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Workers’ rights, racism and extreme weather: Wales’ forgotten strike
Claire Boot explores how the long-forgotten Seaman's Strike of 1911 intersects with her personal landscape of South Wales
 • Dylan Moore
Cennin Pedr: the roots and reach of the wild daffodil
Esther Williams traces the story of Cymru's national flower from the wild west coast of Wales through China, Persia and Ancient Greece – and deep…
 • Dylan Moore
Closing time: last days in Cardiff, and why I edit
You know the scene.
 • Merlin Gable and Dylan Moore
Inside London's Welsh chapels: 'Singing the Lord's song in a strange land'
An encounter with an unexpected seam of Welsh culture in London spurs Rhys Underdown to explore the city's history of Welsh chapels
 • Dylan Moore
Pursuing Beauty: Tim Lewis and his legacy as a stained glass window artist
Sian Melangell Dafydd remembers the stained glass window from her schooldays that led her to discover the remarkable work of Tim Lewis, who has passed…
 • Dylan Moore
Cwlwm: a knotty retrospective
One year on from our launch, we look back at the articles we've published, and the ties that bind them together.
 • Dylan Moore
Cardiff Days Gone By: In the Heart of the Cambrian Metropolis
Dylan Moore reflects on twenty years writing about Cymru's capital city, and introduces his ambitious new project to write the Great Cardiff Novel
 • Dylan Moore
Square mile: finding freedom in bounded spaces
Grace Quantock explores her physical and psychic sense of place in the context of illness, industry, and a world in flames.
 • Dylan Moore
Down Your Local?: A life in public houses
Following a recent exhibition of his photographs of Newport pubs, John Briggs recounts a lifetime's transatlantic love affair with the charms of 'the…
 • Dylan Moore
Ideas Worth Pursuing: David Hurn in Profile
Following his Outstanding Contribution to Journalism award at the recent Wales Media Awards, Glenn Edwards profiles veteran Welsh photographer David…
 • Dylan Moore
In search of Gower Gold: recollections of a journey on foot
Rhys Underdown remembers a tall tale of a long journey through the Gower, past and present.
 • Dylan Moore
Escapades on the D Train: Welshman in New York
On the 81st anniversary of Dylan Thomas' death, Dylan Moore follows in the footsteps of both his namesakes through the bars of Greenwich Village
 • Dylan Moore
The Conservative Club: Looking for Ghosts in Llanelli
On the first anniversary of the release of his debut Local Fires, Joshua Jones revisits the photographs taken by Nik Roche for the book's potential…
 • Dylan Moore
The New Old North
Jasmine Donahaye travels in search of Rheged, the ancient Welsh kingdom belonging to the Hen Ogledd, which may or may not have been in Cumbria
 • Dylan Moore
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