Tag: Wales
Cof, dychymyg, enwau lleoedd
I’r Cymry mae enwau lleoedd yn bwysig. Bron bob mis adrodda’r cyfryngau ryw ffrae neu’i gilydd amdanyn nhw: Varteg (Saesneg) v Y Farteg (Cymraeg) neu, yn fwy arwyddocaol, Cwm March v Stallion Valley (bathiad anffodus newydd sbon). I’r rhan fwyaf o bobl pethau i’w trysori ydyn nhw, o achos eu bod yn cadw cof hanesyddol […]
Is it true that public services can’t cooperate?
Richard Sennett’s Together: the rituals, pleasures and politics of cooperation (2012) is one of those books that’s so full of acute observations, surprising examples and novel connections that it stays long in the memory and sparks all kinds of thoughts, months after an initial reading. Sennett is a distinguished US ethnographer, but part of the […]
Archives, libraries and the Heritage Lottery Fund
As government funding for memory institutions has declined – catastrophically in the case of regular capital finance for buildings, ICT infrastructure and collections purchase – the importance of the Lottery, and especially the Heritage Lottery Fund, as a funding source to those bodies has risen. What is the relationship between the HLF and those memory […]
Peter Lord: iconographer / iconoclast
On 23 May in the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea Peter Lord gave an illustrated talk as part of the launch of his new book Relationships with pictures: an oblique autobiography (Parthian, 2013). It was a remarkable performance. As ever with Peter you couldn’t fail to be aware of the depth of feeling underlying his […]