Welsh History Podcast

On a warm Saturday afternoon in August 1911, in a tinplate town in Carmarthenshire, a nervous magistrate mumbled the words of the Riot Act to a crowd that could barely hear him, a major of the Worcestershire Regiment gave an order, and soldiers of the British Army fired live rounds into the back gardens of an ordinary Welsh street.

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With the arrival of the Romans comes the establishment of a new trade centre and importantly the flood of the symbols of their version of civilization changing the makeup of south eastern Britain.

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Every town in Wales had one. You knew where it was. You knew what it was for. And you spent your whole life hoping you would never have to walk through its gate.

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With a new century comes the true professional game that is at the centre of Wales even today and the first Welsh superstar.

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In this episodes it is a tale of two versions of the man. First, we will follow the real Caratacus through his war, his defeat, his betrayal, and the extraordinary scene of his speech before an emperor. In the second, we will follow his afterlife, the long tail of tradition, poetry, painting, music, and outright invention that his name dragged behind it down the centuries.

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A special episode where I sit down with Charlie Leah, author of Last Man Standing: Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Powys about the life of Gruffydd and his desire to clear his name from accusations of history.

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This episode I talk about the remarkable and controversial life of David Lloyd George.

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The story of the founding of the Labour Party, runs straight through Wales. Not around it.

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The Fosse Way is a mighty road from Lincoln to Exeter which acts as a the spine of the Roman campaign a bridge between two legions and we are going to talk about it today.

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In this episode we are going to Bethesda. And we are going to tell the story of the Great Strike at the Penrhyn Quarry, which began on the twenty second of November 1900 and did not end until November 1903.

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By Summers, Alfred Day & Son, lithographer. - This image is available from the National Library of Wales You can view this image in its original context on the NLW Catalogue, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41997418

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