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...English-born, Cardiff organist using the self-appointed title ‘Professor of Music’. He claimed that ‘Hen Wlad fy Nhadau’ was not Welsh at all, but a plagiarised version of a folk song that had been enhanced by the English composer Thomas Dibdin: it was a ‘note for note’ forgery to which seditious, nationalistic Welsh words had been added. The ensuing...

...English. I knew little French. We walked through his city, mostly in silence. I was sharing my hotel room with a friend, so Guillaume and I had to be creative. Most of the gardens in Paris are surrounded by walls and gates, but we found a way into one. Here are a few lines from ‘To the Garden, at Night’, an attempt at a poem I sent Guillaume after I got home from...

...English missionary who went to Batswana in order to convert locals to Christianity. When Moffatt arrived among the Ewe (one of Batswana local tribes) to start his work of conversion, he started to study the local culture and beliefs but with ‘Christian Western eyes’. This tribe’s religious system was called Badimo, which in local language means ‘ancestors. During...

...English and European royalty, such as Queen Philippa of Hainault is now found in the Black Cultural Archives (Warner, 2019; Vernon, 2002). Other examples of key individuals in the Crusade such as knights, dukes and kings that are documented through forensic evidence and uncovered historical narratives are crucial contributions towards a more reliable account of history...