And because I'm in a celebratory mood, here's an extract from said intro in which I discuss the role of the Black servant Yarico and her significance for #Victorian literature set in rural #Wales

#WelshWritingInEnglish #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #Literature #Writing

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/entanglements-of-empire/

Once again the #anniversary of the #Fishguard Invasion of 1797, aka the last invasion of the British mainland by a foreign army, is upon us.

I currently have an article in preparation with Literature & History. So while they are getting it ready for publication later this year, enjoy this #OpenAccess pre-print version now. In this article, I discuss three #Victorian historical novels about the invasion and their radically different outlook.

#Wales #histodons #LitStudies #HistoricalFiction #WelshWritingInEnglish

Direct download of the paper:
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:63597/

Long read on my blog, if you don't want to download:
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/a-very-improbable-and-imaginative-fiction-fictionalising-the-french-invasion-of-fishguard/

I now also have a parallel account for the more #academic output and networking over on @_bydbach_@hcommons.social where I will focus on my work on #LitStudies, #WelshWritingInEnglish and #CulturalStudies. I'll stick around this one though because I don't want to miss what's going on in tŵt land.
@litstudies @histodons @museum