It's #UnicornDay & we've been saving this image of a 'unicorn skull' for this very day! It comes from an #ArichiveCollection of engravings possibly used by naturalist Thomas Pennant in connection with his publications.

📸 WCRO, CR2017/TP769/41

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Happy Wednesday! ✨

For our next post from the ‘Image of the week’ series we have Margaret Clifford’s tomb, engraving from Thomas Pennant's Tour from Downing to Alston Moor.

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Dewch i ddiwrnod 'Cocos a Glo' agoriadol ein harddangosfa newydd, yn Greenfield Valley (Treffynnon, Sir y Fflint) ar ddydd Sadwrn, 20 Ebrill

Siawns i ddathlu Diwrnod y Ddaear efo Thomas Pennant! Dilynwch y ddolen i weld y rhaglen lawn ar ein gwefan:

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This exhibition also gives a taste of the contents of our Principal Investigator Prof. Mary-Ann Constantine's forthcoming book - also called 'Curious Travellers'.

Published in July 2024, but available now to pre-order from Oxford University Press!

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A day of events to celebrate Earth Day

20 April 2024, 10.00-15.00

Coal and Cockles: Exploring the Dee Estuary Through Time’ lively talks to hands-on experiments and creative encounters, come and explore how the past has shaped the present and how it can inspire our future.

Datganiad i'r wasg ar gyfer ein harddangosfa newydd
Greenfield Valley. Rhannwch yn eang, os gwelwch yn dda!

Press release about our project's new exhibition Greenfield Valley. Please share far and wide!

Very happy and honoured to be part of this fantastic event next Saturday 🤩Please have a look at the programme to see what's on - looking forward to it!

This is going to be good!

Just read the accompanying book: beautiful images, insight into the colonial and industrial histories often hidden in the Welsh countryside, reflections on the environmental legacy of eighteenth-century natural history and fossil fuel extraction.

Our new exhibition is having a 'Coal and Cockles' themed opening day Greenfield Valley (near Holywell, Flintshire) on Saturday April 20th.

Come celebrate Earth Day with us and Thomas Pennant! Full programme can be found at our website:

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Reposting this for #WyrdWednesday - Find out the rather sinister things the villagers used to do with their chickens near the sacred well of St Tecla, in our second excellent blog from travel writer Julie Brominicks #WelshHistory

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What's the earliest example of someone (falsely!) claiming that Welsh has no vowels? Here's Horace Walpole in 1778 for starters

'Mr Pennant's Welsh tour...a patchwork of all sorts of shreds stitched together with unpronounceable words of DDwrr’s and no vowels'

Find out the rather sinister things the villagers used to do with their chickens near the sacred well of St Tecla, in our second excellent blog from travel writer Julie Brominicks #WelshHistory #FolkloreThursday

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Great article by Dr Freya Gowrley, on one of the eighteenth-century women whose natural history collections didn't get the same attention as Thomas Pennant's

See Edwin Rose on Channel 5 this Friday!

Our project research fellow Edwin Rose here, on an exciting collection of Charles Darwin's specimens!

Published with the Welsh revivalist Society of Cymmrodorion by Thomas Pennant, to promote 'the Knowledge of Nature, among the Descendants of the Ancient Britons'

The eighteenth-century Welsh revival was scientific, not just bardic!