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Enlightenment

The Long Life of Dic Siôn Dafydd and his ‘children’

Posted on 2 August 2025 by Keir Waddington

In her post, Dr Marion Loeffler, Reader in Welsh History, connects ‘Yma o Hyd’ (Still Here) to a history of satrical ballads that championed the Welsh language. In 2022, the […]

Collaboration across the pond: uniting histories of religious toleration in the American Revolution and European Enlightenment

Posted on 17 July 2025 by Keir Waddington

As part of their seed funding and teaching and research exchange through Cardiff University and the University of Wyoming’s hugely successful strategic international partnership, two historians of eighteenth-century America and […]

An empire for the Enlightenment: Britain, Quebec, and the American Revolution

An empire for the Enlightenment: Britain, Quebec, and the American Revolution

Posted on 11 December 2023 by Keir Waddington

As Ashley Walsh explains in this blog post, it is a counter-intuitive feature of the Enlightenment that it could be intolerant. We tend to associate the Enlightenment with religious toleration […]