RADNORIAN

There's no better book on Radnorshire than Ffransis Payne's two volume travel book Crwydro Sir Faesyfed . The inhabitants of Howey ...

This young fellow doesn't look particularly happy about things, although he was an heir to a great musical tradition - y delyn deir-res ...

The London Gazette is a good source for filling in the biographical gaps for some of the more obscure pre-war racers. The Welsh-born Brook...

Silver John is dead and gone So they came home a-singing. Radnor boys pulled out his eyes And set the bells a-ringing According to W. H. Ho...

Time was we blamed bad weather on the wrath of the gods and placated them by sacrificing a virgin or some such. Nowadays we blame bad weath...

Here is another praise poem to Philip ap Rhys and Gwenllian of Cenarth, St Harmon. Ffransis Payne considered it the best of the poems compo...

Philip ap Rhys of Cenarth , St Harmon was the son-in-law of Owain Glyndwr . After Maredudd , Owain's son received a pardon from Henr...

After Lewis Glyn Cothi the bard Llawdden was perhaps the most prolific of the Fifteenth Century poets writing to patrons in and around Rad...

Some of the old mechanics, who were around in the late 50s when Ireland first started to make a name for himself in the world of Motor Sport...

This is a translation of a cywydd by Lewis Glyn Cothi in praise of the Sion and Hywel, two sons of Ieuan Coch. Lewis composed a number of p...

In this jolly poem addressed to Ieuan ap Gruffudd Fychan of Gladestry, Lewis Glyn Cothi mocks a bardic rival called Hywel Bongam, none of w...

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We all know that English speakers can mangle Welsh names but what about some of the linguistic nonsense inflicted by Welsh speakers on the ...

If an article in this month's Motor Sport is anything to go by then John Surtees wasn't Innes Ireland's biggest fan. Innes he s...

A new book has been published in France charting the life of Marie Marthe Camille Designe du Gast (1868-1942), the first woman driver to com...

This is an elegy by Lewis Glyn Cothi for Hywel Goch ap Rhys ap Dafydd ap Hywel Fain of Gwestun, Llangynllo: No. 179, Elegy for Hywel Goch Th...

Back in July 1903 the Automobile Club held a series of events in the Emerald Isle which it described as the Irish Automobile Fortnight. Her...

On 9th June 1919 the Chairman of the local Urban District Council, Mr Jeffrey Jones, opened the Welsh Home Rule Conference in Llandrindod W...

This is a praise poem by Lewis Glyn Cothi to Henri ab Ieuan Fychan of Llansantffraid yn Elfael: No 156, Praise of Henri ab Ieuan Fychan Who ...

Preacher's Son by Dewi Williams is an interesting book about everyday life in North Breconshire in the early 1950s, as seen through the ...