Rita Singer<p>Reposting my <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a> because there's a flurry of new folks -- and I'm an eternal optimist at finding fellow Welsh writing in English peeps. So here goes:</p><p>I work as the Community Outreach Officer for the Welsh Dictionary of Biography, more collquially called the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Bywgraffiadur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bywgraffiadur</span></a>, at the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryOfWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalLibraryOfWales</span></a>. Our goal is to close representational gaps and set the Dictionary on a course of recording the diverse lives of historical Welsh people in all their facets. <a href="https://biography.wales/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">biography.wales/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Otherwise, I'm working on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WelshWritingInEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WelshWritingInEnglish</span></a> mostly from the long <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/C19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C19</span></a>. Other research interests include <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TravelWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TravelWriting</span></a>, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/VisitorsBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VisitorsBook</span></a>. I'm also into <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/PublicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHistory</span></a> and community outreach, sometimes abt <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/PortHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PortHeritage</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WW1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW1</span></a> German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.</p><p>I share longer <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WiP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WiP</span></a> here: <a href="https://bydbach.hcommons.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bydbach.hcommons.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Toots will be mostly in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a>, but occasionally also in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Deutsch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deutsch</span></a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Cymraeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cymraeg</span></a>.<br><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>