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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Musical Interlude

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Turn the map of Europe on it's side and the importance of the ancient Atlantic seaways becomes apparent.  A mare-nostrum of stateless...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Grid Walk

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Motor sport loves iffy politicians with money to burn, real money.  Wales might qualify on one count but without the moolah you can forget ...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

No change here

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A few weeks ago an insider was asking on twitter (which by the way I've decided is not for me) what would be a suitable name for a Cere...

Emily Hobhouse - a Great Nuisance

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Let's be honest all sides in the Syrian conflict are capable of starving, torturing and killing their opponents.  It's also no surp...
Friday, January 03, 2014

As we do call it

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I recently had to admit that I know next to nothing about the history of the Welsh language in the Shropshire Hundred of Clun, other than t...
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Go West

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Like any right-thinking Cymro I'm sure that America was named after the Bristol merchant Richard Amerike , a descendant of Hywel ap Me...
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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Camp Bastion ar Ieithon

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When Sir Richard Hoare visited Radnorshire in the early 1800s a local named John Williams informed him that the extensive Roman remains in...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Patriots and Pacifists

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Llandrindod's Baptist Tabernacle would hardly seem a likely setting for a mini-riot; but such was the case in the summer of 1917 when t...
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Wednesday, December 04, 2013

"My name is Manoa"

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Wales may have some of the dullest children politicians in Europe but at least it has decent online-history resources - this one covering...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

The Patriot Game

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So who led Plaid Cymru's official delegation to Berlin in 1940?  J E Daniel?  Saunders Lewis perhaps?  And wasn't that young Gwynfo...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Radnorshire From Above - Review

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Let's get the praise out of the way first; this is a beautifully produced book - in Aberystwyth - containing more than a hundred aerial...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Jubilee, Grip and Eretz England

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So Jubilee and Grip, a couple of ravens at the Tower of London have been killed by an urban fox.  I'm not sure why it needed a Freedom ...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Radnorshire from above

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A new book of Radnorshire interest. More details here .
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The Dublin Franchise

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"Irish fascists? - get away with you."  "Anti-semitism! - don't be stupid."  My interlocutor remained unconvinced ...

Welsh-Speaking Radnorians in the 1911 Census

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According to some of our leading historians the Welsh language died out in Radnorshire centuries ago. Take Glanmor Williams for example, wh...
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Thursday, October 03, 2013

Something for the Weekend

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A Very Old Radnor OAPs (those aged 65 and over) make up some 18% of the population of Wales, while Conwy on the Costa Geriatrica is the...
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Musical Interlude

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Wikipedia tells us that Mandy Rice Davies was born in Pontiets, although her birth certificate is more likely to read Wiltshire.  Ms Davies...
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Saturday, September 28, 2013

A Forgotten Referendum

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The current talk of referenda and national identity reminds me of a largely forgotten referendum, that of the Radnorshire border parishes w...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Are Scots Lazy and/or Stupid?

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I didn't see last night's Newsnight but according to twitter the eminent psephologist Professor Curtice came up with an explanation...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Scottish Identity

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I wonder if the unionists regret including a national identity question in the 2011 Census?  Little-England-Beyond-Wales?  Completely shot ...
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