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In the Footsteps of the Chartists – Foundation of our Political Freedom
Tonight on BBC2 Wales, Michael Sheen will be presenting a program to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Newport riots. He’ll be following in the footsteps of the Chartists, who 175 years ago gave...
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St David? Politicians? ‘A plague on both your houses’
Today, 1st March, in Wales we celebrate our patron saint St David on our national day. Not knowing very much about St David, I embarked upon some research which revealed two things that are worth...
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Does Wales think its children are worth protecting?
Welsh Assembly Members will be debating today a ban on smacking children. It isn’t the first time that this has come before the Senedd and they have symbolically voted in favour of a bill in the past....
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“Crumbs from the table”– the shambolic St David’s Day agreement
Our newspapers and TV were full of the news recently of the St David’s Day agreement, launched at the Millennium Stadium by the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister. Of course, it was neither...
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Craig yr Undeb – Snowdonia’s trades union place of pilgrimage
We look towards the Welsh Valleys when we think of Wales Trade Union history but in the heart of Snowdonia a significant event in Trades Union history took place. Slate was king in the 19th century...
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The Future of Wales in a Broken Britain
Since 1970, which was the first year I could vote, I am proud to say I have voted at all 11 general elections and seen nine prime ministers come and go. The 2015 general election, however, is the first...
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North Wales’s University of Revolution and the Other Easter Rising
Easter means many different things to people. In Ireland at Easter, people think of two risings: the Christian resurrection and a different rising which happened 99 years ago at Easter 1916. It turned...
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Dylan Thomas, a lemon, a World Record and Men in Dresses
I discovered a work by Dylan Thomas recently, that was totally new to me. Apparently he wrote the screenplay to an unremarkable film called, Rebecca’s Daughters. Despite having Peter O’Toole and Paul...
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The Heroes of Ireland and Wales
How can such a small nation have so many iconic locations and modern day heroes concentrated in such a small area? I’ve just returned from a holiday in Ireland where I was also taking the opportunity...
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Wales’s greatest hero: Aneurin Bevan
Wales’s greatest hero, Aneurin Bevan, died 55 years ago today of cancer, aged only 62. Born into a mining family in 1897, he experienced first-hand the problems of poverty and disease. A committed...
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The Gresford Colliery Disaster
Today marks the 81st anniversary of the Gresford colliery disaster which took place on 22 September 1934 at Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham, North Wales, when an explosion resulted in the deaths of 261...
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Penmaenmawr Railway Disaster
In 1950, the nation’s newspapers and radio were full of news of a major railway disaster in the quiet Snowdonia town of Penmaenmawr. A little after 3 am on 27 August, a train from Holyhead with over...
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Port Talbot marks 100 years of its only VC recipient: Rupert Hallowes
Wednesday, 30 September marks the centenary of the death of Port Talbot’s greatest hero. Rupert Price Hallowes VC MC was the son of Frederick and Mary Hallowes and lived at Dan-y-Ffynnon, Port Talbot,...
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Five killed in Bodelwyddan Riots
On 5th March 1919, a First World War army camp at Bodelwyddan near Abergele in North Wales was the scene of a bloody riot that left five soldiers dead and 23 injured. Kinmel Park Camp was built in 1914...
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Four killed in Mold riots – another Welsh injustice
Say ‘Cofiwch Dryweryn’ to any Welshman and he will scowl at the recollection of the great injustice of 50 years ago, when a Welsh village was flooded against the wishes of everyone in Wales to provide...
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Elizabeth Andrews – Pioneering Welsh Social Activist
Elizabeth Andrews Elizabeth Andrews was undoubtedly a woman before her time. From the opening years of the 20th century, she worked as an untiring advocate for miners, their wives and children. She...
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150 years of Welsh rugby – but, more than just a game?
March 23rd, 2016 marks the 150th anniversary of the first recorded game of rugby union in Wales which took place at St David’s College, Lampeter brought there by its Vice-Principal, Rev. Dr Rowland...
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It’s 2018 Churches – keep up! There’s resource out there.
For the last couple of years, I have avoided blogging on Christian subjects because I belong to a generation of Christians who had high expectations from the mid-1970s of church growth and revival and...
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