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An anatomy of early Welsh tourism

May 2, 2025 2 Comments
An anatomy of early Welsh tourism

How many tourists visiting Wales today, I wonder, ever think about their early predecessors?  I mean those who first arrived, in surprisingly large numbers, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  How many are aware that these travellers, rather than composing Instagram posts, blogs and TikTok videos, would most likely have busied themselves drawing […]

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Iain Sinclair goes home

July 19, 2015 2 Comments
Iain Sinclair goes home

Urban is his element, and London his patch. But now, in his early seventies, Iain Sinclair has come home to his native Wales for his latest book, Black apples of Gower. For someone who’s followed the path of his wanderings and writings for years – I joined the trip late, with White Chappell, scarlet tracings […]

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