RADNORIAN

No doubt brought up on rhymes for children like this Maesyfed, yma safwn, wrth ddwfr Llandrindod lon Ond wfft i Sir Faesyfed, un ...

I suppose it never crossed my mind that people would go to evening classes to learn Welsh before, say, the 1960s.  Certainly clever chaps l...

I've probably mentioned this before in passing but it's another incident that deserves a post of its own.  Let's remember the h...

Although the old Radnorshire folk may be heading for the red-list along with the curlew and the skylark; your blogger is still a bit wary o...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

A new book of Radnorshire interest. More details here .

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

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

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...