Activity – Rita Singer

Rita Singer's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Rita Singer wrote a new post, The last invasion of Britain wasn’t in 1066, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 1 month ago

Rita Singer, Aberystwyth University

It was an unusually warm and sunny morning when the people of Fishguard in north Pembrokeshire, Wales, arose on February 22 1797. Little could they have realised that over […]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, The Secrets Of The Welsh Coast | Britain By Beach | Channel 4, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Last June, I had the great good fortune to get picked up from home by a lovely taxi driver at the crack of dawn for a drive to Fishguard and a blustery documentary shoot around town. I had been invited by the […]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, English Liberties and Fairy Castles, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago

In other research news, I am working on an introduction for a special issue on minority languages and cultures and travel writing. Naturally, I overshot on content and cannot fit everything in. So instead of […]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, Heritage through the Lens, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 5 months ago

The other week I was invited by Margaret Boland Murphy of the Ireland-based Bofin Consultancy to contribute to the first of several workshops helping businesses in and associated with the visitor industry to […]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, Five Ports and Three Crossings, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago

Following two successful launches in Wales and Ireland for our feature-film At the Water’s Edge: Stories of the Irish Sea (2022), we have just released the segments detailing the ferry crossing experiences that […]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, Ports, Past and Present: Rosslare Harbour (2022), on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 9 months ago

At long last, the first of our series of community harbour fests took place in Rosslare Harbour, Ireland, on 17 and 18 June. The celebrations kicked off in the afternoon with a screening of David Begley’s […]
Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group History on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group English Literature on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
Rita Singer's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, Trailer: "At the Water's Edge: Stories of the Irish Sea" (2022), on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 11 months ago

It give me immense pleasure to share the trailer for our upcoming documentary film At the Water’s Edge: Stories of the Irish Sea (2022) that I have been working on with my Aberystwyth University colleagues, Peter […]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, Llafur Spring Series 2022 – Episode 1: Curious Travellers: Then and Now, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 11 months ago

On 10 March, I had the immense privilege to receive and invitation by Llafur: Welsh People’s History Society to join Prof Nathan Abrams (Bangor University) and Catrin Stevens (Women’s Archive of Wales) top open […]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, Of Cock Fights and Duels, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago

On 9 June 1783, Carl Gottlob Küttner spent a day in Holyhead discovering the town’s diversions during his wait for the next boat to Dublin.

Market place, Holy Head, Anglesea. A coloured engraving showing th […]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, Podcast: Heritage, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago

The other week, my colleagues from University College Cork (Ireland), James Smith and Claire Nolan, and I sat down for a conversation about all things heritage and what it means in the context of working with the […]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, What we did since last summer, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Leading up to our big public programme splash from May to October 2022, my lovely colleagues and I recently recorded an update on what we have been working on over the last year. Themes covered ranged from work […]
Rita Singer wrote a new post, King George IV’s Visit to Holyhead, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 1 year ago

Few events produced such excitement in this little town at the edge of the Irish Sea as the first royal visit in centuries; when King George IV was delayed on his journey to Ireland in 1821.

A detailed, […]
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Rita Singer

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