In the Footsteps of European Travellers in Wales

Rita Singer (Invited speaker)
Carol Tully (Invited speaker)
Heather Williams (Invited speaker)
Susan Fielding (Invited speaker)

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Description

Official Website Launch for 'Journey to the Past: Wales in Historic Travel Writing from France and Germany' at the Digital Past 2018 conference organised by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. The website presents nine themed trails to locations across Wales and combines the latest digital technology, such as a Virtual Reality experience of nineteenth-century Tintern Abbey, with historic travel writing in French, German, English and Welsh.

Period	08 Feb 2018
Event title	Digital Past 2018
Event type	Conference
Location	Aberystwyth, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

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For centuries, continental Europeans have come to Wales for numerous reasons. During the Romantic period some came seeking a rural idyll, whilst others in the Victorian era travelled as industrial spies, and during times of war many refugees escaped to Wales to find shelter from persecution. Not only have continental Europeans left their traces among the people of Wales by settling here, but they have also written extensively about their experiences in diaries, letters, books and magazines or novels. Follow along nine themed trails and discover Wales, its culture and people in an entirely new way. Through the eyes of these historical travellers, experience the country like you have never done before. Explore an ivy-covered Tintern Abbey, marvel at the fiery night-sky of Merthyr Tydfil and fall in love with some very unusual Ladies in Llangollen.

In the Footsteps of European Travellers in Wales

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Land of Forges and Fire: Merthyr Tydfil in the 1800s

Minoritised Languages and Travel

“Stock in der Hand / Löcher im Gewand / Wandern wir gar müßig / Durch das wunderbare Land”: Notes by European Travellers in Welsh Visitors’ Books

EuroVisions: Wales through the Eyes of European Visitors, 1750–2015

EuroVisions: Wales through the Eyes of European Visitors, 1750-2015

Von Hay-on-Wye nach Blaenau Ffestiniog: Elmar Schenkels Reisen in Wales, 1974–2010

Through Wales in the Footsteps of William Gilpin: Illustrated Travel Accounts by Early French Tourists, 1768–1810

Leisure, refuge and solidarity: messages in visitors’ books as microforms of travel writing

Project report: European Travellers to Wales, 1750–2010

A Picture of a Country: Illustrated Travel Accounts by Continental Europeans

Press/Media

Following the Red Thread West

What Euro visitors have thought of Wales in past 260 years

VR Has The Power To Let Us Visit The Past

Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit

Heno

Activities

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Diwylliannau ‘Lleiafrifol’ a Theithio / ‘Minority’ Cultures and Travel

A Picture of a Country: Illustrated Travel Accounts by European Travellers

For Wales, See England: German Visitors to Welsh Estates in the Nineteenth Century

Picturesque Wales?: Illustrated travel accounts by continental Europeans

European Travellers to Wales: A Short History of Picturing the Nation

Putting Wales on the Map: Using GIS to Uncover European Travel Routes, 1750-2016

Journey to the Past: Wales in Historic Travel Writing from France and Germany