SSIWer Alan Phillips (@alanphillips) recently gained an MA in Celtic Studies by distance learning with Trinity St David University in Llambed (Lampeter) - Alan lives on the Isle of Wight. He gained a distinction for his dissertation on Welsh Harvest Traditions, bringing together material which had never been done before academically, and is hoping in due course to publish an expanded version with illustrations.
Alan recently attended the 5-day Welsh intensive near Llandysul, where Iestyn (voice of the Southern lessons) looked over a printed copy and thought it ‘a cracking document’. It is already online on a couple of academic websites, but for those of you interested in reading about Welsh customs it’s available below as a PDF to download.
Harvest Dissertation.pdf (392.4 KB)
If you’d like to read more about Welsh traditions in general, there was a previous thread where Alan contributed some of his research - Could we have a thread on Welsh Customs?