RADNORIAN

For too long all roads led east, little wonder that Wales was an end-of-the-line country with a dead-end economy. Radnorian salutes the...

No doubt peeved by the unexpected defeat of Frank Edwards in the 1895 General Election by the Tory candidate Powlett Milbank , the newspape...

I thought my copy of Meic Stephens' Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales was pretty well-thumbed but, somehow or other, one entr...

A journalistic view of the Rhayader district from 1843 I wonder how accurate a description it was? Stuffing rags or turf in a window openin...

Click to enlarge. As to the gist well it sounds like a good idea but what about the malicious and frivolous accusations it's bound to e...

Obviously the revival of Irish hasn't gone quite as well as it should have. But never mind, here we have the best motor sport song since...

No new posts? I'm blaming a bit of a breakthrough I recently made on the family history front in finally identifying a great grandfath...

The Welsh Land Commission, set up by the government to enquire into the relationship between tenants and landlords, came to Rhayader to take...

While wilfing around the internet I came across this reprint of a book originally published in 1863, you can actually read an online versi...

It seemed an open and shut case, Samuel Williams of Norton had stolen Richard Stephens' coat. There was surprise when the jury asked if...

In 1910 it seems that a husband was legally responsible for the slanderous words uttered by his wife, which is why Mr J found himself as a d...

I bought this book - it's a general history of Britain up to the present day - a few years ago and I'd happily pass it on to Oxfam e...

If the Welsh dialect of St Harmon and Cwmteuddwr was similar to that of neighbouring Montgomeryshire and the lost dialects of places like Gl...

Just imagine what the BBC and its media pals would have made of this if it had been said by someone whose politics they didn't like, Con...

It's always interesting to check out the keywords used to find the blog. Some provide ideas for a post, while others just leave you puz...

Maybe it's old age but even today's stars seem less interesting than the spannermen of the 1950s. I doubt for example if Button or ...

Above is the somewhat Gothic war memorial in the Radnorshire village of Norton, it was designed to serve as a horse trough and drinking foun...

In the early 1630s a strapped-for-cash King Charles sold the crown estate of Maelienydd to some rogues or other, much to the consternation o...

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walked into a bar ............ the Welshman was still in New Zealand.

On the face of it Enoch Powell isn't a Forgotten Radnorian at all. His Radnorshire connections are mentioned in biographies written by ...