Rememberance,Retrospective and Revisionionary, Riot and Rebellion, Revelery and Re-enactment.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
ELIZABETH TAYLOR RIP HER PLACE IN WELSH HISTORY? WHY SHE MARRIED & DIVORCED RICHARD BURTON OF COURSE!
Welsh Media no doubt will consider this worth much attention, so Japan and Libya off the front pages, away you go to make way for Celebrity Wales Heaven!
Elizabeth Taylor evokes more images than the number of husbands she had. She was the breathtakingly beautiful child who – unlike her near contemporary, ...
You might consider it strange I post up a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, I do so not because I was an huge fan but because my parents were. In fact I guess it's true to say that I grew up in an household very much one that was 'Americanised' in it's popular culture, my father more so than my Mam. Dad was really into Hollywood Films particularly musicals of the 40's and post war same of screen and stage. Big bands and dancing was is thing but so too was sport; athletics and Rugby. It was Rugby that kept him Welsh throughout his life and in time due to my influence I guess that he became more interested in Welsh History. Vice versa I in time became interested in big bands and singing stars of his day plus Holloywood Film Noir. My Mam on the other hand was not so struck the same but she was a fan of Elizabeth Taylor and will be sad when I tell her she's died, it was Mam with her interest in historical biographies and 'Bodice Ripper' novels, ah Forever Amber! that got me keen on history, possibly on sex too after reading Forever Amber:
Forever Amber can refer to: Forever Amber (novel), a 1944 romance novel;Forever Amber (film), a 1947 film based on the novel; Forever Amber (band), ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Amber - Cached - Similar
This period fiction is very popular, thinking of Tom Jones, Moll Flanders and Fanny Hill etc. I do not know of any popular 'Bodice Ripper' fiction in Wales covering this period but there are Welsh period writters as Twn or Nant:
Twm o'r Nant was the pen name of Welsh language dramatist and poet Thomas Edwards (January 1739 – April 3, 1810). He was born in Llannefydd, Denbighshire, ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm_o'r_Nant - Cached - Similar
This is an arguement for more costume drama's on BBC WALES TV, why not Angel Mountain, I know I am repeating myself but there you go if you want listen to me what does BBC WALES expect. More nagging to come but in the mean time some really creative People who are fans of Angel Mountain should consider an annual Angel Mountain Living History Festival. I am sure that elements of the Cymru Cultural Scene would be up for that as well as Welsh Reenactors, think on it! In the mean time note I am thinking on my own Welsh Moll Flanders, based on a real Welsh popular heroine Moll Goch. Of course there is also Cap Goch an infamouse Welsh Serial Killer.
Does any one know the exact location of the New Inn of Cap Coch fame by the ...Cap Coch was the licensee of the New Inn which stood n a hollow on the ... www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID... - Cached - Similar
Great potential here for films, when I give up this possibly pointless Patriotic politiking I hope to complete my treatment on this and other fiction and faction. Not least on Hugh Owen the 16th/17th Century Catholic Welsh 'Osama Bin Laden' of his day, the Spy and conspirator that worked so hard to bring down Protestant England (more about he seen in Hwb Hanes Cymru blog). Am thinking ahead after the great Welsh Republican Resurgence of 29 April - Adfywiad Gwladgarol 2011 after which I can retire to some potential cultural grant grabbing creativity before Cultural Crachach grab the little that might be left. At moment am thinking on an Assyrian Rod give away, a what if? story on Arthur II and the Catholic Kingdom of Wales. Am off to Ludow soon to get a feel for this, that 'English Town' of course once being all but a Welsh Capital with the Council of the Marches being based there. Loads of stuff as food for thought re a Wales that might have been if Arthur Tudor had not died aged just 15. Plus not least the Council of the Marches and the Ludlow of Rowland Lee the 'Hanging Judge', some say the pacifier of Rebel Outlaw Resistence, see:
19 Mar 2011 ... Have already done an Item on Libya in my on line History Magazine Hwb Hanes Cymru regards the Pirate Barbary Coast, see link below:.... hwbhanes.blogspot.com/ - Cached
