Monday, February 2, 2009

POPULAR HISTORY MAGAZINES but why not a Welsh one? About time there was don't you think?

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Cadw produces a thrice yearly Magazine for it's members which with the below Welsh History Journal published for internal educational use by teachers in Wales, are excellent publications but restricted in public presentation and in main privately circulated. However, both these journals are good examples and provide good templates for what could be produced as a WELSH HISTORY MAGAZINE. Surely such could be delivered with WAG financial support and the pro-active involvement of such as Cadw, RCAHMW and both the Civic and National Trusts of Wales, and other like minded bodies. I would strongly suggest that this be an English Language magazine, not even bilingual as there really does seem sufficient done via medium of 'Yr Hen Iaith' in this area in both publications and via S4C programming. I suggest this also for pragmatic and practical reasons regards ensuring potential great success in the highly competitive mass media popular publications end of magazine sales today, just take a look at the Magazine Shelves in Smiths, so if such is to be a success one must get real and let the head rule not the heart. Plus please, if such is to succeed then it must draw upon the whole history education area in Wales, and involve as many Welsh Historians as possible, and not the ''Media Darlings'', especially the fella in the fishing jacket who has hogged our history far too much at expense of other great historian.
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Whatever, expect me to make this a major campaigning matter in WR posts this year, in mean time do some reading of all the history Magazines available, not least the Scottish History Magazine and yes, if Scotland has got such, indeed why not Wales?
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