Rita Singer
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Rita Singer's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 hour, 51 minutes ago
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Rita Singer wrote a new post, Storymap 'Reflections: Ports, Past and Present', on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Earlier this year, my lovely colleagues Dr Ailbhe MacDaid and Dr James Louis Smith from over in UCC made it their mission to record some of our behind-the-scenes thoughts around the history and heritage […]
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Rita Singer's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Rita Singer wrote a new post, The last invasion of Britain wasn’t in 1066, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week 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 […]
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Rita Singer wrote a new post, The Secrets Of The Welsh Coast | Britain By Beach | Channel 4, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 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 […]
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Rita Singer wrote a new post, English Liberties and Fairy Castles, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 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 […]
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Rita Singer wrote a new post, Heritage through the Lens, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week 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 […]
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Rita Singer wrote a new post, Five Ports and Three Crossings, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks 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 […]
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Rita Singer wrote a new post, Ports, Past and Present: Rosslare Harbour (2022), on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week 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 […]
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Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year agoHistorically, 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]
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Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 1 year agoHistorically, 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]
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Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 year agoHistorically, 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]
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Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group
English Literature on Humanities Commons 1 year agoHistorically, 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]
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Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year agoHistorically, 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]
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Rita Singer's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
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Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books on Humanities Commons 1 year 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]
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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 1 year, 1 month 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 […]
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Rita Singer wrote a new post, Llafur Spring Series 2022 – Episode 1: Curious Travellers: Then and Now, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month 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 […]
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Rita Singer wrote a new post, Of Cock Fights and Duels, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month 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 […]
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Rita Singer wrote a new post, Podcast: Heritage, on the site bydbach on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month 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 […]
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