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Written by Rita Singer on 2025-01-24 at 09:23

[#]EveryNamesCounts challenge 2025 at the Arolsen Archives starts today, 24 January.

Even if you're not a #DH nerd, you can contribute a few minutes of your life this week to help transcribe a handful of documents and build the world’s largest digital memorial to the victims and survivors of #Nazism.

[#]histodons #NoPasaran

https://everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org/en/

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Written by Rita Singer on 2025-01-24 at 08:59

'She later added that there was a "recognition" that more support needed to shift to the community and that more preventative work needed to be done.' -- ::stares back in heritage, culture and sport::

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyw75nzg4ko

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Written by Rita Singer on 2025-01-23 at 16:39

I'm in the middle of tagging up our next article for the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur and the author's very diplomatic turn of phrase -- 'who became his model, and more' -- just gave me a good chuckle.

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Written by Rita Singer on 2025-01-22 at 20:22

This one is for the experimental cooking crowd who love to work with historical recipes. This one is an 80+ galleon soup from Holyhead, #Wales, in 1858 -- but recalculated for cooking in a normal-sized kitchen and pots that are smaller than a caboose.

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/the-cry-of-the-hungry-a-soup-kitchen-for-victorian-holyhead/

[#]histodons #FoodHistory #Poverty #Charity

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Written by Rita Singer on 2025-01-22 at 12:30

I'm in the middle of marking up the latest article for the #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur about the jeweller and trader Morris Wartski and there's the casual mention that the Marquess of Anglesey attended the lavish wedding of Wartski's daughter in 1903.

Doing the maths, it wasn't just any marquess, but that Marquess -- who was not only a good customer, but had also helped Wartski to set up his business.

Oh, to have been privy to the conversations of an observing man (who helped set up the first synagogue in Bangor!) and the man who makes David Bowie look like someone who wasn't trying hard enough.

[#]JewishHeritage #LGBTQI #QueerHistory #Histodons #Wales

Images:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartski#/media/File:Wartski_Bangor.JPG

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Paget,_5th_Marquess_of_Anglesey.jpg

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Written by Rita Singer on 2025-01-17 at 10:19

When you work in a national copy library and stumble on the interwar children's lit stack.

[#]bookstodon #Comics #DonaldDuck

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Written by Rita Singer on 2025-01-16 at 17:04

This is a test -- depositing my original draft with KCommons Works.

SHOSHI MUKHI DAS (1868-1921), missionary in the Calvinistic Methodist Foreign Mission in India

https://works.hcommons.org/records/8xny4-g2b05

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Written by Rita Singer on 2025-01-03 at 12:03

Another milestone on the road to publishing day achieved: finished reading my way through the printer proofs -- 500+ pages and a few more footnotes added.

If in the meantime you'd like to find out more about this Welsh social novel from 1860, here's a link to a section from the introduction's draft version.

[#]WelshWritingInEnglish #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #Literature #Writing

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/announcing-the-37th-honno-welsh-womens-classics-volume/

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-12-19 at 07:19

Did you know the big hulking, 6-foot tall Grand Sword in the National Eisteddfod is actually German?

Here's the backstory why that is.

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/hubert-von-herkomer-1849-1914-painter-designer-and-film-pioneer/

[#]ArtHistory #Biography #histodons #Germany #DiversityProject #Wales

Image credit: Geoff Charles, National Library of Wales

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-12-16 at 16:11

On the subject of Herkomer and the Gorsedd, this #cartoon hits hilariously close to the mark.

[#]TheyReTheSamePicture

[#]Wales #Eisteddfod #Victorian #Humour

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3256369/3256370/6/

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-12-16 at 13:26

As one of my last assignments for 2024, I just finished writing my fourth article for the #Bywgraffiadur. The short version is currently in the hands of our main editor -- the long version, complete with an avalanche of images is waiting on my blog.

