The engineer Robert Stephenson was born in 1803. Stephenson built the Conwy Tubular Bridge in 1848 and the Britannia Bridge in 1849-50. Learn more about them on Coflein.

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William Henry (Bill) Smith, secretary of the Cardiff Grand Opera Society and 1st president of the Welsh National Opera Company was born in 1894 https://t.co/Z4j2OwM7Uc

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Maria Jane Williams of singer and harpist, and a pioneer in the field of folk music was born at Aberpergwm in the Valley, 1795 https://t.co/Gan6mLbJYa

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Absolutely love these new Irish stamps featuring front man 🖤

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Alun Sbardun Huws, musician and composer of some of the most popular pop songs was born in 1948 https://t.co/rJJAnDZZLz Image:

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Just 2 more weeks 2 c >15Sept amazing powerful beautiful retrospective of as curated by with tribute to I was just exclaiming WoW! on loop. Essential 🖤

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***NEW ARTICLE*** by in on Maria Jane Williams of in the Valley, singer and harpist, and a pioneer in the field of folk music https://t.co/Gan6mLtkPI

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Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was the unofficial leader of the abolitionist movement in Britain. With the London Committee, he lobbied Parliament for 2 decades to pass the Slave Trade Act of 1807, ending the transatlantic slave trade in the

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Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, one of Wales' most influential and versatile composers, was born in 1918 https://t.co/VYMq3GjwOW Image:

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John Blanke was a 16C black trumpeter in the royal courts. John is thought to be shown here in the Westminster Tournament Roll - a 60ft long illustrated manuscript of Henry VIII’s extravagant pageant held to mark the birth of his male child

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1803: Irish rebellion of 1803: In opposition to Acts of Union 1800, Robert Emmet led an armed outbreak with working classes, that was easily suppressed. Thomas Paliser Russell & James "Jemmy" Hope also leaders of it. Lasted just 1 day! . . .

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Enoch Rowland Jones, euphonium player and singer was born in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Valley 1912 https://t.co/K9ppqcDWAl

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Widojest Week 2019 | Day 4: Fairy Tale

“I had to,” he croaks back, voice foreign and miles away. “My parents… they were going to kill my parents.”

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Old Royal High School as seen from Regent Road, a 19th century neoclassical doric style building on Calton Hill in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland and landmark monument of the Greek Revival architecture in Scotland.

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“...to truly understand the American outlook in the 18th Century, it is necessary to learn about the British conflicts of the 17th Century - especially the English Civil War.”
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Today we launched the the digitsed versions of the Oram Diaries, written by father and son John and Arthur Oram (farmers & land agents from Mayo) who recorded life in Ireland during the mid-1800s to early 1900s

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