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The bardic black chair of 1876
Jul 23, 2015The posthumous bardic chair for Hedd Wyn, killed in the First World War, was famously covered with a black cloth, but that was not the first time the National Eisteddfod ...
[More]A palmist and a lovelorn governess
Jul 18, 2015Madame Marriott, palmist at Cardiff's Royal Arcade, was embroiled in a sensational court case in 1904 after a Swiss governess threatened to kill the priest she had fallen in love ...
[More]Discover graves of training-ship boys
Jul 12, 2015In Llandegfan churchyard, Anglesey, are the graves of more than 30 boys who died while inmates of the industrial training ship HMS Clio. One was killed by bullies, some ...
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