Research into the LGBTQ+ history of Wales
Proud Writing is a project run by LGBTQ+ author/historian Norena Shopland in collaboration with Cerian Wilshere-Davies, Youth Engagement Facilitator for Amgueddfa Cymru. The writing workshops consisted of an initial four sessions and proved so popular that additional sessions were added. Each workshop consisted of a short text taken from historic newspapers from Welsh Newspapers Online … Read More “Proud Writing free eBook” »
(For Welsh see below) Amgueddfa Cymru has been collaborating with Welsh LGBTQ+ Historian Norena Shopland to run a Creative writing project that focuses on creatively responding to pieces of Wales’ often hidden or forgotten LGBTQ+ history. We are inviting people to submit prose, poems, or artwork inspired by the four historic texts in this pack … Read More “Proud Writing Call Out:” »
Norena Shopland When considering a history of sexual orientation and gender identity in Wales we cannot always concentrate on items specifically related to the country and its people – for example, bestselling books would have been read throughout the UK. Bearing this in mind, I’ve taken a look at two books, one from the seventeenth … Read More “Queering Onania: some 17th and 18th-century sexual orientation and gender identity stories” »
“In 1130, Maredudd ap Bleddyn of Powys had his great nephew Llywelyn’s testicles removed and his eyes gouged out. It is unclear what offense Llywelyn had committed against Maredudd to merit this treatment, but events leading up to Llywelyn’s mutilation suggest that Maredudd feared that Llywelyn would become a threat to his own political power. … Read More “12th Century” »
1903 Source: Rhyl Record and Advertiser, 16 May 1903 For more on Percy Meye listen to Jane Hoy’s podcast 1904 Angus McBean, a Welsh photographer, was born on 8 June. In the spring of 1942, his career was temporarily ruined when he was arrested in Bath for criminal acts of homosexuality. He was sentenced to … Read More “1900s” »
1851 EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE. On the 28th last, at Llanfynydd, [Carmarthenshire] Sarah, the wife of Evan Jones, shoemaker, gave birth to a child which is a perfect hermaphrodite, and the registrar is consequently puzzled how to register it. The medical faculty have as yet failed to solve the problem submitted to them in this case. Had … Read More “1850s” »
