Did you know a Welsh Calvinist Minister by the name of Evan Roberts led the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival? Who Was He? Roberts was born in Casllwchwr (Loughor in English), a small town…
Robert Owen: Welsh Founder of Utopian Socialism
Did you know that one of the founders of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement was a Welshman by the name of Robert Owen? Who Was Robert Owen? Owen was born in…
John Charles: Welsh Football’s GOAT
Though Wales is known for having produced numerous world class football players over the past few centuries (Gareth Bale, Ian Rush and Billy Meredith, to name but three), arguably no Welsh name…
Owain Gwynedd: Prince of Wales
One of the most deeply significant of the medieval Welsh princes is none other that Owain ap Gruffudd, who is better known as, simply (though he was by no means a simple…
The Miyazaki Movie Inspired by Welsh Novel
Did you know that the Studio Ghibli & Hayao Miyazaki movie, Howl’s Moving Castle, was based on the Welsh Diana Wynne Jones novel of the same name? In the novel, one of…