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Our work mapped Wales' literary heritage, and now are seeking to undertake primary market research into fantasy-themed video gaming preferences. This will inform the adaptation of Welsh myths as the basis for video game content: https://t.co/2e8NNj74Da

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2020-10-21

Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones was born in 1742.
His most famous work "The Bard" (1774) is based on Thomas Gray’s poem and depicts final bard cursing Edward I's invaders before leaping into the "endless night"
National Museum Wales

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2020-09-26

Laver is part of Wales' cultural and natural heritage and has been collected here for centuries.

Pressed laver specimens show the original red colour. Once made into laverbread, the green pigment shows through

More: https://t.co/1PabmTu6Ia

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2020-09-09

In 387 AD, a saint was born in Banwen, high in Wales' Dulais Valley.

He would become the Celtic world's most iconic figurehead.
Every March, he is celebrated in towns and cities across the world.

To his adopted Irish home and kin, he is known simply as Saint Patrick.

THREAD 👇

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2020-07-14

'The Green Bridge of Wales', 30x20inch, oil.
The dramatic Green Bridge of Wales is a natural arch formed from limestone in Pembrokeshire's National Park, here in west Wales.

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2020-06-12

🦑The Vermont myths differed little from the fauns, dryads & satyrs; & the wild Wales's dark hints of strange, small & terrible hidden troglodytes & burrowers. Or startlingly similar to the dreaded Mi-Go or “Abominable Snow-Men” who lurk in the Himalayan peaks🎨Jason Engle🦑#HPL

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2020-05-03

A birthday gift for a very good friend & one of biggest fans on tumblr. Happy Birthday to my friend Ana, aka Livehorses :)

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2020-03-20

Happy get 50% off any book in the 'Gender Studies of Wales' series with the code DEWI20 https://t.co/ZUJ24MZWV8

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2020-03-08

Who Is Your Hero?
A Facebook fundraiser by Australian comedian Celeste Barber has raised over $30 million for New South Wales' volunteer firefighters, providing them with some much-needed help during Australia's bushfire crisis.
https://t.co/f9E3n3joeL

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2020-01-08

🦑The Vermont myths differed little from the fauns, dryads & satyrs; the wild Wales's dark hints of strange, small & terrible troglodytes & burrowers. Or startlingly similar to the dreaded Mi-Go or “Abominable Snow-Men” who lurk amid the Himalayas🎨Aaron Sims Creative🦑#Lovecraft

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2019-12-15

“People said, ‘You shouldn’t be teaching that.’ Why not? It happened. Children should be aware.”

Betty Campbell was Wales's first black headteacher. Continue her legacy by teaching Black History: https://t.co/4HEDZG4S5r

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2019-10-12

'Green Bridge of Wales', 30x20inch, oil.
The dramatic green bridge of Wales, a wonderful natural cliff structure near Castlemartin, in

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2019-10-10

Ah yes

The House of Wales' hair style

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2019-09-29

Diolch yn fawr Literature Wales for supporting a wonderful event on in August in Polio and Epilepsy could have broken Kyffin, but he rose above to become Wales' most loved artist: https://t.co/w43k9pOTb1

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2019-06-10

'Green bridge of Wales', 30x20 inch, oil - A natural cliff structure near Castlemartin on the Pembrokeshire coastline in west Wales.

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2019-05-10

Read the story about the life of Kate Roberts the 'Queen of our Literature', one of Wales' best-loved authors who was born in Rhosgadfan, in 1891 to a slate miner and his wife who struggled to make ends meet on their small 'tyddyn', Cae'r Gors.

➡️https://t.co/OGe1CwQb1m

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2019-04-04

Join us at the opening of 'Then+Now: 80 Years of Collecting' Fri 8th Feb 5pm-7pm. Includes work by some of Wales' leading painters, sculptors and filmmakers from the 1930s to the present day including Gwen John, Alfred Janes, Tim Davies and Shani Rhys James.

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2019-02-03

The Williams-Wynn family of Wynnstay in Denbighshire emerged as one of Wales's wealthiest in the early 18th century, a status they were to retain for over two hundred years!

Discover more about their life
➡️ https://t.co/WcUEipTmfK

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2018-11-24

The Princess of Wales's Parakeet illustrated by Elizabeth Gould (1804–1841) for John Gould’s. Birds of Australia (1972 Edition, 8 Volumes). Digitally enhanced from our own facsimile book. Grab this image for free at https://t.co/L89Ueacx5E

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2018-06-28

Sad news! Mihangel Jones one of Wales' much loved artists sadly passed away on the 22nd March 2018 He will be greatly missed by all at Ffin y Parc. Sleep well my old friend! x

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2018-03-24