In a year dominated by the Olympics, it has been another gripping 12 months of sporting drama in Wales. There has been agony ...

Welsh was actively discouraged in schools by means including the hated Welsh Not. The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh history. Popular risings and riots broke out across the country.

This is true but it was not at the expense of people's Welshness. Throughout modern history most Welsh people had a dual sense of nationality that drew on both Wales and Britain. The Second World ...

Between AD 650 and 750, Britain's lowland zone became firmly English. Even in southern Scotland, most of the Brythonic or Welsh kingdoms came under English or Anglian control. Yet before that ...