The incredible story of Swansea Jack

The Wreckers of Cefn Sidan​ 'Gwyr-y-Bwyelli Bach' The people with little hatchets. The Captain of the La Jeune Emma peered through the...

The widow, Marged, lived on the south bank of Afon Mynach. For company she kept a little dog and a cow. Each morning, as the sun’s...

In the Welsh legends Arthur’s sword Excalibur was ‘Caledfwlch.’ In the stories the sword was used to kill an Irish king.

The shepherd spent his days on the mountains of Llangattock. It was a solitary life, wet and cold in winter, hot and dry in summer. Each...

'Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread… because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread.' The Rhyme...

Many years ago in the village of Llanddeusant in the county of Carmarthenshire a young man lived with his mother. Their home was...

These signs have mark’d me extraordinary; And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men. King Henry IV -...

"... you the last I write of but the first and greatest in evil, more than many in ability but also in malice, more generous in giving...

Beneath a rocky outcrop, topped by Carreg Cennen Castle, there is a cave that reaches deep into the bowels of the earth. Within this cold...

A short story reproduced from my anthology 'A Walk in The Woods' Thomas Jones was a farmer and, like other farmers in the valley, he wore...

Hen ddwyediad lleol – ‘Tri pheth o Fawddwy a ddaw, Dyn cas, nod cas, a glaw’. Old local saying – ‘Three things come from Mawddwy, hateful...

After conquering the Silure, the last resisting Welsh tribe, in AD 76, Governor Frontinus began the next phase of Roman occupation;...

It was Sunday morning and Llandegla Parish Church was full. The congregation waited, patiently at first and then with increasing...

Peregrine was a fisherman, like his father and his grandfather before him, a hard workingman used to the harsh life of working the nets...

In the early 1800s Montgomery was a thriving market town. A plaque on Broad Street tells us that in 1840 over 50 tradesmen were based in...

I belong to a writer's group in Llandovery whose ages range from seventeen to even older than me - and I'm a fossil. Last year the group,...

In 1702, a new crown treasury department was established, the Salt Office. A tax on salt had existed since 1644 but an expensive war with...

Fluellen: "If your Majesty is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their...

After the Romans departed, Wales split into small kingdoms. One of them was the kingdom of Seisyllwg. Ruled from Dinefwr (Llandeilo),...