Other popular works were produced, such as almanacs, and there was a popular revival of eisteddfodau, a cultural festival dating back to medieval times. As literacy began to spread throughout the ...

The Iron Mountain Trail is a figure-of-eight walk, with the pond as the centre of its loop - which means you can divide it up into two walks rather than one and use 'Keeper's Pond' as your base for ...

Also known as Hu the Mighty, Hu Gadarn was said to have brought the Welsh to Britain from Deffrobani (the Summer Country).

It is a love story between Geraint and Enid. Early on in the tale the pair marry and settle down, but rumors spread that ...

However, the story of Arthur's sword, Excalibur, may have had its roots in Welsh literature. While it was not said to have ...

Similar to Chrétien de Troyes' romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail, Peredur son of Efrawg is one of the three Welsh ...

Morgan's Bible removed certain South Walian words in Salesbury's translation, such as caser (hail), and replaced them with ...

As the Welsh kingdoms developed behind the Dyke, the Welsh language began to assume official status. Whereas previously Latin ...

Welsh was actively discouraged in schools by means including the hated Welsh Not. The mid-19th century was a turbulent period ...

"This isn't any old book. It's got some pages missing and my brother knocked his drink over it, but still it's important to me. It reminds me of a special day when I was seven years old. Altogether, ...

Roald Dahl's career as a children's author began after the birth of his children. As Ophelia notes in the clip above, Dahl's books stemmed from the stories that he would often tell his children before ...

Roald Dahl spent two years at the Cathedral School in Llandaff, from the age of seven to nine. He then moved to St Peter's boarding school in Weston-super-Mare and suffered from homesickness. At the ...