Rhys Kaminski-Jones

Joining the commonwealth?!?!

I'll allow people's conversion not being Mwng in cases of a language barrier

Few people been proven more right than Colin McArthur writing in 2003 that it was a proto-fascist film

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - Book Launch | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

Naval surgeons, theatre cleaners, and Ozzy Osbourne - some of the talks we'll be giving at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Sat 21st March for our next launch event. Book via the link: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

My thought today from the eighteenth century editing mines is that we should still spell rabbit "rabbet", it fits better

Isn't that basically what Knausgård is though? (I don't know, I'm a philistine who won't commit to that many huge volumes of a book called basically "Mein Kampf" as a joke)

Picture of an underground passage, credit to Ioan Lord.

Join us in @librarywales.bsky.social to celebrate Aberystwyth as Wales's first City of Literature: Underscapes (March 12th, 1:30-6pm)

An afternoon of creative and historical presentations discussing peatlands, mining, and soil. Please register for free by Monday, 9 March (a.elias@cymru.ac.uk).

Llun o dramwyfa danddaearol gan Ioan Lord.

Ymunwch â ni yn @librarywales.bsky.social i ddathlu Aberystwyth fel Dinas Llên gyntaf Cymru: Tirweddau Tanddaearol (Mawrth 12fed, 1:30-6yh)

Prynhawn o gyflwyniadau creadigol a hanesyddol yn trafod mawn, mwyngloddio, a phridd. Cofrestru erbyn Llun, 9 Mawrth (a.elias@cymru.ac.uk).

I know that this is mostly just an "English place name" problem, but he looks so much like that he makes "Wetherby and Easingwold" sound fake

Though I have seen "But the Old Testament Jews did slavery the right way, not like us" from an 18th/19th century abolitionist

A sweaty-faced slab of pale pink landed wealth in a three piece suit with an oily cowlick fringe curl and a disgusting blue striped tie. Looks like he just shot his groundsman. Caption: Alec Shelbrooke, the Conservative MP for Wetherby and Easingwold, seen here in 2018, accused Ali of ‘protesting in support of the ayatollah’. Photograph: Mark Kerrison/Alamy

That's not a real person, surely? That's "Tory MP but make it extra Wodehouse" in an AI image generator. That's "Boy" Mulcaster from Brideshead Revisited with a mobile phone.

Not often you spend a pleasant, intellectually stimulating evening learning about Irish battlefield decapitations (@emmettaylor.bsky.social can give you...many examples)

Sibyl was the first I thought of, but a skim seemed to suggest that the strongest racialisations were the industrial rather than rural working class (although a mining village is complex one to categorise there) Don't know Ainsworth at all, will take a look - thanks hugely for the wide selection!

Thanks!

Thankyou! Yes, "negative" in the sense of examples where there's connection between purported civilizational backwardness and (phenotypical) racializing tropes - an English "peasant" equivalent to the miners in Disraeli's 'Sibyl', say

I've not thought of racialization in Bloomfield when I've read him, will have to go back to that!

Thanks! In some of the Scottish/Welsh-set examples above (Scott, Lockhart, Roche etc) is that with specifically English lower-class characters?

Just about any symbolic hierarchy becomes susceptible to racialization 1800-1900ish - it's what makes pinning down the extent of the role which "Celtic" aspects play so complicated at times!

Good point, ages since I looked at that

Thankyou! I wondered if I might have to delve into more Dickens...

The combination with idealisation is v true of the Welsh examples that led me to this question (I'm thinking broadly of the extent to which questions of national/Celtic racialization actually make a difference in the "Wales novel")

*fictional English examples

Nineteenth-centuryists (#C19th) - I'm looking for novels in the first half of the century where the rural English poor are racialized as "savage", "dark" etc. I know English rural examples from journalism/non-fiction, and fiction about the urban and "Celtic" poor, but fictional examples useful!

If it helps, I know from personal experience you also realise you're you're dad without kids

Ha! Heb glywed hynny ers meityn

Odd Nain yn y Gogledd dim ond yn deud "Brenin Jorj" a "Rrresgob" cofiwch - rhegi Anghydffurfiol

Ffermwyr yn deud bod nhw'n mynd i "sbaddu ti gwboi"

Cadw llygaid ar y da byw a'r stiwts Cymreig, rhag ofn

Partner of sitting Labour MP among three arrested on suspicion of spying for China Exclusive: David Taylor, the husband of Joani Reid, MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven, named as one of those arrested

Rhwydwaith o ysbiwyr ar gyfer Tsieina ym... Mhowys a Phont-y-clun?!

HMS Owen Glendower - Wikipedia

Well na'r "HMS Owen Glendower"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Owe...

"We only want immigrants with qualifications who participate in our institutions. No, not like that"