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Monday, December 30, 2024

A Traitor's Radnorshire Connections

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 I've known about John Amery for a long time now but only recently noticed his Radnorshire connections. Hanged as a traitor in 1945, he ...
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Friday, November 22, 2024

Cad Goddeu

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 Russian social media is speculating about the origin of the name "ореховый" or "hazel" applied to the new hypersonic mi...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

The Election

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 So here we are a week out from an election in a country with an economy ruined by self inflicted wounds - covid, climate change and immigra...
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Sunday, June 02, 2024

Not much to do with Radnorshire

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What do you do if you're broke, no-one will lend you money because your credit rating is through the floor and you've sold off the l...
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Tuesday, April 09, 2024

Promising Young Women

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There was a recent twitter spat between fans of two rising actresses, the obviously white but Spanish speaking Anya Taylor Joy - a fluent na...
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Friday, December 01, 2023

How are things in Lackawanna

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If you delve deep into Welsh family history you'll soon be as familiar with Pennsylvanian counties such as Lackawanna and Luzerne as you...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

These Times We're Living In

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I discovered Kate Wolf during lockdown, enjoying the sunshine and wondering at the stupidity of it all.  I do believe that some are chosen, ...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Armageddon and Idpol

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I don't know if the West ever thought they could beat Russia in Ukraine, perhaps they did but clearly that's not the case now.  Toda...
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Friday, June 16, 2023

Wcrain

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Every now and then during the last year I've typed Wcrain into the twitter search to see what my fellow countrymen have to say about the...
Monday, May 15, 2023

Red Radnorshire

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 I'm sure a lot of Welsh folk have an image of Radnorshire as a rural backwater, anglicised, probably Tory voting, an extension of Heref...
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Thursday, May 04, 2023

Reflections on wasted opportunities

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As someone with an interest in family history and the science of dna, I've taken tests with a couple of companies.  All very interesting...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Another Old Post

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  Widows and Spinsters You don't find much written about the Welsh businesswomen of the Victorian and Edwardian period.  Such females di...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Bill Sikes, Radnorshire's Own

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Let's forget for a moment the utter stupity of supplying depleted uranium shells to a bunch of mindless idiots, who will more than likel...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

An old post from 2014

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I think this post about Ukraine has stood the test of time, not a hard thing to predict mind. http://tredelyn.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-10-minu...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Gareth Jones

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 I first became aware of Gareth Jones when I purchased a copy of the Dictionary of Welsh  Biography from Griff's bookshop in the early 1...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Taeogion?

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&  I was reading an article that claimed that Wales was far more servial (taeogion) at the commencement of the Queen's reign than it...
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Thursday, September 08, 2022

Our Radnorshire Folk

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My great great grandfather was born in Llandinam around the same time as David Davies of the Ocean Coal Company - who is getting some mentio...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Barbarossa

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We tend to forget that when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 they were not alone - Rumania, Italy, Finland, Hungary and Slovakia wer...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Social Fascists?

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What prospects for a truly independent Wales in a country that so readily swallows the mainstream lies about Covid and Ukraine?  The intelle...
Sunday, April 03, 2022

The Radnor model

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  Remember when the two Wales model, or was it the three, was all the rage.  Something about how modern day Wales was still influenced by th...
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