Rhys Kaminski-Jones
@rhyskamjones.bsky.social
Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (Boydell, 2025)
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Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (Boydell, 2025)
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Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819
Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.
boydellandbrewer.com
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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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
🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨
I would love it if this 'Small Step Forward?' is the way David Stephenson is casually announcing that he has discovered that the medieval Welsh really did reach America in the new issue of Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I would love it if this 'Small Step Forward?' is the way David Stephenson is casually announcing that he has discovered that the medieval Welsh really did reach America in the new issue of Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies
Weird thing about Nick Cave is how he wrote an acerbic self-aware song about being a doomed embodiment of violent trad-colonial whiteness afraid of the modern world ('White Elephant' on 'Carnage') then pals around publicly with an apologist for Trump and Orbán etc like he's x10 stupider than he is
just two cool guys looking normal and alive, like humans
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Weird thing about Nick Cave is how he wrote an acerbic self-aware song about being a doomed embodiment of violent trad-colonial whiteness afraid of the modern world ('White Elephant' on 'Carnage') then pals around publicly with an apologist for Trump and Orbán etc like he's x10 stupider than he is
There being American Christian-right money going to UK fash makes sense to me re: Wales
Our most visible online fash presence Voice of Wales seem to be getting more vocally Christian on X, been pushing a (seemingly self-declared) US-trained 'Bishop' streaming sermons from what looks like an attic
Our most visible online fash presence Voice of Wales seem to be getting more vocally Christian on X, been pushing a (seemingly self-declared) US-trained 'Bishop' streaming sermons from what looks like an attic
Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out | Lamorna Ash
Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequences, says author Lamorna Ash
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
There being American Christian-right money going to UK fash makes sense to me re: Wales
Our most visible online fash presence Voice of Wales seem to be getting more vocally Christian on X, been pushing a (seemingly self-declared) US-trained 'Bishop' streaming sermons from what looks like an attic
Our most visible online fash presence Voice of Wales seem to be getting more vocally Christian on X, been pushing a (seemingly self-declared) US-trained 'Bishop' streaming sermons from what looks like an attic
Yeats is one of those guys you get annoyed with when you go back to teach him and remember he can actually write.
Fashy little eugenicist incel occult dabblers should not be allowed to do that.
Fashy little eugenicist incel occult dabblers should not be allowed to do that.
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Yeats is one of those guys you get annoyed with when you go back to teach him and remember he can actually write.
Fashy little eugenicist incel occult dabblers should not be allowed to do that.
Fashy little eugenicist incel occult dabblers should not be allowed to do that.
Genuinely enjoying my wife's ongoing transformation into a theory bro ("I was obviously Deleuze-ing before I even got into Deleuze, know what I mean?")
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Genuinely enjoying my wife's ongoing transformation into a theory bro ("I was obviously Deleuze-ing before I even got into Deleuze, know what I mean?")
I've managed to send myself into an insane obsessive rabbit hole over this, but I've brought some other people on the @carantes.bsky.social Dicord all the way with me so...that's ok?
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I've managed to send myself into an insane obsessive rabbit hole over this, but I've brought some other people on the @carantes.bsky.social Dicord all the way with me so...that's ok?
Reposted by Rhys Kaminski-Jones
anyway I could do with a bit more cash this month (lol who couldn't) & so here are a few things available on my website. as always super grateful for any shares!
shop.frankduffy.co.uk #art #printmaking #witchsky
shop.frankduffy.co.uk #art #printmaking #witchsky
November 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
anyway I could do with a bit more cash this month (lol who couldn't) & so here are a few things available on my website. as always super grateful for any shares!
shop.frankduffy.co.uk #art #printmaking #witchsky
shop.frankduffy.co.uk #art #printmaking #witchsky
Going to have to log off from this soon, but I think the fun thing about "(the) fae" overall that's come out is that it's simultaneously old (the form appears in Old French) *and* a very recent neologism (not used in English seemingly until the 80s/90s)
Something to please everyone!
Something to please everyone!
I guess this explains why people dropping "the fae" online like it's an ancient word for "fairies" felt like a neologism to me.
A new earliest instance brought to us by @coimeas.bsky.social, excepting the different plural form in the title - 'Quest of the Faes' (1985) by Catherine Geenen-Thrush!
Apparently written earlier than this by the author when she was 18. Not many more examples flooding in though
Apparently written earlier than this by the author when she was 18. Not many more examples flooding in though
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Going to have to log off from this soon, but I think the fun thing about "(the) fae" overall that's come out is that it's simultaneously old (the form appears in Old French) *and* a very recent neologism (not used in English seemingly until the 80s/90s)
Something to please everyone!
Something to please everyone!
Reposted by Rhys Kaminski-Jones
other than Catherine Greenen-Thrush's Quest of the Faes (1985, seems likely to be an independent early outlier), thus far it seems like the genesis of the term may be White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming in 1995?
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
other than Catherine Greenen-Thrush's Quest of the Faes (1985, seems likely to be an independent early outlier), thus far it seems like the genesis of the term may be White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming in 1995?
