17th February 2008, 06:48 PM
Check out the National Library of Wales website - they are currently digitising every Welsh journal (AiW, Arch Camb, county societies, Welsh Hist Review, Studia Celtica, Llafur etc etc) for free access, and will roll them out from next month.
So all you Saeson (and Scots/Albanwyr, Mr Hosty!) who want to work in Wales will be able to read up all about Welsh history (which I believe you don't get taught in school) and, as a courtesy I hope, learn a bit of the language to keep the farmers on side (and to write the Welsh language summaries of course - official language, see?).
Where are the online versions of the CBA English regions, by the way? And DES has only just been uploaded onto ADS, so the moral high ground is just a ruck in the carpet - by this time next year, Wales will have put most, if not all, of its journals going back to 1900 online, with earlier stuff to follow. Another fact to be proud of I think, although not as viscerally exciting as beating England at Twickenham for the first time in 20 years... (I will tactfully skip over last weeks results, Mr Hosty, as you're clearly not a well man at the moment)
So all you Saeson (and Scots/Albanwyr, Mr Hosty!) who want to work in Wales will be able to read up all about Welsh history (which I believe you don't get taught in school) and, as a courtesy I hope, learn a bit of the language to keep the farmers on side (and to write the Welsh language summaries of course - official language, see?).
Where are the online versions of the CBA English regions, by the way? And DES has only just been uploaded onto ADS, so the moral high ground is just a ruck in the carpet - by this time next year, Wales will have put most, if not all, of its journals going back to 1900 online, with earlier stuff to follow. Another fact to be proud of I think, although not as viscerally exciting as beating England at Twickenham for the first time in 20 years... (I will tactfully skip over last weeks results, Mr Hosty, as you're clearly not a well man at the moment)