Welsh History Podcast

The Fosse Way is a mighty road from Lincoln to Exeter which acts as a the spine of the Roman campaign a bridge between two legions and we are going to talk about it today.

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In this episode we are going to Bethesda. And we are going to tell the story of the Great Strike at the Penrhyn Quarry, which began on the twenty second of November 1900 and did not end until November 1903.

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By Summers, Alfred Day & Son, lithographer. - This image is available from the National Library of Wales You can view this image in its original context on the NLW Catalogue, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41997418

By W.J. Parry - "Chwareli a chwarelwyr", Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11623385

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At the height of Wale's economic power King Coal ran much of the Welsh valleys. But that success came at a price and we are going to talk about the negligence that led to the Senghenydd mining disaster.

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Claudius may have accepted all the surrenders and made his way back to Rome but there was still a lot of work to do. And it was just the beginning.

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It was at a time when many were considering with concern the role of children in society and protecting them from having to work early in life. With it came a new sense that literacy was critical in this new age.

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