
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...
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From 1890 to 1913 Wales saw a revolution in the classroom. As education into secondary schools were advancing for the first time for middle...

It has finally arrived, the Romans under Claudius begin the invasion of Britain. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky: @Welshhistor...

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...

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...

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...

Railways crisscrossed across Wales. It was a network designed not for Wales, but through Wales. A network that tied valleys to ports, and po...

A time before the NHS, before universal care, before the idea that healthcare might be something guaranteed. And yet, in this period, we beg...

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...

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...

Because we have so little written history it might seem that Britain was relatively static in the Iron Age. Britain, however, was not frozen...

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...

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:...

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...

Before Rome ever landed soldiers on British shores in 43 CE, Britain had already been measured, judged, and classified. Not morally, but adm...

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...

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...

This episode looks at why Britain was left alone, how Roman civil wars reshaped imperial priorities, and why the invasion of Britain under C...

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...

Jon sits down to talk about some changes coming to the podcast and how the past shapes the future of Welsh History. Follow us on social medi...

The last decade of the nineteenth century was a period of immense change across Wales. It was a decade shaped by industry, migration, global...