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
Excellent session with @carantes.bsky.social (thanks to @menysnoweballes.bsky.social and Siobhan Hyland!)
Remember to sign up for the @carantes.bsky.social lecture next Tuesday with @menysnoweballes.bsky.social!
🚗BEEP BEEP🚗
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Excellent session with @carantes.bsky.social (thanks to @menysnoweballes.bsky.social and Siobhan Hyland!)
Reposted by Rhys Kaminski-Jones
This section of Gerald of Wales' The Conquest of Ireland in which he praises his own family is essentially the Theme from Shaft.
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This section of Gerald of Wales' The Conquest of Ireland in which he praises his own family is essentially the Theme from Shaft.
Why is Llyr Powell's death threat claim (I'm sure there were ones!) in the headline, but not the police's counterclaim that he had a dedicated email route to report this and never did through that channel?
Reform UK's Caerphilly candidate Llyr Powell 'received 55 deaths threats' during campaign
Llyr Powell said his door was kicked in and described receiving verbal abuse and being spat at.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Why is Llyr Powell's death threat claim (I'm sure there were ones!) in the headline, but not the police's counterclaim that he had a dedicated email route to report this and never did through that channel?
I am still annoyed about "what if Frankenstein's monster only kills in self-defence" actually.
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I am still annoyed about "what if Frankenstein's monster only kills in self-defence" actually.
"Restoring Order and Control" would be a comedically authoritarian title choice if humor was appropriate
I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
Asylum and returns policy statement
This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Restoring Order and Control" would be a comedically authoritarian title choice if humor was appropriate
Cais swyddogol i newid cenedl y gair "daliaid" er mwyn cael "daliad dwym" fel cyfieithiad "hot take"
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Cais swyddogol i newid cenedl y gair "daliaid" er mwyn cael "daliad dwym" fel cyfieithiad "hot take"
Reposted by Rhys Kaminski-Jones
tomorrow!
Remember to sign up for the @carantes.bsky.social lecture next Tuesday with @menysnoweballes.bsky.social!
🚗BEEP BEEP🚗
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
tomorrow!
Reposting this for the weekday crowd in case more Persianists are about
Who on here can recommend me the best translations of Hafez? (needed for research, so relatively faithful with explanatory notes useful, but y'know - still actually poetry not translationese if possible!)
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Reposting this for the weekday crowd in case more Persianists are about
Reposted by Rhys Kaminski-Jones
ARMS EMBARGO ON THE UAE NOW
British weapons are fuelling Sudan’s genocide through arms exports to the UAE! End the massacres and forced starvation of the Sudanese people now!
✍️ SIGN THE PETITION:
caat.org.uk/sign-the-pet...
British weapons are fuelling Sudan’s genocide through arms exports to the UAE! End the massacres and forced starvation of the Sudanese people now!
✍️ SIGN THE PETITION:
caat.org.uk/sign-the-pet...
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
ARMS EMBARGO ON THE UAE NOW
British weapons are fuelling Sudan’s genocide through arms exports to the UAE! End the massacres and forced starvation of the Sudanese people now!
✍️ SIGN THE PETITION:
caat.org.uk/sign-the-pet...
British weapons are fuelling Sudan’s genocide through arms exports to the UAE! End the massacres and forced starvation of the Sudanese people now!
✍️ SIGN THE PETITION:
caat.org.uk/sign-the-pet...
My verdict: fun to look at, painful to think about
Guillermo del Toro asks, "What if the real Frankenstein is the friends we made along the way?"
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My verdict: fun to look at, painful to think about
Guillermo del Toro asks, "What if the real Frankenstein is the friends we made along the way?"
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Guillermo del Toro asks, "What if the real Frankenstein is the friends we made along the way?"
Such a ridiculous take I hope it was only written for the clicks
A man?? winning the Booker prize????? Is that even possible? It hasn't happened since the far-flung days of 2023. Our legends say that a man also won it in the ancient, prehistoric era of 2021, but surely that is just an old wives tale meant to frighten MFA students before bed.
The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction | Editorial
Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Such a ridiculous take I hope it was only written for the clicks
"...he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself 'I will never play the Dane'"
what’s your favorite line delivery
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"...he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself 'I will never play the Dane'"
Who on here can recommend me the best translations of Hafez? (needed for research, so relatively faithful with explanatory notes useful, but y'know - still actually poetry not translationese if possible!)
November 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Who on here can recommend me the best translations of Hafez? (needed for research, so relatively faithful with explanatory notes useful, but y'know - still actually poetry not translationese if possible!)
Commemorating a retaliatory killing in verse was "the seventh-century Arabian version of a selfie", apparently - please let me remember not to write this kind of thing when I'm an academic old enough to be automatically out of touch
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Commemorating a retaliatory killing in verse was "the seventh-century Arabian version of a selfie", apparently - please let me remember not to write this kind of thing when I'm an academic old enough to be automatically out of touch