la_marquise: (Caspian)
la_marquise ([personal profile] la_marquise) wrote2013-09-30 05:29 pm

On Furphies: what we really don't know about the 'Celts'

I have my professional hat on, today, over on the SF Novelists blog. I'm talking about the concept of 'Celts', the origin of myths about their history and the law around women. You can find the article here. You can comment here or there.

SKirt of the day: flippy blurred floral.

[identity profile] sharpwords.livejournal.com 2013-09-30 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a copy of that, a Puffin paperback from the 80s which is now falling apart in a couple of places from 30 years of love.
(I had to go around all the shelves in the house till I found it; was worried I'd loaned it out too.)

[identity profile] sollersuk.livejournal.com 2013-10-01 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Mine is hardback, which is probably just as well as it has had nearly twice that length of love from two generations.

It's actually rather funny. Both were born and brought up in London, but my elder daughter has always identified herself as Welsh while her sister was very emphatically English. But now that she's on the point of moving to North Wales she's suddenly discovered her roots (more helpful than mine; I'm from South Wales, which will be tricky, but her father's mother's family was from North Wales)