Wales

Are beavers beasts or fish? For medieval philosophers, this was an important question with implications for the dining table.

There was no law permitting cremation, but there was no law against it either. On 13 January 1884, a Welsh druid took the matter to trial.

Rebecca’s radical rural protests consumed South Wales in the 19th century. Who – or what – was she?

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.