One of the first towns in Wales to petition for the abolition of British colonial slavery was Usk. The town hall was the venue in 1792 for a meeting where lively concern was expressed for the "unparalleled miseries" of African victims of the slave ...
Today is the 120th anniversary of the start of the three-year 'Great Strike' at Penrhyn slate quarry, Bethesda. Marking the occasion, HistoryPoints has created a self-guided tour of 19 QR-code sites which explain how the quarry and industrial disputes ...
When a humble quarryman dared to sue Colonel Pennant of Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, for confiscating his fishing net, the Colonel hired no less a person than Britain's solicitor-general as counsel. Yet the jury ...