Welsh Biography

@WelshBiography

Dictionary of Welsh Biography containing over 5,000 biographies of prominent Welsh people. Trydar Cymraeg:

Aberystwyth, Wales
biography.wales
Joined July 2016
1,305 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @WelshBiography

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @WelshBiography

  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Nov 2018

    Here are some of the people who have been working hard to create the new ⁦ website ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩

    3 replies 5 retweets 21 likes
    Undo
  2. 26 minutes ago

    Lewis William Lewis (Llew Llwyfo), poet, novelist, and journalist was born in the village of , , 1831

    2 likes
    Undo
  3. Retweeted
    6 hours ago

    Also one of the first in

    'Mam o Nedd' (Margaret Coombe Tennant), delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations and
    2 retweets
    Undo
  4. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    31 Mar 1680: William Maurice, antiquary, collector and transcriber of manuscripts and books buried at Llansilin (then Denbighshire) (PLucas58)

    , and
    2 replies 9 retweets 7 likes
    Undo
  5. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    31 Mar 1406: Owain Glyn Dŵr issues the document of a assembly 'oppressed ... by barbarous Saxons', committing them to the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII

    and
    3 replies 15 retweets 36 likes
    Undo
  6. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    Not a new piece by , but a lovely, insightful one

    Replying to @powerandrea @angelcakepics
    Litherland is the camp where Hedd Wyn did his training in 1917. By July he was dead, killed at Pilkem Ridge, Passchendaele
    1 retweet 3 likes
    Undo
  7. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    Katheryn mother of 6 children from her first three marriages, is the ancestress of several important Welsh families, which is why she is remembered as the 'Mother of Wales'. She was the granddaughter of a natural son of Henry Tudor.

    On Mothering Sunday ay, here's an article about the most famous of all Welsh mothers, Katheryn of Berain, 'Mam Cymru', the Mother of Wales Image:
    2 retweets 2 likes
    Undo
  8. Retweeted
    11 hours ago
    Replying to and

    Hedd Wyn was awarded the chair posthumously at the held at 1917 'The Black Chair'

    1 retweet 4 likes
    Undo
  9. 9 hours ago

    'Mam o Nedd' (Margaret Coombe Tennant), delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations and

    9 retweets 10 likes
    Undo
  10. 11 hours ago

    Dai Rees, one of Wales' great golfers and a Ryder Cup hero was born in Font-y-gary, 1913

    Undo
  11. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    Local lass, of Have a read 👇

    On Mothering Sunday ay, here's an article about the most famous of all Welsh mothers, Katheryn of Berain, 'Mam Cymru', the Mother of Wales Image:
    4 retweets 7 likes
    Undo
  12. 14 hours ago

    On Mothering Sunday ay, here's an article about the most famous of all Welsh mothers, Katheryn of Berain, 'Mam Cymru', the Mother of Wales Image:

    1 reply 23 retweets 40 likes
    Undo
  13. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    Litherland is the camp where Hedd Wyn did his training in 1917

    3rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Litherland Camp 1915
    1 retweet 3 likes
    Undo
  14. 23 hours ago

    The farmer, language poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales was born at Tre'r-ddôl, 1934

    4 retweets 4 likes
    Undo
  15. Retweeted
    Mar 30
    Replying to

    Winnow aka Winwallo features in Norfolk weather law for March. “First comes David, Next is Chad, then comes Winnow blowing like mad.”

    1 retweet 2 likes
    Undo
  16. Mar 30

    Robert Ferrar, Bishop of St Davids was burnt to death for heresy at square 1555

    11 retweets 7 likes
    Undo
  17. Mar 30

    Hywel Harris underwent a religious conversion while listening to a sermon by the Rev. Pryce Davies in parish church 1735

    2 retweets 4 likes
    Undo
  18. Mar 29

    The Welsh baritone and opera singer Delme Bryn-Jones was born at , , 1934

    2 retweets 2 likes
    Undo
  19. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    29 Mar 1672: d. Griffith Williams of Treflan near , peppery pamphleteering Bishop of at (eebo) Early in his career in his wife took him to court for neglect

    , , and 5 others
    2 replies 6 retweets 8 likes
    Undo
  20. Mar 29

    It's the feast-day of Saint Gwynllyw

    1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    Undo
  21. Retweeted
    Mar 28

    Save the date! WELSH MANUSCRIPTS 800–1800: a conference to celebrate the publication of A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes by Daniel Huws 9–11 SEPTEMBER 2020 In and , Aberystwyth More information will be posted soon on

    32 retweets 35 likes
    Undo

@WelshBiography hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·