RADNORIAN

It's getting on for four decades years since Westminster decided to abolish the old county of Radnorshire but still it won't lie do...

That perspicacious blogger Jac o' the'North has been looking at the census figures and it's instructive to compare his figures...

Flags matter, symbols matter, slogans matter.  Would I have been quite such a jolly welshman if I hadn't grown-up seeing...

..... it's a football chant that is sometimes used to wind-up the fans of Hereford United, and like all good insults it works because i...

Rhwng Gwy a Hafren, the lands between the Severn and the Wye, they don't receive much consideration from our Welsh historians.  It'...

With mainstream nationalism having effectively given-up on a Welsh state, the dwindling band of patriots are placing a lot of faith in the ...

I can't say I know much about these happy Polish hippies but they're performing a popular Serb folk song from Kosovo: "A den...

The 2011 Census allowed respondents to choose between any number of multiple ethnic identities although in reality very few opted to do so....

It's plain enough from the Laws of Hywel that slavery existed in medieval Wales.  It would be strange if it hadn't since it was an ...

The previous post highlighted some of the less than complimentary statements about Radnorshire found in the Welsh language press of the Vic...

So you're an inquisitive child in Victorian Radnorshire and, thanks to the gradual introduction of elementary school education, you...

Back in the 1890s Alexander Richardson Binnie , the chief engineer at London County Council, had big plans for Radnorshire and Breconshire....

Live long enough and perhaps you'll achieve a whit of fame.  This is what happened to Evan Edwards of Torquay, described in the Edwardi...

Readers of the last couple of posts will guess that Radnorian has discovered the National Library's brilliant new resource, see here . ...

It was a summer evening in 1895 when a Cockney tramp, one Charles Rogers, stepped out of a Rhayader hostelry wondering where he would spend...

We're aware of the sometimes violent antagonism between Irish and Welsh workers in 19C  South Wales and even Pennsylvania ; but in earl...

Anyone who has read Bruce Chatwin's book will know about the Boers of Patagonia .  There's something about the ends of the earth wh...

I was reading a blog post about North Korea from the Mail on Sunday 's Peter Hitchens.  All very interesting but what struck me was thi...

Hansard 14th June 1982: Mr Eric Ogden, Liverpool,  West Darby:   Is the Minister aware that the Falkland Islanders who have been so trag...

I hope Y Dysgwr Araf won't mind me pinching this snap, cheered me up on a cold day:: I was recently sent some pictures...