RADNORIAN

Wind farms - a ghastly waste of money.  Solar panels - a daily reminder that the poor have to cough-up extra cash to subsidize the well-to-...

This headline suggests that the Mosleyite rump are more familiar with the Bayer Wald  than they are with Wales, but there's no den...

According to Michael Foot's biography Nye Bevan had a Radnorshire mother.  In reality Phoebe Protheroe was born in Tredegar.  Her peopl...

Take an interest in the historical uses of DNA and you soon learn not to get too excited about the latest headline. Humans and Neandert...

Something new everyday and today I found out about Aikake .  Now Hawaii may have a whole lot more devolved powers than anything envisaged...

Richard Wyn Jones' new book (see previous post) provoked quite a reaction on twitter, well two tweets at least.  But then as Professor ...

This thoroughly researched book, it's really an extended essay of 112 pages, exposes the big lie that Welsh nationalists can somehow...

I've often thought that, left to its own devices, Wales would have developed a system of government somewhat along the lines of the Swi...

Here's a face that wouldn't look out of place perusing the stock pens at Llanelwedd, although in reality he found fortune in the ...

How celebrated would Elaine Morgan have been if she'd lived in Hampstead instead of Mountain Ash?  She would surely have made it into t...

It's more than 800 years since Giraldus reported that some of his Norman compatriots thought it best to turn Wales into an "unpopu...

On this beautiful summer's day let's take a trip from the Herefordshire border town of Kington to Cardigan Bay.  Despite being t...

"let's build some modern myths and legends" Well that's the opinion expressed in one anonymous comment to the blog.  ...

Now this young lad is obviously far too bright for the likes of Obama and Hague, but if you're wondering who should come out on top in...

It's good to see the Holohan sisters are back on youtube after a long exile on dailymotion.  I've picked out this performance bec...

Anyone interested in history - and I'm one of those who believe you can't understand the present without knowing a bit about the pa...

This blog started out to cover snippets of Radnorshire history - basically to show that the county was part and parcel of mainstream Wales ...

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...