Episode 267 – The Rise of Reading Rooms
It was at a time when many were considering with concern the role of children in society and protecting them from having to work early in li...
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Welsh History Podcast 10th Anniversary
A little belated but it has been 10 years since I started the podcast so I wanted to chat about it. Follow us on social media:Instagram, Blu...
Episode 266 - Advancing the Classroom
From 1890 to 1913 Wales saw a revolution in the classroom. As education into secondary schools were advancing for the first time for middle...
Roman Britain Episode 10 - Ad Terras Ignotas
It has finally arrived, the Romans under Claudius begin the invasion of Britain. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky: @Welshhistor...
Episode 265 - The Social Gospel Movement in Wales
From the pulpits to the pits ideas about how to protect the poor, support the worker and represent Christian values were changing in a new m...
Episode 264- The Tonypandy Riots and Labour Unrest
In this episode we are heading deep into the Rhondda Valley — into the smoke and the steam, the solidarity and the fury — for one of the mos...
Roman Britain Episode 09 - Verba Rerum Testes
In this episode we focus in on the authors of Roman Britain's history and how they defined our understanding. Follow us on social media: Ins...
Episode 263 – The Worst in the World
Railways crisscrossed across Wales. It was a network designed not for Wales, but through Wales. A network that tied valleys to ports, and po...
Episode 262 - Healing the Valleys, Medicine in Wales
A time before the NHS, before universal care, before the idea that healthcare might be something guaranteed. And yet, in this period, we beg...
Roman Britain Episode 08 - Consilium Imperii
In 41 CE, Rome did something unexpected. It made an emperor out of a man who had spent most of his life being ignored. That man was Claudius...
Episode 261 - 1905, The Season That Made a Nation
By the early twentieth century, rugby was not simply popular in Wales. It was emotional infrastructure. It was civic ritual. And in 1905 a g...
Roman Britain Episode 7 - Britannia Divisa
Because we have so little written history it might seem that Britain was relatively static in the Iron Age. Britain, however, was not frozen...
Episode 260 - Daughters of Cambria: The Welsh Women’s Movement
For centuries, the history of Wales was written as a history of men—of coal miners, ironmasters, and preachers. But by the 1880s, a quiet re...
Freeform Episode 23 - The Return
Jonathan has returned to the UK and talks about what he wants to do now that he has returned. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky:...
Episode 259 - The National Voice
Between 1900 and 1914, Wales was not simply becoming modern. Wales was arguing about what modernity meant, and whether it had to come at the...
Roman Britain Episode 6 – Forma Imperii
Before Rome ever landed soldiers on British shores in 43 CE, Britain had already been measured, judged, and classified. Not morally, but adm...
Episode 258 - The Horrors of War
This episode we talk about the human cost of the Boer War and give a couple of examples of those who logged their witness of what was being...
Episode 257 - The First Modern British Conflict - The Boer War
Today we turn to a conflict that shaped the final years of the Victorian era and left deep marks on towns and villages across Wales. The Boe...
Roman Britain Episode 5 – Imperium Ante Provinciam
This episode looks at why Britain was left alone, how Roman civil wars reshaped imperial priorities, and why the invasion of Britain under C...
Episode 256 – 1899 The Last Year of a Century
This episode looks at Wales at the end of the 19th century and explores how the country entered the modern age and how world events influenc...