So if you ever wondered why a German artist created the 6-foot sword in the National #Eisteddfod in #Wales, look no further.

I give you Hubert von Herkomer: the man who married his wife's nurse, and his wife's nurse's sister.

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/hubert-von-herkomer-1849-1914-painter-designer-and-film-pioneer/

[#]ArtHistory #Biography #histodons #Germany #DiversityProject

Image credit: Southampton City Art Gallery

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-12-15 at 19:26

Does anyone know of any papers on the German #children's show #Sandmännchen and its totally casual approach to diversity and inclusion?

Exhibit A: the biracial lesbian mothers going camping with their two kids.

In other episodes you have kids with different disabilities, ethnicities or faiths hanging out with each other and doing everyday stuff. The take home message is always the same: be kind.

Also, every episode is available with German Sign Language.

[#]MediaStudies #pedagogy #TVShows #CulturalStudies #disability #lgbtq

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-12-13 at 09:01

Check out this cute cartoon in the Weekly Mail from 24 August 1907, covering the #Swansea National #Eisteddfod taking place the previous week. The issue also contains a great collection of photo portraits of people involved in front and behind the scenes.

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3444050/3444051

[#]Wales #Newspaper #OpenAccess #Histodons

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-12-11 at 08:27

Check out the Dictionary of Welsh Biography's new interactive timeline!

Did you know that the Black coal merchant Cesar Picton, the Ladies of Llangollen and the Hawai'ian chiefess Elizabeth Peke Davis Kaumualii were all alive at the same time? What's their link, you ask? They're all people in Welsh history!

Browse the timeline for all the names connected to our #DiversityProject. Some of these names still don't have an article. If you want to write their life stories, get in touch: rita.singer@library.wales

https://js.histropedia.com/sheets/?id=1kax1hmRL-aKDUM6-FNHEI5E8p3PUj96PkBUeUbwlWYI&colourCode=Gender|Published&filter=Gender|Published

[#]Wales #histodons #digitalhumanities #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #LGBTQ #AgeOfRevolutions #Bywgraffiadur #Humanities

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-12-10 at 13:21

Following from my earlier post about Ada Evans of Newcastle-Emlyn, here's the next part in how she became the famous writer 'Allen Raine'. In this second part, I'm sketching the scope of her work and set it in context of her own life.

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/allen-raine-soft-power-rebel-part-2/

[#]Literature #LitStudies #Novel #histodons #Victorian #humanities #WelshWritingInEnglish #Wales

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-12-05 at 15:00

And now, four months later the Messiah pops up in another article and drags three of his disciples along. It's going to be a long day of creating IDs.

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-12-05 at 09:48

Meanwhile in #Wales discussions about how to offer relief against car over crowding in the national park hits on the old nugget of building more carparks rather than investing into #PublicTransport (you know that thing that decongests AND offers employment).

[#]CarNation #ClimateAction

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/erthyglau/c774p5ggpd4o

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-11-26 at 16:59

Top tip for authors who need to compile a bibliography as part of their submission:

if the library or archive catalogue offers you a stable URL, always err on the side of caution and include it. It makes your editor's life a lot easier when trying to wrangle (archival) titles, reference numbers and any other descriptors into the publication's house style.

[#]editing #SometimesItCanAgeYou

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-11-25 at 14:06

Have you heard of Allen Raine, one of #Wales's all-time best-selling authors?

If not, I've written a little biographical primer. This is the first of three parts in which I am looking at Allen Raine's Unitarian upbringing. The next installments will cover her literary output and the importance of music for her writing.

[#]Literature #LitStudies #Novel #histodons #Biography #Victorian #humanities

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/allen-raine-soft-power-rebel-part-1/

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Written by Rita Singer on 2024-11-21 at 09:18

You know what's really nice?

Receiving emails that start with a greeting in a language you don't speak.

International collaborations are good for the heart and soul.

[#]Bywgraffiadur #Wales #Humanities #histodons

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