# womenshistorymonth merthyrtydfil cyfarthfacastle welsh cefnllys radnorshire wales onthisday meirionethshire london wynnstay swansea welshamerica welshdiscoveries welshconnections yagym rhyl ww1 drawing welshartist jerwood ink welshart riot detail artistontwitter valerieganz miners coalmines art

Ymunwch â ni ar Fawrth 19 i beintio rhai o ferched arloesol Merthyr!

Join us this March 19 to paint some pioneering Merthyr women!

https://t.co/5GJYLG4VCs

0 1
2023-03-18

William Owen Pughe, linguist, lexicographer, grammarian, poet and antiquary who was regarded as the principal authority on the Welsh language and scholarship, was born in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant 1759 https://t.co/hvlhvO5VxZ

6 12
2022-08-07

William Owen Pughe, lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet died 1835 https://t.co/hvlhvO5VxZ

8 21
2022-06-04

William Williams, MP who called for 'an Inquiry... into the state of Education in ... Wales, especially into the means ... of acquiring a knowledge of the English tongue' - the Blue Books, died at Regent's Park, 1865 https://t.co/1g8l98sA61

3 5
2022-04-28

Edward Jones, ‘Bardd y Brenin’, harpist, historian, bard, antiquary, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music died 1824 https://t.co/OKzukSjJiA

5 10
2022-04-19

Ivor Novello,the composer, playwright, stage & film actor who died 1951
First appeared
in Feb. 1924 in The Rat
https://t.co/kqel1J4iW6

@

1 2
2022-03-07

A large part of mansion was burnt, destroying the valuable library of manuscripts 1858 https://t.co/sJ9X3DvUlN

6 10
2022-03-05

The conchologist and malacologist John Gwyn Jeffreys was born in 1809 https://t.co/yps8WWhmlB

1 3
2022-01-18

Edward Jones, ‘Bardd y Brenin’, harpist, historian, bard, antiquary, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music died 1824 https://t.co/OKzukSjJiA

7 11
2021-04-19

John Petts, artist and stained glass designer, who created the '#Wales window' to commemorate the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama when 4 young girls were killed, was born in Hornsey, London 1914 https://t.co/h2EP8BORqQ

7 14
2021-01-10

William Owen Pughe, linguist, lexicographer, grammarian, poet and antiquary who was regarded as the principal authority on the Welsh language and scholarship, was born in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant 1759 https://t.co/hvlhvOnwWz

8 10
2020-08-07

It is not generally known that America was originally discovered by the Welsh nearly nine hundred years ago. https://t.co/zForgtnikD

1 1
2020-05-26

Edward Jones, ‘Bardd y Brenin’, harpist, historian, bard, antiquary, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music died 1824 https://t.co/OKzukSjJiA

7 15
2020-04-19

Take a trip back in time to Rhyl's East parade in the 1880s! ⬇️
https://t.co/y68I6ARFYV

Creator: Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894)
Date: c. 1880
Collection: National Media Museum Collection

2 3
2019-12-14

Read how Captain Arthur Edwards from Blaenafon in south Wales oversaw the explosion of the first British mine on the Western Front in March 1915 ⬇️

https://t.co/gUSMV6NX8c
Via

3 4
2019-12-10

The artist Archibald Rees Griffiths (1902-1971) who made an important contribution to the artistic response to the traumatic experience of mining communities between the two world wars, died 1971 https://t.co/3lsV7KCE6O Image:

5 5
2019-04-02