Wales

The Dissolution of the Monasteries is a well-worn tale. Are we getting the whole story?

Divining disaster at Aberfan and beyond, in subjects from nocebos to lost cosmonauts.

A blend of fatalism and hope in 20th century Wales.

Four historians consider whether the traditional Whig history of Britain, as one of evolutionary political progress, has ever been challenged by events. 

Who was responsible for one of the great surviving objects of the Middle Ages?

Should one of the greatest of Welsh treasures be returned to the country in which it was found? David R. Howell investigates.

Since before Roman times, writes Marjorie Sykes, pearl-fishing has been practised in North Wales, Cumberland and Perth.

John R. Guy introduces the soldier, churchman, and Royalist Fellow of New College who served Russia and Sweden during Cromwell’s years of power, and who returned to post-Restoration Britain to become a prominent parson in the Church of Wales.

C.A. Usher describes how, during the thirteenth century, the divided Principality of Wales succumbed to English Conquest.