A new blog by Elizabeth Edwards, with pictures from the launch event for our exhibition Greenfield Valley curioustravellers.ac.uk/launching-trav… Visit until the end of July, or buy our beautifully illustrated catalogue online! (£3.50 + Postage) shop.wales.ac.uk/product/travel…

New research blog from Rhys Kaminski-Jones (@rhyskamjones.bsky.social), on Wales's relationship to Palestine - from Thomas Pennant in the eighteenth century to the present day. ‘Just a Little Below Gaza’: Thomas Pennant, Wales, and (almost) Palestine curioustravellers.ac.uk/just-a-little-…

Catch up with our latest community fundraising and volunteer crowdsourcing events for the Curious Travellers 2 project - with thanks to Whitford Church and NLW Volunteering! curioustravellers.ac.uk/fundraising-in…

Congratulations @BatGirlSteph78!! And thanks as always for lending your specialist White knowledge to our project

A new post about some of the supposed benefits of travel in the early modern period - dralun.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/sho… #twitterstorians #travelhistory #histmed

Our author, Thomas "Scrooge" Pennant - a big fan of three-year-olds working for a living (Whitehaven workhouse, 1772)

Our blog for June features the stunning artworks created in collaboration between Sean Harris and the pupils of Ysgol Y Llan, Whitford Natural history illustrations and kaleidoscopic projections mix in the hushed darkness of St Mary and St Beuno's church curioustravellers.ac.uk/curlews-by-can…

Another for our collection of Stories People Tell About Stones! The dog is of course chewing some foliage. More about this effigy in Gresham, Med. Stone Carving in N Wales, 182-5.

New Project Publication! Our special issue of 'Studies in Romanticism', on 'Romanticism, Travel, and the Celtic Languages'. Currently free and open-access, so read without delay! We'll also be having an official launch event at the 2024 British Association for Romantic Studies conference in Glasgow

My collaborative article with Mary-Ann Constantine on Wordsworth and the Welsh language now out with Studies in Romanticism, and FREE for 30 days. See inside for terrible Welsh spelling, hidden Welsh subtext, and Wordsworth almost getting stabbed in Sir Drefaldwyn

Cynhadledd: 'Teithwyr Chwilfrydig, Teithwyr Cartref' Yn y Drwm, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth ar Ddydd Gwener, 20 Medi (10yb-5yp) Dewch i glywed am ein gwaith yn creu golygiadau digidol o Deithiau Thomas Pennant I archebu lle cysylltwch ag: [email protected]

Conference: 'Curious Travellers, Travellers at Home' Drwm, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Friday 20 September (10am–5pm) Hear about work in progress on digital editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours For more information and to book a place contact: [email protected]

Sign up for our hybrid day-conference on Thomas Pennant's 'Travels at Home' in eighteenth-century Wales and Scotland In Aberystwyth on Friday 20 September, follow the link for full programme and registration details! curioustravellers.ac.uk/curious-travel…

Cofrestrwch ar gyfer ein cynhadledd undydd 'Teithiau Cartref', ar deithlyfrau Thomas Pennant o'r ddeunawfed ganrif Yn Aberystwyth ar Ddydd Gwener 20 Medi, dilynwch y ddolen i weld y rhaglen a'r manylion cofrestru curioustravellers.ac.uk/2933-2/