Ellis Humphrey Evans, known by his bardic name Hedd Wyn, was killed on the first day of the battle of Passchendaele.
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Bard Hedd Wyn was killed in action in France in 1917.
The Mari Lwyd makes a welcome appearance in Chepstow.
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The Mari Lwyd and the plygain are two prominent Welsh traditions celebrated over Christmas and the new year.
Bernice Rubens was born in a working class area of Cardiff.
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Bernice Rubens won the 1970 Booker prize for her novel, The Elected Member, and is the only Welsh person to have ever won the prize.
Celebrate Nos Galan Gaeaf with some Welsh gothic fiction.
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These five works of Welsh gothic literature will not only help you explore Wales through the macabre but are likely to give you a good scare too.
The Brecon Beacons National Park is now officially only known by its native Welsh name.
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The mountain range in south Wales is now officially only known by its native Welsh-language name
Richard Price reading a letter dated 1784 from his friend, Benjamin Franklin.
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He was an important philosopher, mathematician and social reformer of his time. But Richard Price was subsequently written out of history.
Welsh through and through.
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Since 1997, the ways people in the UK define their nationality has rapidly changed.
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A linguistic equality expert argues the case for protecting the Welsh from prejudice.
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Rolling, lyrical Welsh poetry could be just what Wales needs to engage with its own culture.
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Wales’s patron saint David was nearly lost to the Welsh.
Edward Thomas used English to write about the spirit of Wales.
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Poet Edward Thomas took from the traditions of Wales, and the beauty of the land to describe the horrors of war.
Pantglas Primary School, in the Welsh town of Aberfan, buried under a mountain of pit waste in 1966.
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The 1966 event that killed 144 people in a small Welsh town is still shaping national identity today.