The age of the Cambro-Britons: hyphenated British identities in the seventeenth century

• Published in: The Seventeenth century Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 427 - 439
• Main Author: Schwyzer, Philip
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Routledge 08.08.2018; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: 17th century; British people; britishness; English language; Hiraethog, Gruffudd; Humphrey Llwyd; hyphenated identity; Llwyd, Humphrey; Michael Drayton; National identity; Owen, John (1560?-1622); Wales; Welsh literature; Writers; United Kingdom > UK; Wales

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Welsh writers including the antiquary Humphrey Llwyd, the bard Gruffudd Hiraethog, and the epigrammatist John Owen began referring to themselves as Cambro-Britons. The term was quickly adopted and popularised by English writers, often in ways th...