Blog Profile / Wales History
| URL : | http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/waleshistory/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / History | |
| Posts on Regator: | 349 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.5 | |
| Archived Since: | July 7, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
New work celebrates the movement of pregnant women
Not so long ago in history a heavily pregnant woman was a rare sight,
as she was usually ordered into her "confinement" some weeks before the
bump became enormous. Now a new dance piece is aiming to
challenge conventional images of pregnancy by featuring two women
dancers as they near the final months...
The Joy Formidable - US tour diary 2013, part three
It's fierce. This storm has claws. And fangs.
Gary Griffiths on opera and performing in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013
In June, the biennial Cardiff Singer of the World Competition
will take place. This prestigious, international contest will see some
of the finest voices, on the brink of global careers, converge upon
Cardiff to compete for the title of Cardiff Singer of the World 2013.
Welsh Mountain Zoo celebrates its 50th birthday
Humboldt penguins, emperor tamarins and Bactrian camels may not be
indigenous to north Wales, but if you know where to look you can find
hem all, and more, in a small pocket of a Welsh coastal town.
An X-Ray report to take your breath away
Despite the weather having become a standing joke in the X-Ray office, we'll be out across Wales for the next six weeks, come rain or shine.
The search for William Yolen Williams
I gladly gathered up the gauntlet and went in search of extra details regarding the mysterious William Yolen Williams.
The search for equilibrium
The show is about the music packed around my biscuit crumbs - and this week's spread features some corkers.
Centenary performance takes action into auditorium
This year marks a century since the Park and Dare Theatre in Treorchy,
Rhondda, opened thanks to funding from local miners who wanted a centre
for the arts at the heart of their community.
BBC Radio Wales Music Day: 19 April 2013
2013 was the fourth year of Radio Wales Music Day, and I'm so thrilled o say the idea, the concept and the event keeps on growing.
Monty the osprey returns to Cors Dyfi
Monty the male osprey at the Dyfi Osprey Project has recently returned to his his old nest site following a winter spent on the west coast of Africa.
The death of Henry Tudor
21 April may not seem of major significance to most people. Yet on that day in 1509 Henry Tudor, King Henry VII of England, died at Windsor.
Academics, poets and musicians unite in evening to mark RS Thomas' centenary
This year marks a century since the birth of the celebrated Welsh poet and priest RS Thomas. Famed for his uncompromising and often stark representations of religion and the Welsh landscape, Thomas was also passionate about the Welsh nationalist cause and a fan of the visual arts.
Very best of Celtic dramatic talent to be showcased at festival
For those of you who missed some of the best productions to come out of
Wales over the past year or so, this month and next there is a chance to
revisit several of them as part of Clwyd Theatre Cymru's Celtic
Festival.
The Welsh girl who loved and lost James Bond
It's 15 years today since Welsh singing legend Dorothy Squires died aged 83.
The Welshman who helped Alf Ramsey win the World Cup
John Elsworthy might be regarded as the best Welsh footballer never to gain an international cap for his country.
The Joy Formidable: 'We've always felt like outcasts'
I'm vibrating with excitement at the prospect of seeing them play sold out halls in New York, Washington and Baltimore. Thousands of Stateside music-lovers celebrating a music forged in the hills where I grew up.
Performance poet is next Young People's Laureate
When Martin Daws was a schoolboy he, like so many other young people, had little interest in the poetry he was taught in school. But, as a lover of musical lyrics and inspired early on by artists like Bowie and Dylan, as well as hip hop and rap, he soon learned that the scope of poetic verse reached...
Is the snare drummer OK?
Technically, it is exceptionally demanding. The viola part is incredibly tiring; the seemingly endless repeated rhythms that underpin the entire texture of the music require a great level of articulation
Coldest March since 1962
It's official, March 2013 was the coldest in Wales since 1962 and the 2nd coldest since records began in 1910
Group of senior citizens to act as senate in Camus' Caligula
When Albert Camus wrote his absurd play-within-a-play Caligula, he hoped
o show the chaos caused by the Roman emperor's obsession with the
impossible. A new production sees a supporting cast of 65-80-year-olds from
Cardiff acting as the Senate who decide Caligula's fate.