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In 1897 the great Welsh scholar Sir John Rhys (1840-1915) produced this rough sketch of Welsh dialects in a letter he sent to Sir Edward Anw...

Who knows what you'll find when you're wilfing around the internet and here's a classic from the archives of Mid Wales Motor Spo...

According to Professor Geraint Jenkins' Introduction to Language and Community in the Nineteenth Century a volume in the series A Socia...

The first census to bother itself with the Welsh language was that of 1891, and of subsequent enquiries, only that of 1901 has so far been p...

Discovered some more information about forgotten Brooklands racer Irene Schwedler, I've posted about her before , in the Royal Aero Clu...

It's a puzzle why so many supporters of the Union think their cause will be furthered by being rude about the Scots and the Welsh. Perha...

It's September 1962 and your blogger attends his first Formula One event, the Gold Cup race at Oulton Park. Earlier in the year Stirling...

The 1891 Census shows two young sisters living at the remote farm of Claerwen in Cwmteuddwr parish. Margaret Lewis was 25 and her sister wa...

Other than stirring up a language controversy, there's nothing the Western Mail likes better than finding an obscure Welsh connection to...

This biography of pre-war racer Freddie Dixon is due to be published by Haynes next month. I wonder if there is any chance of a few more s...

Here's an interesting letter from the April 1969 edition of Motor Sport. Wonder how much petrol you'd get for a shilling today? Ab...

At the beginning of the last century this Llandrindod business found it worthwhile to advertize its products in the Welsh language. This wou...

It seems that the new James Bond film Quantum of Solace (eh?) is going to include a car-chase around Italy's Lake Garda. Old time raci...

This is a picture of Penarth Mount in the parish of Cregrina, there's a good aerial photograph here . Like most such sites it's cla...

The feast was symbolic of the bardic world view. The man of power, the foundation stone of the civilised society, gives food and drink to h...

Currently for sale on ebay is this £1 note issued by the Rhayader Bank in 1811, starting price is £43. I can think of one or two Bwgeyites ...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report into the housing scandal in Rural Wales should come as no surprise to anyone. What is disappointing...

Here's an interesting image from John Speed's General Description and Severall Divisions of the Principality of Wales published 1n ...

Work continues apace on Llandrindod's newly discovered inner gateway, we'll post pictures as soon as the installations are installe...

"Et nous, dont le nom connu des goélands et des cormorans, Fut banni de tous les langages humains, De toutes les bibliothèques, de tout...