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Education pioneers remembered

May 18, 2019

A slate plaque was unveiled today at the former home of adult education pioneers Silyn and Mary Roberts in Tanygrisiau, near Blaenau Ffestiniog. HistoryPoints provided accompanying QR codes to enable ...

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From Gower to a South Pole grave

May 11, 2019

When visiting Rhossili, take a look inside the church to see memorials to Edgar Evans, who died on Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. The iciness of his memorial window contrasts with the ...

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Humble home of Nelson's Emma

May 4, 2019

Emma Hamilton mixed with the nobility and became famous as Lord Nelson's mistress and mother of his child, but her childhood home in Hawarden, Flintshire, was a simple thatched cottage. Her beauty turned heads and she modelled ...

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