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 revolution was brewing in the valleys and coastal towns. Welsh women were no longer content to be the "angels of the hearth." Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky: @Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacL...
Mar 09, 2026•34 min•Season 3Ep. 260
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: @Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?i...
Mar 02, 2026•24 min•Season 1Ep. 23
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 cost of Welsh language, Welsh institutions, and Welsh identity. Some of that argument happened in Parliament, through bills, speeches, and legislation. Some of it happened in newspapers, in chapels, at eisteddfodau, and in reading rooms. And some of it happened in verse, in voice, and in shared chorus. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky: @Welshhi...
Feb 16, 2026•30 min•Season 3Ep. 259
Before Rome ever landed soldiers on British shores in 43 CE, Britain had already been measured, judged, and classified. Not morally, but administratively. Follow us on social media:Instagram, Bluesky: @Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) So...
Feb 09, 2026•28 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 done in the name of the British Empire including the forced imprisonment of women and children into the first Concentration Camps. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky: @Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kev...
Feb 02, 2026•28 min•Season 3Ep. 258
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 Boer War, fought between 1899 and 1902, was a clash between the British Empire and the two Boer republics in South Africa. It was a conflict of imperial ambition, political controversy and human tragedy, and Wales was deeply involved in all of it. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: @Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wels...
Jan 19, 2026•29 min•Season 3Ep. 257
This episode looks at why Britain was left alone, how Roman civil wars reshaped imperial priorities, and why the invasion of Britain under Claudius was as much about survival in Rome as it was about power overseas. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commo...
Jan 12, 2026•31 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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 influenced daily life in towns, villages, ports, and industrial valleys. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: @Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attrib...
Jan 05, 2026•31 min•Season 3Ep. 256
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 media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: @Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.c...
Dec 22, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 22
The last decade of the nineteenth century was a period of immense change across Wales. It was a decade shaped by industry, migration, global tensions, political transformation, and cultural shifts. To contemporaries, the time felt restless, uncertain, and filled with possibility. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: @Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic I...
Dec 15, 2025•27 min•Season 3Ep. 255
This episode we are going to talk about the structures and configuration of the Roman Army that was about to invade Britain in 43 CE. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: htt...
Dec 08, 2025•34 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Wales was a nation on the move. Between 1880 and 1900, hundreds of thousands of people either left Welsh shores for opportunities abroad or arrived to seek work in the booming industrial valleys. This movement of people, both outward and inward, would reshape the population, language, and social character of Wales in profound ways. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshh...
Dec 01, 2025•26 min•Season 3Ep. 254
Rambling around the later half of the year and the holidays that surround it. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=U...
Nov 24, 2025•32 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this episode we discuss Wrexham and how it was established and how as an industrial town grew from a small market village. Thumbnail: Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 'Wrexham, Denbighshire', watercolour, ca.1780s. - http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1029038/watercolour/, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93297032 Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becomin...
Nov 17, 2025•27 min•Season 3Ep. 253
He came, he saw, he left... but what did Caesars arrival and departure actually influence iron age Britain. Did the Britons actually know about them and how much would this change their lives over the 90 years before Claudius. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Cr...
Nov 10, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3
From the mid-19th century to the eve of the Boer War, colonial scramble of colonial expansion created a con. And at the heart of it, we’ll find Welsh men as soldiers, politicians, missionaries, and emigrants, celebrating, shaping and questioning Britain’s imperial destiny. Cover Photo: the painting of The Battle of Rorkes Drift By Alphonse de Neuville - 5AFi-BKNCeU_VA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21997608 Follow u...
Nov 03, 2025•33 min•Season 3Ep. 252
Two weeks ago I travelled to England, as a preliminary visit before moving over in the next few months. Find out my time as a visitor. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: ht...
Oct 27, 2025•30 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Sitting at the edge of the Menai Strait, with Snowdonia rising behind it, Bangor has one of the longest continuous histories of any settlement in Britain. Photo of the Bangor Cathedral by Denis Egan from Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales - 002_8256_DxO. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod ...
Oct 20, 2025•32 min•Season 3Ep. 251
In the late summer of 55 BCE, Julius Caesar stood on the northern shores of Gaul, watching the restless waters of the Channel. Beyond those shifting waves rose the pale chalk cliffs of Britain, gleaming like a frontier to another world. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed ...
Oct 13, 2025•34 min•Season 1Ep. 2
The story of Women in Wales in the later part of the 19th century was a fight for social status and recognition of their contributions. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: h...
Oct 06, 2025•31 min
The British tribes lived their Iron Age lifestyle watching with growing concern what was happening across the water and they hoped to keep out of the coming conflict with the new force in their world Rome. It did not work out. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Cr...
Sep 29, 2025•39 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Between 1850 and 1900, Wales witnessed the birth and consolidation of organised labour. Trade unions, once fragile and easily suppressed, grew into powerful movements that reshaped politics and industry. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribut...
Sep 22, 2025•24 min•Season 3Ep. 249
This week we talk to Greg Thomas Creator and host of Welsh American Channel [Americanwyr Cymreig]. www.youtube.com/@WelshAmericanChannel Celebrating the significant contributions of Welsh immigrants to the Americas. This channel is intended to celebrate the significant historical and cultural contributions of Welsh immigrants to the Americas, and their modern descendants [Americanwyr Cymreig]. We will explore American history and the unique individual characters who have left an indelible legacy...
Sep 15, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 19
In the later half of the 1800s, Wales saw the birth of a modern higher education system. The universities that emerged during this period weren’t just academic institutions, rather they were symbols of national pride, engines of social mobility, and part of a broader cultural and political awakening across the country. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://p...
Sep 14, 2025•28 min•Season 3Ep. 247
Wales has been a part of some form of the now United Kingdom since 1284, over its history there have been spasms of discontent, and out right rebellion. It had been a while since a truly national movement but the flames were igniting as the embers are stirred. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Ke...
Sep 08, 2025•31 min•Season 3Ep. 248
Recently I had an opportunity to travel via a few methods and it got me thinking. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?is...
Sep 01, 2025•39 min
On the Ocean West of Gaul lied the secretive land of the Britons. And this is the story of how new conquerors brought the Island to heel. Before leaving it all 350 years later. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creati...
Aug 18, 2025•7 min•Ep. 1
From muddy fields, makeshift goalposts, and a sport just beginning to take root in the valleys and towns of Wales. This is the story of how football — or soccer, as some call it — made its first strides in Welsh life during the Victorian period. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is ...
Aug 11, 2025•45 min•Season 3Ep. 246
This week I walk you through some suggestions for Welsh History reading and content that got me started on this path. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech....
Aug 04, 2025•55 min•Season 1Ep. 17
With the arrival of Victorian railways and new labour legislation came the opportunity for everyday people to experience leisure and travel for the first time. Follow us on social media: Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter: Welshhistorypod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/welshhistorypodcast Please consider becoming a supporter at: http://patreon.com/WelshHistory Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/lic...
Jul 28, 2025•30 min
