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John Brett in Wales

Ann Summer

Wednesday 21 January, 2015

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1922: a Year in the Remarkable Life of Lady Rhondda

Angela V John

Tuesday 18 November, 2014

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Wales’s first radical – the life of Dr William Price

Dean Powell

Tuesday 13 May, 2014

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Hwyl and Hiraeth: Richard Burton and Wales

PROFESSOR CHRIS WILLIAMS

Friday 29 November, 2013

Richard Burton (born Richard Jenkins, Pontrhydyfen, Glamorgan, 1925; died Celigny, Switzerland, 1984) is one of the most famous Welshmen of the twentieth century, whose global renown (or notoreity, depending on

How Welsh was Mrs Piozzi?

Dai Morgan Evans

Tuesday 19 November, 2013

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Huw T Edwards a Datganoli 1945–1964

Gwyn Jenkins

Thursday 2 June, 2011

O dderbyn gwireb Ron Davies mai proses nid digwyddiad yw datganoli (‘devolution is a process, not an event’), yna adeg o arbrofi a thafoli opsiynau oedd y cyfnod o ddiwedd

Lloyd George at Eighty

J. Graham Jones

Thursday 2 June, 2011

David Lloyd George celebrated his eightieth birthday at his home at Bron-y-de, Churt, Surrey on 17 January 1943. It was an especially tense, potentially explosive occasion for the notoriously feud-racked

Alfred Thomas and Wales in Parliament, 1885-1910

Gerard Charmley

Thursday 2 June, 2011

Alfred Thomas (1840–1927) is a curiously neglected figure in the history of late nineteenth century Wales. This is in spite of the fact that he left voluminous personal papers (most

Walter Meredith, C. 1558-1607: Scrivener of Radnorshire and London

Hilary Yewlett

Friday 6 May, 2011

In asserting that the early modern Welsh diaspora is ‘a huge and fascinating subject’, Professor Sir Glanmor Williams noted in particular that ‘the outflux of men and women of humbler

The Welshness of William Emrys Williams

Malcolm Ballin

Wednesday 4 May, 2011

William Emrys Williams (1896–1977), the writer, educator, arts administrator and publisher, was a human powerhouse in the field of cultural transmission. Notions of Welshness reverberated in the epicentre of British