Tag: Merioneth

Kenneth Rowntree paints Wales

March 7, 2025 1 Comment
Kenneth Rowntree paints Wales

In 1940 the government commissioned around sixty artists to record local scenes all over Britain, in order to capture a visual record of the country’s buildings and landscapes before they were transformed by the effects and aftereffects of war.  The scheme, labelled ‘Recording Britain’, became a home equivalent of the war artists scheme set up […]

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Pant Glas: a Meirionnydd commune in 1840

December 2, 2022 2 Comments
Pant Glas: a Meirionnydd commune in 1840

Barmouth was not the only place in Meirionnydd to host utopian settlements in the nineteenth century.  Fanny Talbot’s Ruskinian village there was preceded by a quixotic attempt to set up a socialist commune in a very different part of the region, Abergeirw. In Liverpool in 1839 a splinter group began to break away from Robert […]

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