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Author: Niklas George
Aylesford: The First Battle Between the Welsh & English
Did you know that the first major battle between the ancient Britons (the predecessors of the Welsh) and the Anglo-Saxons (predecessors of the English) is widely believed to be the Battle of Aylesford and is estimated to have taken place in AD 455? The battle was fought between the two sides with the warlord Gwrtheyrn…
Titanic Anniversary: Welsh Aboard the Titanic
As I write this blog, I think about the more than 1,500 people who lost their lives aboard the Titanic exactly 113 years ago. Death does not discriminate – it comes for young, old, male, female and, yes, even class. It is a little-known fact that multiple Welsh people died with the RMS Titanic. Whereas…
The Story of Caratacus
More than a millennium before the Uprising led by Owain Glyndŵr against English rule, there was the Brythonic resistance led by Caradog (more commonly known as Caratacus) against the might of imperial Rome. Caradog was a first century AD ancient Briton and chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe (who were most present in what is today…
A Welsh Lullaby So Old it Remembers Animals Now Extinct
Did you know that there exists a Welsh language lullaby which dates back well over a thousand years? Pais Dinogad (English: Dinogad’s Smock) is a lullaby believed to have been first written down sometime in the 7th century, though it is very probable that it had already been verbal for centuries at this point. The…
Hywel ap Cadel/Hywel Dda (?-950 AD)
Hywel ap Cadel, perhaps more commonly known as Hywel Dda (Hywel “the Good”), was originally the Welsh King of Deheubarth before coming to rule over most of Cymru, including Gwynedd, in his lifetime. Hywel Dda was a skilled politician who succeeded in usurping the Kingdom of Gwynedd from Idwal Foel and his children, Iago and…