Local history

Description A group of us came together in October 2008 as a result of the result consultation meetings that were held in Llansilin, Penybontfawr a...

Description Cwmni Theatr Maldwyn was founded in preparation for the 1981 Machynlleth National Eisteddfod. Forty years later, it continues to give m...

Description Llansilin is a village in the north-east corner of Powys.  Though the border with England is less than a mile away, the Welsh language ...

Description Elfed Thomas, ex-headmaster of Pontrobert school, once wrote that Pontrobert was very much like heaven - you don't see the place until ...

Description At the opening of Llanfyllin’s first secondary school in 1900, the local rector defended education against those who opposed its spread...

Description An Oswestry Miscellany comprises twenty-five chapters, each focussed on a specific aspect of Oswestry's history, including some fascina...

Description Oswestry: a local history is based upon articles written by the author for Oswestry & Border Counties Advertizer, the Country Quest...

Description This book traces the remarkable and sometimes hazardous rise of a Welsh family of the Anglo-Welsh borderland, from relatively humble or...

Description For nearly 500 years the Marcher lordships and their lords were at the centre of events that affected the history of England and Wales,...

Description Oswestry: Parish, Church and People is based on a series of articles prepared by the author for St Oswald's monthly parish magazine in ...

Description In A Second Oswestry Miscellany, John Pryce-Jones considers a wide variety of aspects of Oswestry's history, from king Oswald through t...