RADNORIAN

As well as being one of the more familiar Irish premiers to those of us this side of the water Garret Fitzgerald also took time out from hi...

I had hoped to post some impressions - not a review, that would be presumptuous - of this, the latest volume in the Oxford History of Wal...

This coming weekend the European Parliament would like us all to wear black ribbons, having voted in 2008 to designate the 23rd of August a...

I can sympathise with those who say I should stick to my usual Radnorian related material and not bother with Ukraine, I feel the same way ...

So Powys County Councillor Myfanwy Alexander has caused a stink by using the N word in a cabinet debate.  As expected in these politically-...

Minding my own business in Builth High Street , a reader sidles up and tells me the blog has got too political, too much Wcrain. "Yo...

Now here's an interesting snippet of 20C history to ponder, the visit of the Chilean Communist leader Gladys Marin to East Germany in t...

English and American film-makers regularly revisit the old Robin Hood legend which, I'd say, provides most of us with our initial impre...

Anyone interested in Radnorshire history could do worse than pick up a copy of Mr Faraday's Radnorshire Taxes in the Reign of Henry VII...

I'm guessing that the US State Department were quite pleased with Brazil's humiliating defeat in the recent football tournament.  T...

With the Washington elite drunk on the idea of American exceptionalism and Brussels trumpeting the supremacy of "european values...

I remember a television programme, years ago, highlighting the poverty to be found in rural Eastern Europe; poor folk who didn't have e...

When I was a young lad a neighbour gave me a box of magazines,  published during the Second World War, called Hutchinsons Pictorial History...

Are the Rusyns of the Carpathian mountains a people?  The Slovaks and Hungarians think so, the Ukrainians don't.  That's the p...

There's a scene in the recent Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davies" where the eponymous anti-hero is angered by the refus...

Sometime back in March, I'm not sure of the exact date, Radnorian passed away.  Not, let me hasten to add, the Radnorian of the real wo...

One of my better buys was a very cheap second hand copy of a book called Statistical Evidence relating to the Welsh Language 1801-1911 , pa...

In my recent post about the Ukraine I suggested the following in regard to the Kiev killings:. "the president finally lets the cop...

We're all pretty suspicious about the historical accuracy of Hollywood war films or the dream factory's take on the Wild-West, but ...