Y Traethodydd is a quarterly cultural magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 published in the Welsh language

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 covering historical, literary and theological topics. The journal was originally published in 1845 on behalf of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church

Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church

Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, also known as Capel Ceryg, is a historic Methodist church on Prospect Street in Remsen, Oneida County, New York. It was built in 1831 and is a vernacular stone meeting house building. It is a simple two story, rectangular building with a gable roof.It was...

. It is the oldest magazine in Wales and the oldest magazine in the Welsh language still in publication.

Y Traethodydd was founded by Roger Edwards and Lewis Edwards

Lewis Edwards

Lewis Edwards was a Welsh educator and Nonconformist minister.He was born in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr in Ceredigion, Wales, and educated at Aberystwyth and at Llangeitho. He then ran schools in both these places...

 and the magazine was modelled on the influential Edinburgh Review

Edinburgh Review

The Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, was one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century. It ceased publication in 1929. The magazine took its Latin motto judex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur from Publilius Syrus.In 1984, the Scottish cultural magazine New Edinburgh Review,...

. Both men were Welsh Calvinistic Methodist

Calvinistic Methodists

Calvinistic Methodists are a body of Christians forming the Presbyterian Church of Wales and claiming to be the only denomination of the Presbyterian order in Wales which is of purely Welsh origin.-Early history:...

 preachers, and Lewis Edwards successfully used the publication to disseminate information on the latest trends in theology, science, literature and philosophy. Edwards edited Y Traethodydd for its first ten years, when it was published in Denbigh

Denbigh

Denbigh is a market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales. Before 1888, it was the county town of Denbighshire. Denbigh lies 8 miles to the north west of Ruthin and to the south of St Asaph. It is about 13 miles from the seaside resort of Rhyl. The town grew around the glove-making industry...

 by Thomas Gee

Thomas Gee

Thomas Gee , was a Welsh Nonconformist preacher, journalist and publisher.Gee was born at Denbigh. At the age of fourteen he went into his father's printing office, but continued to attend the grammar school in the afternoons.In 1837 he went to London to improve his knowledge of printing, and on...

, a fellow Nonconformist Welshman who was notable for printing Welsh magazines and journals.