THERE are many precious objects cherished as jewels of Welsh civilisation from the prehistoric beads found on Llandudno's Great Orme to the parchment inscribed with the laws of Hywel Dda. There are the items of antiquity that reflect a distinctively Cymric culture. We're particularly good at furniture - from the oldest Welsh dresser dating from the mid-17th century, to Hedd Wyn's Eisteddfod chair.
ONE of the Midlands' historical gems is attracting huge interest after the worldwide publicity surrounding the Staffordshire Hoard. A 1,300-year-old Gospel manuscript, held at Lichfield Cathedral, is hitting the headlines as it has captured the imagination of historians, film-makers and the public.
IT sounds like a discovery made by one of her Famous Five characters. A yellowed manuscript, which had spent decades gathering dust, has been identified as a previously unseen novel by Enid Blyton.
THIS time the Books of the Year choices came up with one stunning result. Sure, there were plenty of mentions for Jonathan Franzen and Candia McWilliam. But the clear winner among British writers was a new face -- Edmund de Waal for his family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, which tells its story via a collection of Japanese netsuke that has been inherited through the generations. The tributes were almost embarrassingly profuse. In the Times Literary Supplement, the book was chosen over and over again. For once, sisters A S Byatt and Margaret Drabble could agree -- this was the book of the year. The military historian Michael Howard called it "the book, not only of the year, but of the decade ... a quite enchanting book, to be kept and reread by as many generations as it describes".
Only a few weeks ago, an old friend of the late Stieg Larsson, the author of the bestselling Millennium trilogy, revealed to the world the exact nature of the author's last, unpublished book. For months, there had been rumours regarding the very existence of the novel, the fourth book featuring the compelling double act of fearless investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the multitattooed, bisexual cybergoth Lisbeth Salander. The news that the unfinished novel is set in the remote Canadian outback of Sachs Harbour sent a wave of excitement through the entertainment industry. After all, with global sales of his books standing at somewhere between 35 million and 40 million copies, anything bearing Larsson's name is almost guaranteed to be publishing and box-office gold. At the end o...
An almighty row between the Cornish language movement and a Welsh academic institution over what have been described as underhand attempts to suppress the publication of an important medieval manuscript may soon be at an end. The 16th century document at the centre of the dispute is Bywnans Ke, a play based on the life of St Kea, a fifth-century monk whom legend claims solved a family argument involving King Arthur. Handwritten on vellum, it was discovered among the papers of the late Professor J E Caerwyn Williams in 1999. No one knows when or how the academic came to be in possession of the ancient script, and it seems he did not mention its existence to anyone.
An original musical manuscript written by Edward Elgar is to be revealed for the first time since the composer presented it to the Birmingham Oratory in 1902. Elgar's score of the Dream of Gerontius, dedicated to Cardinal John Henry Newman, will be performed at Birmingham Town Hall on September 18, a day before the Cardinal is beatified.
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AN ILLUMINATED 14th-century manuscript containing what is believed to be the oldest surviving account of the legends of King Arthur sold yesterday for more than pounds 2m. The Rochefoucauld Grail, a colourful illustrated account of the knights of the round table, Merlin and the Holy Grail, was sold by auction house Sotheby's in London.
TODAY, Glasgow spends millions on its Scotland with Style campaigns, but the city has the marketing genius of one 12th- century monk to thank for its first tourist boom. A manuscript detailing the exploits of St Mungo, which helped make the city a must-see pilgrimage destination across mediaeval Europe, will be unveiled to the public this week to mark the patron saint's feast day.
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