Many clues are revealed about people’s sleep thanks to Vicar Rhys Prichard’s poetry from the 1600s.
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Bard Hedd Wyn was killed in action in France in 1917.
The mountain range in south Wales is now officially only known by its native Welsh-language name
No new poems, but plenty of insights into the development of Thomas’s style.
Gwerful Mechain was a medieval woman with a modern sensibility and her whip-smart poetry is just as rude, crude and powerful today
From speaking out over domestic abuse in medieval times to telling the realities of war, these female poets present a very different version of Welsh life.
Dylan Thomas’s early short stories were shocking, obscene, and a sign of things to come
Rolling, lyrical Welsh poetry could be just what Wales needs to engage with its own culture.
At one point, the Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Bretons and northern English were all “Kymry” - so what changed?
It’s been 680 years since the last princess of Wales born to reigning monarchs in the country walked the earth.
