In the late summer of 55 BCE, Julius Caesar stood on the northern shores of Gaul, watching the restless waters of the Channel. Beyond those shifting waves rose the pale chalk cliffs of Britain, gleaming like a frontier to another world.

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The British tribes lived their Iron Age lifestyle watching with growing concern what was happening across the water and they hoped to keep out of the coming conflict with the new force in their world Rome. It did not work out.

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Between 1850 and 1900, Wales witnessed the birth and consolidation of organised labour. Trade unions, once fragile and easily suppressed, grew into powerful movements that reshaped politics and industry.

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This week we talk to Greg Thomas Creator and host of Welsh American Channel [Americanwyr Cymreig].

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In the later half of the 1800s, Wales saw the birth of a modern higher education system. The universities that emerged during this period weren’t just academic institutions, rather they were symbols of national pride, engines of social mobility, and part of a broader cultural and political awakening across the country.

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Wales has been a part of some form of the now United Kingdom since 1284, over its history there have been spasms of discontent, and out right rebellion. It had been a while since a truly national movement but the flames were igniting as the embers are stirred.

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Recently I had an opportunity to travel via a few methods and it got me thinking.

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On the Ocean West of Gaul lied the secretive land of the Britons. And this is the story of how new conquerors brought the Island to heel. Before leaving it all 350 years later.

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From muddy fields, makeshift goalposts, and a sport just beginning to take root in the valleys and towns of Wales. This is the story of how football — or soccer, as some call it — made its first strides in Welsh life during the Victorian period.

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