Wales

The distinctive polygon towers of Caernarfon Castle. (Photo by Gail Johnson/Getty Images)

History explorer: the conquest of Wales

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Podcast Brian Glanville

The World Cup story

Hever Castle. (Photo by: Prisma Bildagentur/UIG via Getty Images)

8 must-visit castles with Tudor connections

St David painting in stained glass window, Ceredigion, UK. Exact date unknown. (Photo by David Angel/Alamy Stock Photo)

19 things you didn’t know about St David and his day

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Bleddyn ap Cynfyn: the first Prince of Wales?

Rescue workers at the scene of the wrecked Pantglas Junior School at Aberfan, South Wales. (Getty Images)

Death under the black mountain: the Aberfan disaster

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The most popular historical figures you’ve (probably) never heard of

The famous Big Pit Mining Museum in South Wales

History explorer: Britain’s coal industry

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Charles VI of France (1380–1422)

The last Welsh Prince of Wales

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A scene from an early rugby union game

The history of rugby

A silhouette of troops of the 1st Australian Division during the First World War.

First World War

First World War quiz

Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

First World War

Shot at dawn: the First World War soldiers executed for desertion and cowardice

Welsh Labour politician Aneurin Bevan making a speech on the freedom of the press at a meeting of the National Council of Civil Liberties at Central Hall, Westminster, London, in 1942. (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

My history hero: Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan (1897–1960)

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Margam Park, Port Talbot