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‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’ (Account Inactive, find us on Bsky)
Aberystwyth / Glasgow / London
Joined October 2014
Curious Travellers 2 is creating digital editions of Thomas Pennant’s Welsh and Scottish tours—but don't forget our existing Curious Travellers editions! Correspondence and tours by Pennant, Anne Lister, the Ladies of Llangollen, Hester Piozzi, and more.
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Liz Edwards of the Curious Travellers project speaking tomorrow at York!
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William Gilpin's 'Observations on the River Wye' (published 1782) was "Britain’s first tour guide" @Telegraph? Thomas Pennant, Welsh author of two tours in Scotland and two volumes of Welsh tours (1771-1781) might have something to say about that! 😉
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"Three reptiles appeared [on Arran] very unexpectedly: the naked black snail, the common and the striped shell snail: not volunteer inhabitants, but probably brought in the sallads of some visitants from the neighboring shores." Thomas Pennant, 'Tour in Scotland, 1772'
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Thomas Pennant describes how, in spring and fall each year, the farmers of the Isle of Arran gathered for a medical bloodletting by the Duke of Hamilton's surgeon: "[they] extend their arms; and are bled into a hole made in the ground, the common receptacle of the vital fluid"
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Edwin Rose (@EdwinRose3) points proudly at the author copies of Thomas Pennant's 'Arctic Zoology', which he recently helped @NLWales to acquire for their collection
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Talks from @StephHoltNH on Thomas Pennant's barnacles and birds stored at the Natural History Museum, and @rhyskamjones on Druidical remains and colonial comparisons in Pennant's Tours
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RT @StephHoltNH: @NHM_Library's Lisa Cardy on the crowdsourcing element of @cur_trav, an excellent example of the value and potential of #D…
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Croeso, @StephHoltNH!
I'm in Aberystwyth today for this years @cur_trav conference. It's a packed programme showing the wealth of research being undertaken on #ThomasPennant. I'll be talking later on my forthcoming part of the project on the Pennant collections at @NHM_London. #HistoryOfNaturalHistory
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Nigel Leask discussing Thomas Pennant's relationship to the Scottish (and, crucially, the under-appreciated *Gaelic*) enlightenment
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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
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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!
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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: a.elias@wales.ac.uk
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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: a.elias@cymru.ac.uk
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At ten to one, in the Hunterian Gallery, a launch for our special issue of 'Studies in Romanticism' and Mary-Ann Constantine's 'Curious Travellers' (with wine and music!)
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