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Swansea slum to Swedish palace
Mar 1, 2019Lillian Davies began her life in what was considered to be slum housing in Garden Street, Swansea, now the southern area of the Quadrant shopping centre. Before her death in 2013, she lived in royal palaces for decades ...
[More]Wales' first female lawyer
Feb 20, 2019Agnes Twiston Hughes broke the glass ceiling of the legal profession in 1923 when she was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors - the first Welsh woman to be admitted. She became Principal of her father's practice in Conwy in ...
[More]Managing miners' boozing
Feb 14, 2019The colliery owners who built the workers' village of Oakdale, in Caerphilly county borough, didn't want drunkenness to mar the utopian living conditions, so they built an hotel in order to exert control over alcohol consumption. Magistrates approved ...
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