Elizabeth Phillips Hughes of Carmarthen was a pioneer of girls' education in Wales and Cambridge and even taught in a Japanese university, but her own formal education hadn't started until she was a teenager. As a child she ...
In the days of sail power, only the bravest seamen voyaged around Cape Horn, but ship's captain Robert Thomas of Caernarfon did it many times, breaking the record for the fastest Cardiff to San Francisco sailing in 1887. He died in San ...
The Wartski shop in Llandudno was already famous for supplying expensive jewellery to wealthy clients when objects from the family of the murdered Russian Tzar were displayed there in 1935. Eggs and other masterpieces by Carl Fabergé were among the ...