Location of Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Location of Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Dorothy Miles, a pioneer of sign language in arts, education and broadcasting, died 30 years ago. Now HistoryPoints has placed QR codes outside her childhood home in Rhyl so that anyone can use their smartphone to discover her remarkable ...
[More]Centuries before the Levelling Up Fund and other grants for under-privileged areas, Queen Anne set up a bounty scheme to enable poor clergymen to receive steady incomes. Capel Curig's churchwardens successfully applied in 1740 and acquired Bryntyrch ...
[More]The diary of Abiel Folger, one of the American settlers who developed Milford Haven, records that her husband Timothy cut whale bone in his last years. A relative of Benjamin Franklin, he was a whaling-ship captain but was ostracised in Nantucket for ...
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