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After bragging-up access to historical records in Wales as compared to England, I have to admit that this is not the case with 19C field na...

I don't think that anyone can really argue that Welsh historians are not guilty of writing women out of our country's history, and ...

Anyone with an interest in local history is well-served in Wales as old newspapers, wills, bardic genealogies etc are available on-line and...

In the documentary Carnets d'un combattant kurde a young Kurdish fighter mused on the beauty of the mountains, for her the most beautif...

The USA is certainly an exceptional country, indeed it is so exceptional that the National Question is seemingly of no importance whatsoeve...

The Empire rather lost control of the narrative last week.  The western media had a grandstand view of the fighting in Kobane and, for once...

Paul Gubarev is currently hospitalized following an assassination attempt, a few weeks ago he and his family were enjoying this cheerful dit...

The IWA site Click on Wales currently hosts articles on fascism from three of the country's more interesting pensmen Tim Williams, Dav...

I'd been hoping to read some of my favourite Welsh bloggers' analysis of the Scottish vote - not much so far, perhaps they're d...

They spilt your blood yesterday They put your head on an oaken post A little way from your corpse.

Britishness died with the British Empire and the vote in Scotland is more about sorting out the estate of a recently departed and somewhat ...

To do a proper job on patronyms in 16C Herefordshire you'd have to use the Lay Subsidy but with second hand copies of Mr Faraday's...

I expect most readers will have already seen former British ambassador Craig Murray's description of the United Kingdom as a rogue stat...

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...