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Jul 20, 2021 12 tweets 4 min read
"The Welsh-language community has always been multi-ethnic.

It was multi-ethnic at birth (it was a fusion between two components of Romano-British culture) and has remained so… there has never been a period when Welsh has not been multi-ethnic."

✍️ @seimon_brooks | THREAD ⤵️ The Severan Tondo or Berlin Tondo from circa 200 AD - a pain "The Roma of nineteenth-century rural Wales were by and large fluent…

Irish and English migrants to the towns of the industrialising south and north-east learnt Welsh in their thousands.

Jewish migrants who settled… where Welsh was the dominant language learnt Welsh." The Cyfarthfa ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil, during the Industri
Jul 18, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
“It appeared hours before Wales were due to play Denmark in the last 16 of Euro 2020.”

Emblazoned on the side of a building… the stunning mural… was widely praised for its artistic and societal merits.”

✍️ @asoundreaction | THREAD ⤵️ The “My Cymru My Shirt” Nic... "What is little known is that @unifycreative_ was inspired by what many Welsh football fans will tell you is one of the greatest photographs… of any football player, Welsh or otherwise – Wales defender, George Berry resplendent in his Admiral kit."
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