‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London)
Histories of Enlightenment Travel
https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
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Ymunwch â’r Athro Mary-Ann Constantine o’r Ganolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd i ddathlu 300 mlynedd ers geni’r naturiaethwr a’r awdur teithio o Gymru, Thomas Pennant.
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Join Professor Mary-Ann Constantine of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Welsh naturalist and travel writer, Thomas Pennant.
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Thanks to the two intrepid editors of these tours, Nigel Leask and Alex Deans, here shown unveiling our new Pennant to the world!
Any ideas about the Ladies of Llangollen's 'powdery tallow candles' much appreciated!
Happy to report that we're full-up for our talks and launch in Edinburgh on Thursday, but there is a waiting list to join if you've been left disappointed!
Thomas Pennant's 300th birthday not going unnoticed in Sir y Fflint!
Please take a look at these beta versions of a selection of chapters from the 1769 and '72 Tours.
Feedback is very welcome before our full launch - if you have any follow the link below and get in touch
curioustravellers.ac.uk/contact-us/
After giving the audience at @natlibscot.bsky.social an exclusive preview, we are delighted to share the first taste of our editions of Thomas Pennant's Scottish Tours!
(Click on "Show Pennant's Tours" after following the link below)
editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/tours
Join us in @librarywales.bsky.social to celebrate Aberystwyth as Wales's first City of Literature: Underscapes (March 12th, 1:30-6pm)
An afternoon of creative and historical presentations discussing peatlands, mining, and soil. Please register for free by Monday, 9 March ([email protected]).
Join us at the National Library of Scotland (@natlibscot.bsky.social) for a presentation on Thomas Pennant and the Origins of Scottish Tourism - and the public launch of the first parts of our new online editions of Pennant's Tours!
Book for free via the link, 5:30-6:30 on Thursday June 4th.
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Learn about Thomas Pennant's natural history focussed tour of 1769 and the 1772 voyage to the Hebrides illustrated by images from artist Moses Griffith.
Join us at the National Library of Scotland (@natlibscot.bsky.social) for a presentation on Thomas Pennant and the Origins of Scottish Tourism - and the public launch of the first parts of our new online editions of Pennant's Tours!
Book for free via the link, 5:30-6:30 on Thursday June 4th.
Learn about Thomas Pennant's natural history focussed tour of 1769 and the 1772 voyage to the Hebrides illustrated by images from artist Moses Griffith.
Anyone have any idea what is going on with the candles in this early c19 account of 2 women walking, wearing 'vulgar long waisted blue riding habits, with beaver hats, and their powdery tallow candles hanging dangling down their backs'? The women in question are the so-called Ladies of Llangollen 🤔
A festival is being held to celebrate 300 years since the birth of overlooked Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant, who is said to have inspired Charles Darwin
Nation Cymru staff A festival is being held to celebrate 300 years since the birth of overlooked Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant, who is said to have inspired Charles Darwin. Organised by the Cymdeith...
