WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
#WelshHistory
Aberystwyth's announcement of the project:
https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2025/11/title-285017-en.html
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
Rebecca wasn’t just angry—she was right. In 1840s Wales, tollgates bled poor farmers dry.
So “Rebecca and her daughters” rose up. They wore dresses. They smashed gates. They demanded justice and they won reforms.
A riot? Yes.
A turning point? Absolutely.
#RebeccaRiots #WelshHistory #CymruAmByth #Cymru #Wales #WestWales
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
#OTD in 1553, Arthur Bulkeley, Bishop of Bangor, died. A reformer and scholar, he made history as the first bishop of Bangor to live there and he ordered his priests to preach in Welsh...
https://bit.ly/4bTLYcH
#TudorHistory #TudorWales #WelshHistory
HT @rmblaber1956 !
"Early poems about #Merlin portray him as #environmentalist, say scholars
Re-examination of #Welsh poems dating back to 10th century show #Myrddin as prophet concerned by human interactions with #Nature
by Steven Morris
Tue 25 Feb 2025 07.13 EST
"He is probably most often thought of today as a wizard, a shape-shifter or a mentor to the young King Arthur.
"But a detailed re-examination of Myrddin – Merlin – by Welsh scholars suggests he can also be considered an early British environmentalist deeply worried about human interaction with the natural world.
"Over the past three years academics from three Welsh universities have edited and translated more than 100 poems, all in Cymraeg (Welsh), about Merlin dating back as far as the 10th century.
"David Callander, who is based at Cardiff University’s school of Welsh, said some of the conclusions of the Myrddin Poetry Project challenged the modern view of the figure."
Tagging
@sevmunro
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/25/early-poems-about-merlin-portray-him-as-environmentalist-say-scholars
#History #Poetry #WelshHistory #Magic #Nature #Magicians
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WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
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