Bard Hedd Wyn was killed in action in France in 1917.
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The Mari Lwyd and the plygain are two prominent Welsh traditions celebrated over Christmas and the new year.
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.
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 mountain range in south Wales is now officially only known by its native Welsh-language name
He was an important philosopher, mathematician and social reformer of his time. But Richard Price was subsequently written out of history.
Since 1997, the ways people in the UK define their nationality has rapidly changed.
A linguistic equality expert argues the case for protecting the Welsh from prejudice.
Rolling, lyrical Welsh poetry could be just what Wales needs to engage with its own culture.
Wales’s patron saint David was nearly lost to the Welsh.
Poet Edward Thomas took from the traditions of Wales, and the beauty of the land to describe the horrors of war.
The 1966 event that killed 144 people in a small Welsh town is still shaping national identity today.
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